9 Beyond Struggle and Aid: Children’s Identities in a Palestinian Refugee Camp in Jordan

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. List of Acronyms ix
5. Introduction xi
6. Part I The Contexts of War
7. 1 Separated Children CARE AND SUPPORT IN CONTEXT 1
8. 2 Cultural Disruption and the Care of Infants in Post-war Mozambique 23
9. Part II: Vulnerability and Resilience among Adolescent Girls
10. 3 The Sexual Vulnerability of Adolescent Girls during Civil War in Teso, Uganda 43
11. 4 A Neglected Perspective ADOLESCENT GIRLS’ EXPERIENCES OF THE KOSOVO CONFLICT OF 1999 63
12. Part III: What is a Child?
13. 5 The Use of Patriarchal Imagery in the Civil War in Mozambique and its Implications for the Reintegration of Child Soldiers 85
14. 6 Girls with Guns: Narrating the Experience of War of FRELIMO’s ‘Female Detachment’ 105
15. 7 Children, Impunity and Justice: Some Dilemmas from Northern Uganda 130
16. Part IV Children’s Narratives
17. 8 Children in the Grey Spaces Between War and Peace: The Uncertain Truth of Memory Acts 143
18. 9 Beyond Struggle and Aid: Children’s Identities in a Palestinian Refugee Camp in Jordan 167
19. Part V: Research Methodology and Methods
20. 10 Researching Young People’s Experiences of War: Participatory Methods and the Trauma Discourse in Angola 187
21. 11 Fluid Research Fields: Studying Excombatant Youth in the Aftermath of the Liberian Civil War 209
22. 12 Anthropology Under Fire: Ethics, Researchers and Children in War 237
23. Postscript
24. 13 ‘Where Wings Take Dream’: on Children in the Work of War and the War of Work 259
25. Notes on Contributors 267
26. Index 271