Danny Hoffman: the work of War. The organization of Violence and male Labor in Sierra Leone and Liberia (29 nov, Paris)

The Work of War » explores how the organization of labor – especially the labor of young men – intersects with another West African reality: the reality of widespread and sustained violence. The latter is often interpreted as the anti-thesis of properly functioning social, political, and economic worlds. And yet the recent histories of Sierra Leone and Liberia suggest that these nations’ wars and their uncertain aftermaths have been defined in large part by the way young men’s labor is organized. In this talk I consider three moments in the modern history of Sierra Leone and Liberia in which war and work became inseparable activities for a population of young African men.

Danny Hoffman (University of Washington) est anthropologue. Il est l’auteur de “The War Machines: Young Men and Violence in Sierra Leone
and Liberia”, Durham, NC: Duke University Press, (2011).

Son intervention sera discutée par Elisabeth Claverie, directrice de recherche CNRS à l’ISP, et Richard Banégas, professeur à l’IEP de Paris.

Le séminaire aura lieu le vendredi 29 novembre 2013
de 10h00 à 12h00
Salle 352 du bâtiment F (3e étage)
Université Paris Ouest Nanterre

Contacts :
Marielle Debos (mdebos@<http://u-paris10.fr>u-paris10.fr)
Jérôme Tournadre (<mailto:jetournadre@gmail.com>jetournadre@gmail.com)