‘My heart was already cooked’: girl soldiers and situated moral agencies
‘My heart was already cooked’: girl soldiers and situated moral agencies
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“我的心已经熟了”：女兵和道德机构
DOI：
10.1080/09557571.2018.1495180
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发表时间：
2018
影响因子：
1.4
通讯作者：
Leena Vastapuu
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作者：
M. Vaha;Leena Vastapuu
近年来，在国际关系、国际法和道德哲学领域，关于战争中儿童的研究数量稳步增加。这项研究的大部分都是围绕战争中儿童的法律和道德地位展开的。女兵的地位尤其耐人寻味，因为它混为一谈，认为妇女和儿童都是战争的无辜受害者。在这篇文章中，我们通过集中讲述1989年至1997年和2000年至2003年两次利比里亚内战中以各种形式参加的女孩，来探讨战争背景下儿童受害的叙述。通过对女退伍军人进行的访谈，我们认为，对一般儿童兵--特别是女童兵--的研究将受益于对女孩经历的更具背景敏感性和经验性的研究，特别是关于她们作为战争代理人的能力的可能性和局限性。我们展示了儿童的代理能力是如何区分大小写的，并认为在研究战争中的儿童时，学术必须更好地考虑到童年和代理的复杂背景。
Abstract The number of studies on children in war has steadily increased in the fields of international relations, international law and moral philosophy in recent years. Most of this research has evolved around the legal and moral status of children in war. The status of girl soldiers is particularly intriguing, as it conflates common assumptions about both women and children as innocent victims of war. In this paper we look at narratives of children’s victimhood in the context of war by concentrating on girls who participated, in various forms, in the two Liberian civil wars from 1989 to 1997 and 2000 to 2003. Drawing on interviews conducted with women war veterans, we make the case that the study of child soldiers in general—and girl soldiers in particular—would benefit from a more contextually sensitive and empirically informed study of girls’ experiences, specifically regarding the possibilities and limitations of their capacity to be agents of war. We demonstrate how the agential capacities of children are case sensitive and argue that scholarship must better take into account the complex contextuality of childhood and agency in the study of children in war.