Buried in the heart : women, complex victimhood and the war in northern Uganda / Erin Baines.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Baines, Erin K., 1969- author.

Series:

Cambridge studies in law and society

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Crimes against--Uganda.

Women.

Lord's Resistance Army.

Resilience (Personality trait)--Uganda.

Resilience (Personality trait).

Transitional justice--Uganda.

Transitional justice.

Women and war--Uganda.

Women and war.

Women--Crimes against.

Uganda.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xix, 152 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2017.

System Details:

text file

PDF

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.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 25 Jan 2017).

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Print version:

ISBN:

9781316480342

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