The eleven-year civil war in Sierra Leone from 1991 to 2002 was incomprehensibly brutal - it is estimated that half of all female refugees were raped and many thousands were killed. While the ...publicity surrounding sexual violence helped to create a general picture of women and girls as victims of the conflict, there has been little effort to understand female soldiers' involvement in, and experience of, the conflict. Female Soldiers in Sierra Leone draws on interviews with 75 former female soldiers and over 20 local experts, providing a rare perspective on both the civil war and post-conflict development efforts in the country. Megan MacKenzie argues that post-conflict reconstruction is a highly gendered process, demonstrating that a clear recognition and understanding of the roles and experiences of female soldiers are central to both understanding the conflict and to crafting effective policy for the future.
This collection examines the British Army's part-time and auxiliary forces of the Georgian period, as well as looking at the men both during their service and once they had been discharged.
Tragically, violence and armed conflict have become commonplace in the lives of many children around the world. Not only have millions of children been forced to witness war and its atrocities, but ...many are drawn into conflict as active participants. Nowhere has this been more evident than in Sierra Leone during its 11-year civil war. Drawing upon in-depth interviews and focus groups with former child soldiers of Sierra Leone's rebel Revolutionary United Front, Myriam Denov compassionately examines how child soldiers are initiated into the complex world of violence and armed conflict. She also explores the ways in which the children leave this world of violence and the challenges they face when trying to renegotiate their lives and self-concepts in the aftermath of war. The narratives of the Sierra Leonean youth demonstrate that their life histories defy the narrow and limiting portrayals presented by the media and popular discourse.
Before Rosa Parks and the March on Washington, four African American women risked their careers and freedom to defy the United States Army over segregation. Women Army Corps (WAC) privates Mary ...Green, Anna Morrison, Johnnie Murphy, and Alice Young enlisted to serve their country, improve their lives, and claim the privileges of citizenship long denied them. Promised a chance at training and skilled positions, they saw white WACs assigned to those better jobs and found themselves relegated to work as orderlies. In 1945, their strike alongside fifty other WACs captured the nation's attention and ignited passionate debates on racism, women in the military, and patriotism. Glory in Their Spirit presents the powerful story of their persistence and the public uproar that ensued. Newspapers chose sides. Civil rights activists coalesced to wield a new power. The military, meanwhile, found itself increasingly unable to justify its policies. In the end, Green, Morrison, Murphy, and Young chose court-martial over a return to menial duties. But their courage pushed the segregated military to the breaking point "and helped steer one of American's most powerful institutions onto a new road toward progress and justice.
Race after Hitler Fehrenbach, Heide
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Tells the story of how troubled race relations among American occupation soldiers, and black-white mixing within Germany, unexpectedly shaped German notions of race after 1945. This book explores how ...racial ideologies are altered through transnational contact accompanying war and regime change in the most intimate areas of sex and reproduction.
El ejército romano y sus soldados (legionarios y/o auxiliares) fueron el mejor ejemplo de disciplina y eficacia en combate durante la Antigüedad. Integraron un ejército patriótico, no mercenario, y ...con profundo sentido del deber. Muchos soldados indígenas, reclutados por todo el Imperio y abundantes en el NW de Hispania, formaron parte de sus fuerzas como tropas auxiliares (auxilia) en alas de caballería y cohortes de infantería, o bien en grupos mixtos (cohortes equifafae) . Tales fuerzas auxiliares sirvieron allí donde eran necesarias (límites fronterizos) y sufrieron traslados (dislocaciones) en función de las necesidades militares romanas. The Roman army and his soldiers (legionary or auxiliary) were the best example during the antiquity of discipline and efficiency in combat. They integrated a patriotic, albeit not mercenary, army with deep sense of duty. Many indigenous soldiers recruited across the whole Empire, and abundant in the northwest of Roman Spain, served as auxiliary troops (auxilia) in wings of cavalry and cohorts of infantry or mixed groups (cohortes equitatae) . Such auxiliary forces served where they were necessary (frontier limits) and they suffered movements (dislocations) depending on such military needs. L'exèrcit romà i els seus soldats (legionaris i/o auxiliars) van ser el millor exemple de disciplina i eficàcia en combat durant l’Antiguitat. Van integrar un exèrcit patriòtic, no mercenari, i amb profund sentit del deure. Molts soldats indígenes, reclutats per tot l'lmperi i abundants en el NW d'Hispània, van formar part de les seves forces com a tropes auxiliars (auxilia) en ales de cavalleria i cohorts d'infanteria, o bé en grups mixtes (cohortes equitatoe). Tals forces auxiliars van servir allí on foren necessàries (límits fronterers) i van patir tras llats (dislocacions) en funció de les necessitats militars romanes.
Throughout the twentieth century, American male soldiers returned home from wars with foreign-born wives in tow, often from allied but at times from enemy nations, resulting in a new, official ...category of immigrant: the allied war bride. These brides began to appear en masse after World War I, peaked after World War II, and persisted through the Korean and Vietnam Wars. GIs also met and married former enemy women under conditions of postwar occupation, although at times the US government banned such unions.In this comprehensive, complex history of war brides in 20th-century American history, Susan Zeiger uses relationships between American male soldiers and foreign women as a lens to view larger issues of sexuality, race, and gender in United States foreign relations. Entangling Alliances draws on a rich array of sources to trace how war and postwar anxieties about power and national identity have long been projected onto war brides, and how these anxieties translate into public policies, particularly immigration.
Navigating terrains of war Vigh, Henrik E
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Through the concept of "social navigation," this book sheds light on the mobilization of urban youth in West Africa. Social navigation offers a perspective on praxis in situations of conflict and ...turmoil. It provides insights into the interplay between objective structures and subjective agency, thus enabling us to make sense of the opportunistic, sometimes fatalistic and tactical ways in which young people struggle to expand the horizons of possibility in a world of conflict, turmoil and diminishing resources.
