A5041686467- Gender, Security, and Conflict
- Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics
- Cambodian History and Society
- Sex work and related issues
- Sexual Assault and Victimization Studies
- Dietetics, Nutrition, and Education
- Gender Politics and Representation
- Anthropological Studies and Insights
- Migration, Refugees, and Integration
- Peacebuilding and International Security
- Geographies of human-animal interactions
- African history and culture studies
- Torture, Ethics, and Law
- Tourism, Volunteerism, and Development
- Migration, Health, Geopolitics, Historical Geography
- Wildlife Conservation and Criminology Analyses
- International Law and Human Rights
- Law in Society and Culture
- Interpreting and Communication in Healthcare
- African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues
- Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance
- Gender Roles and Identity Studies
- Health Sciences Research and Education
- Pharmaceutical Economics and Policy
- Human Rights and Development
University of Cambridge
2019-2021
Gender Studies
2020
Health and Human Services Agency
2020
San Diego State University
2020
London School of Economics and Political Science
2012-2018
Ghent University
2018
University of Antwerp
2018
ABSTRACT The trial of Thomas Kwoyelo – the first war crimes prosecution a former Lord's Resistance Army fighter, and only domestic in Uganda at time writing has been packed with drama, intrigue politics. article considers what Kwoyelo's means for those most affected by he allegedly committed, and, more broadly, it ‘transitional justice’ project Uganda. is concerned primarily how interpreted ‘on ground’ Acholiland: local leadership; personal relationship to Kwoyelo; direct victims his alleged...
Abstract In the Acholi sub-region of Uganda, historically and geographically peripheral since colonial era epicenter over 20 years war – there is a peculiar manifestation what appear to be contradictory phenomena: brutally violent retribution extraordinary forgiveness. This article suggests that both responses wrongdoing are motivated by same supremely important value social harmony. The focuses on one crime, rape, examines justice means for women in vacuum created decayed state former local...
Gender, sexuality, and violence have attracted significant attention in the sphere of humanitarianism recent years. While this shift builds on earlier ‘Gender Development’ approach ‘Women, Peace, Security Agenda’, analytical depth is lacking practice. Notably, ‘gender’ often means a singular concern for women, neglecting questions agency dynamic changing realities gendered power relations. This introductory paper examines why neglect occurs proposes more relational to gender. It explores how...
This article reflects on why so many women never access justice or take advantage of available services after rape in northern Uganda. It focuses roles three prominent non-governmental actors: lineage-based kinship authority, churches, and organisations examining the parts they played 94 instances this study more broadly, how have shaped notions appropriate responses to it. Evidence from (participant observation over years 187 in-depth interviews) suggests that although organizations...
This paper draws on fieldwork conducted in 2011 and 2016 to explore the differing experiences of Karamojong women following Government Uganda's most recent disarmament programme. Besides being deprived their guns, communities have lost cattle which livelihoods way life were centred. The study assesses whether or not women's experience patriarchy has changed these new circumstances, and, if so, how this impacts security control resources, absence them. It maps, using information primarily...
In post-war northern Uganda (as elsewhere), the reintegration of ex-combatants into their home communities is an ongoing process that involves long-term social and spiritual labour. The "re" "reintegration," however, might falsely assume a static cohesive Acholi cosmology within which parameters such labours are clearly defined. Pathways taken with goal lessening suffering caused by war tread civilians alike, ways former Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) fighters attempt to alleviate distress...
How can citizens living under increasingly militarized and authoritarian regimes exercise political voice? Using an in-depth case study of naked protest in modern day Uganda, this article finds that bodies allow to employ three types overlapping power confront a state: biopower, symbolic power, cosmological power. The illustrates one way which seek engage regimes—and doing so, how voice takes particular forms with limited capacity instigate broader claim-making might be associated country-...
Abstract By 2019, a record high of 79.5 million people were forcibly displaced worldwide as result persecution, conflict, violence, and human rights violations (UNHCR 2020a: 2). In the decade leading up to this only fraction number able ‘return’ or find ‘durable solution’. Multiple waves displacement are common, often involves far more complicated arrangements than term suggests. Yet if ‘return’, one-directional durable solution is increasingly rare, need understand it in difficult dynamic...
ABSTRACT When it comes to rape in war, evocative language describing as a ‘weapon of war’ has become commonplace. Although politically important, overemphasis on strategic aspects wartime sexual violence can be misleading. Alternative explanations tend understand either exceptional — departure from ‘normal’ relationships or part continuum gendered violence. This article shows how, even norms are not suspended; nor do they simply continue. War changes the moral landscape. Drawing ethnographic...
Abstract The processual nature of affinal relationships is well established in Africanist anthropology. This article calls for greater attention to spatial considerations and proposes the concept movement as an integral dimension understanding relationships. observation springs from reflections on how experiences displacement return northern Uganda have reshaped constructions ‘home’ relation love intimate Reflecting ethnographic research over ten years where a two-decade-long war (1986–2006)...
Discussions on African responses to Covid-19 have focused the state and its international backers. Far less is known about a wider range of public authorities, including chiefs, humanitarians, criminal gangs, armed groups. This paper investigates how pandemic provided opportunities for claims contests over power in Uganda, Democratic Republic Congo, South Sudan. Ethnographic research used contend that local forms authority can be akin miniature sovereigns, able interpret dictates, policies,...
“How do you define rape?” When one does research on rape, this question is of the most basic and common. Ostensibly, about methodology. But if we scratch beneath surface, it fundamentally an ontological question: what rape? This article explores where threshold which separates sex that okay from rape comes from. Does come a deeply embodied sense being violated, normative limit socially and/or legally constructed—or something else? Ultimately, suggests reimagining as sexual trespass boundaries being.
Sharing information with people limited English proficiency is a universal challenge. The County of San Diego has diverse population and, as result, language and access barriers present serious risks when communicating disaster public health emergency information. In support the "Live Well Diego" vision county that healthy, safe, thriving, Office Emergency Services Health Human Agency, Public Services, worked to design community-based program address this critical issue. Program development...