Buried in the heart : women, complex victimhood and the war in northern Uganda / Erin Baines, University of British Columbia.
2017
KTW403.95.W65 B35 2017 (Mapit)
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Title
Buried in the heart : women, complex victimhood and the war in northern Uganda / Erin Baines, University of British Columbia.
Imprint
New York : Cambridge University Press, 2017.
Description
xix,152 pages ; 24 cm.
Series
Cambridge studies in law and society.
Formatted Contents Note
The new Acholi
The originals
Grandmother
Seven stories
Conclusions
Light / by Juliane Okot Bitek.
The originals
Grandmother
Seven stories
Conclusions
Light / by Juliane Okot Bitek.
Summary
"In Buried in the Heart, Erin Baines explores the political agency of women abducted as children by the Lord's Resistance Army in northern Uganda, forced to marry its commanders, and to bear their children. Introducing the concept of complex victimhood, she argues that abducted women were not passive victims, but navigated complex social and political worlds that were life inside the violent armed group. Exploring the life stories of thirty women, Baines considers the possibilities of storytelling to reclaim one's sense of self and relations to others, and to generate political judgement after mass violence. Buried in the Heart moves beyond victim and perpetrator frameworks prevalent in the field of transitional justice, shifting the attention to stories of living through mass violence and the possibilities of remaking communities after it. The book contributes to an overlooked aspect of international justice: women's political agency during wartime"--Provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Location
STA
Call Number
KTW403.95.W65 B35 2017
Language
English
ISBN
9781107137127 hardback
1107137128 hardback
1107137128 hardback
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