Abstract This article investigates the pragmatic, everyday journeys of South Sudanese refugees in northern Uganda’s Palabek Refugee Settlement through a mobilities-focused analytical lens. Despite repatriation vast numbers refugees, little is known about diversity refugees’ later movements. Recognition this complexity important. Although many our interlocutors take part multiple interconnected movements both within and across borders, these are frequently irregular unpredictable. We define...

Resilience is a dominant humanitarian-development theme. Nonetheless, some programmes have demonstrably negative impacts which encourage vulnerable people to actively resist these programmes. Based on 12 months ethnographic fieldwork in Ugandan refugee settlement during 2017–18, this paper argues residents articulated their refusal of humanitarian failure and corruption through active, largely non-political, resistance. I term the diverse strategies used 'resistant resilience', arguing that...

This paper presents ethnographic evidence from three sites across the Uganda/South Sudan borderlands. At each location, procedures to identify alleged poisoners were documented. Novel voting processes initiated by hybrid local authorities. Addressing widespread anxiety about proximate wrong-doing seemed promote order locally. In this paper, we discuss similarities between locations and review what constitutes poison. Descriptions of indigenous electoral are then provided. We reveal contested...

This special issue explores post-conflict recovery in northern Uganda from the perspective of survivors themselves. Normative notions resilience are widely critiqued as reductive, depoliticising and simplistic. Although papers here, based on ethnographic methodologies, largely sympathetic to this understanding, they also suggest that consideration should not be abandoned. The offer insights into how communities' experiences strategies often diverge ambitions international actors. They...

This article describes refugee-background South Sudanese Acholi attempts to (re)produce customary marriages in New Zealand. The cross-cutting debt obligations and transactions involved these need the involvement of transnational social networks. Beyond networks, however, are important ethnic identification, with generating maintaining feelings “belonging.” Such largely absent from most refugees’ wider resettlement experiences. Analysis transformations within resettlement-based marriage...

Abstract This paper recounts the autobiography of an evangelical South Sudanese pastor who has been under water to land demons, telling cosmic flows persons, power, and wealth between times, places, dimensions. Although it builds on stories circulating across Africa since colonial times emphasises paradigms found throughout occult economies literature, what is significant about this that relates narrator’s own experience. important because although these elements reference global processes,...

In this paper I use interviews with one Maori artist to provide some preliminary thoughts on the ways art can be used understand personhood. Art work is defined as taonga-whakairo and artistic talent taonga-tuku-iho. conceive both production taonga argue that relationships between art, taonga, whakapapa tipuna encompass networks of connections persons, objects, ideas simultaneously. suggest a structural linkage exchange which form distributed social relationships. Underlying proposition...