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The myth of international protection : war and survival in Congo / Claudia Seymour.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: California series in public anthropologyPublisher: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2019]Copyright date: ©2019Description: xiii, 174 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780520299832 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9780520299849 (paperback)
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: Myth of international protectionDDC classification:
  • 362.7 23
LOC classification:
  • HV455.5 SEY
Contents:
A beginning -- Outrages in Congo -- Surviving violence -- Embodying violence -- Navigating violence -- Meanings of violence -- The myth of international protection.
Summary: "This book covers more than a decade of child protection work and ethnographic field research in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It tells two stories: one of the entrenched violences survived by young people and their daily struggles to cope with deepening poverty and blocked aspirations; the other, a personal journey that begins with the will to do good and ends with the realization of how international aid contributes to greater harm. It offers a new perspective to reframe how the world sees the DRC, and urges global audiences to consider their own roles in fueling the DRC's otherwise endless violence"--Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

A beginning -- Outrages in Congo -- Surviving violence -- Embodying violence -- Navigating violence -- Meanings of violence -- The myth of international protection.

"This book covers more than a decade of child protection work and ethnographic field research in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It tells two stories: one of the entrenched violences survived by young people and their daily struggles to cope with deepening poverty and blocked aspirations; the other, a personal journey that begins with the will to do good and ends with the realization of how international aid contributes to greater harm. It offers a new perspective to reframe how the world sees the DRC, and urges global audiences to consider their own roles in fueling the DRC's otherwise endless violence"--Provided by publisher.

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