Research Catalog

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

Title: Buried in the heart : women, complex victimhood and the war in northern Uganda / Erin Baines, University of British Columbia.
Author: Baines, Erin K., 1969-
Publication: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2017.

Filter by

Item details
Status	Format	Access	Call Number	Item Location
Request for On-site Use Request Scan Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.	Text	Use in library	Sc E 17-268	Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

Description

xix,152 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

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"--
"Life at home is very hard. Even when you are humble, people talk about me wherever I go. They say, Obeno pa meni tek [the cloth the mother used to tie her baby on her back was strong] because I managed to return yet other people's children died. Many people have died. They were killed. There is no way out"--

Series Statement

Cambridge studies in law and society

Uniform Title

Cambridge studies in law and society.

Subjects

Bibliography (note)

Contents

The new Acholi -- The originals -- Grandmother -- Seven stories -- Conclusions -- Light / by Juliane Okot Bitek.

Call Number

Sc E 17-268

ISBN

LCCN

2016025926

OCLC

952389216

Author

Baines, Erin K., 1969- author.

Title

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

Publisher

New York : Cambridge University Press, 2017.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Cambridge studies in law and society

Cambridge studies in law and society.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Research Call Number

Sc E 17-268