TY  - GEN
T1  - Love and violence in Sierra Leone : mediating intimacy after conflict
T2  - international African library ;
A1  - Schneider, Luisa T. (Luisa Theresia), 1991-
LA  - English
PP  - Cambridgef ; New York, NY
PB  - Cambridge University Press
YR  - 2025
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/Cambridge_open_access_CR9781009532990
AB  - In the decades following the civil war that took place in Sierra Leone between 1991 and 2002, new laws were passed to rebuild the state, and to prevent rape, teenage pregnancy and domestic violence. In this ethnography, Luisa T. Schneider explores the intricate semantic, empirical and socio-legal dynamics of love and violence in post-conflict Sierra Leone, challenging the oversimplification of these phenomena. Schneider underscores the limitations of imposing singular interpretations on love and violence, advocating for a nuanced, phenomenological approach that reveals how state and institutional attempts to regulate violence and loving relationships without considering local lived experience and meaning-making can yield negative consequences. By analysing how love and violence are historically constituted, experienced, and (re)produced across personal, social, legal, and political levels, this book critiques the construction of violence within gendered sexual relationships by development agencies, law makers and politicians, urging them to engage with local knowledge and experience. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
OP  - 264
NO  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 28 Jan 2025).
CN  - HV6626.23.S44 S45 2025
SN  - 9781009532990 (ebook)
SN  - 9781009533034 (hardback)
SN  - 9781009533003 (paperback)
SN  - 9781009533034
KW  - Intimate partner violence : Sierra Leone.
KW  - Sexual assault : Law and legislation : Sierra Leone.
KW  - Sierra Leone : Social conditions : 1961-
ER  -