Buried in the Heart
Women, Complex Victimhood and the War in Northern Uganda
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- Author: Erin Baines, University of British Columbia, Vancouver
- Date Published: May 2018
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- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781316502099
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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.
Read more- Featuring analysis of thirty women who spent time in the Lord's Resistance Army, the book conceptualizes complex victimhood
- Reconsiders responsibility and judgment to move beyond the victim-perpetrator binary in transitional justice
- Introduces concepts of politics as relational and political agency in settings of extreme coercion
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'Buried in the Heart is essential reading for scholars of the Ugandan case and practitioners in the Uganda context. Moreover, the book will be of considerable interest and benefit to scholas and practitioners in the broader field of gender, conflict, and transitional justice.' Catherine O’Rourke, Gender & Development
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- Date Published: May 2018
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781316502099
- length: 177 pages
- dimensions: 230 x 153 x 10 mm
- weight: 0.35kg
- contains: 12 b/w illus.
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
List of figures
Preface
Foreword
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction
2. The new Acholi
3. The originals
4. Grandmother
5. Seven stories
6. Conclusions
Light Juliane Okot Bitek
Index.
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