Description
"The Moral Imagination of Survival" considers the lived experiences, or "bare life," of Colombians and Guatemalans who have been displaced inside their country and children and youth who have been forcibly recruited into state, insurgent and paramilitary armies. It is within the displaced communities, communities in flight, and resettlement camps of displaced people that civilians are confronted by armed actors (whether state, insurrectionary or paramilitary) seeking to recruit their youth. Through the lived experiences of displaced people and child soldiers, it seeks to problematize and investigate the interrelationship and replication of displacement and recruitment practices by the army, insurgent forces and paramilitaries in their struggle for hegemonic power. Summer 2004, Academic Year 2004-2005
