Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Acknowledgements

Preface: Liberia at war

Introduction: Hell is the absolute lack of being heard

Challenging the taken-for-granted

Women war veterans as social rafters

Practicing feminist curiosity as a researcher

Worlding texts with the contrapuntal approach

Curious contrapuntalism as a theoretical backbone

Conclusion

1: Auto-photographing rivers of insecurities

Visualizing the ‘pain of others’

The auto-photographic research approach

From social navigation to social rafting

Amy, Teta and Priscilla as social rafters

Strengthening the rafts of survival

Street sisters and brothers as security providers

Conclusion

2: Girl and women soldiers in Liberia’s civil wars

Joining the forces

Girls’ and women’s roles and duties in the ranks

Systematic inequalities inside the armed forces

Conclusion

3: DDR: Disarmament, Disillusionment and Remarginalization

Exit battlefield, enter civilian life

Women veterans’ views on Liberian DDRR activities

Niti, nyaya and institutional justice

Conclusion

4: Social rafting in post-war Liberia

The chicken that digs for food will not sleep hungry

Manoeuvring in the storms of life

Hustling is not stealing

Conclusion

5: Let my children’s future be alright

I want to learn book

I would like to become a big business woman

Let me have a concrete house

Conclusion: ‘So I decided that life ahead of me will be better tomorrow’

Conclusion

Warscapes as contrapuntal environments

Epilogue: ‘When I sing, I can forget about my problems’

Notes

References

Index