书目名称 | Militarized Youth | 副标题 | The Children of the | 编辑 | Johanna Higgs | 视频video | | 概述 | Provides insight into the child soldiering with a specific focus on children in Colombia, an under-studied group of militarized children.Brings together in-depth interviews with ethnographic fieldwork | 图书封面 |  | 描述 | .Based on ethnographic fieldwork and interviews from across Colombia—including former child guerillas, former hostages of the guerilla organization, mothers of child soldiers, and humanitarian aid workers— this volume explores the experiences of children involved with the Colombian guerilla group the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (Farc). Going beyond the predominant humanitarian perspectives on child soldiers, Johanna Higgs delves into the specific social and cultural aspects of the Colombian conflict to give a contextualized, culturally relevant understanding of the processes of both militarization and demobilization of children, deploying the theoretical lens of “lifeworlds.” In so doing, Higgs not only provides insight into children’s involvement in conflict in Colombia, but presents a clear case for a move away from homogenized understandings of “child soldiers,” thus far dominated by viewpoints from industrialized Western nations. Tying together perspectivesfrom anthropology, sociology, psychology, politics, and international development, Higgs provides not only a much-needed examination of how children are militarized, soldiering in the Farc context, and demilit | 出版日期 | Book 2020 | 关键词 | child soldiers; children in war; Lifeworlds; childhood; child development; development studies; Colombian | 版次 | 1 | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-23686-1 | isbn_softcover | 978-3-030-23685-4 | isbn_ebook | 978-3-030-23686-1 | copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerl |
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