Between Ex-Combatization and Opportunities for Peace: The Double-Edged Qualities of Motorcycle-Taxi Driving in Urban Postwar Sierra Leone
Between Ex-Combatization and Opportunities for Peace: The Double-Edged Qualities of Motorcycle-Taxi Driving in Urban Postwar Sierra Leone
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前战斗与和平机会之间：战后塞拉利昂城市摩托车出租车驾驶的双刃剑
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10.2979/africatoday.58.2.97
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2012
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Anne Menzel
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Anne Menzel
战后塞拉利昂城市的商业摩托车出租车驾驶被称赞为前战斗人员自己发明和组织的成功的自我重新融合的例子，也是一种新的社会资本形式，为社区驱动的发展提供了起点。然而，本文提请注意骑自行车的后果和潜力的两面性。在个人层面上，骑自行车确实提供了一种生计，或者至少是一种生存策略，但它同时也导致了前战斗者的社会死胡同——被社会标记为前战斗者。在集体或结构层面上，自行车骑手协会可以为促进和平发展提供地方能力，或者为政治行动者动员前战斗骑手寻求恐吓选民。
Commercial motorcycle-taxi driving in urban postwar Sierra Leone has been praised as an example of successful self-reintegration, invented and organized by ex-combatants themselves, and as a new form of social capital, providing starting points for community-driven development. This article, however, draws attention to the double-edgedness of bike riding's consequences and potentials. At the individual level, bike riding indeed offers a livelihood, or at least a survival strategy, but it simultaneously leads into the social dead end of ex-combatization—of being socially marked as an ex-combatant. At the collective or structural level, bike riders' associations may offer local capacities for the promotion of peaceful development—or for the mobilization of ex-combatized riders by political actors seeking to intimidate the electorate.