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War and Embodied Memory: Becoming Disabled Sierra Leone
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War and Embodied Memory: Becoming Disabled Sierra Leone
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War and Embodied Memory: Becoming Disabled Sierra Leone
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This book describes how an amputee and war-wounded community was created after a decade long conflict (1991-2002) in Sierra Leone. Beginning with a general socio-cultural and historical analysis of what is understood by impairment and disability, it also explains how disability was politically created both during the conflict and post-conflict, as violence became part of the everyday. Despite participating in the neoliberal rebuilding of the nation state, ex-combatants and the security of the nation were the government's main priorities, not amputee and war-wounded people.