Buried in the heart: women, complex victimhood and the war in Northern Uganda

"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...

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Main Author: Baines, Erin K. 1969- (Author)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge , New York Port Melbourne New Delhi Singapore Cambridge University Press 2018
In:Year: 2018
Online Access: Table of Contents
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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"-- Back cover
Item Description:Register, Literaturhinweise
Physical Description:xix,152 Seiten Illustrationen 24 cm
ISBN:9781107137127
9781316502099