Search results for "Uganda"

Gender roles and domestic violence : narrative analysis of social construction of gender in Uganda

2016

Gender Roles and Domestic Violence: Narrative Analysis of Social Construction of Gender in Uganda. Veera Joro. Master’s Thesis in Political Science/ Development and International Cooperation. Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy. University of Jyväskylä. Winter 2016. Supervisors: Tiina Kontinen and Marja Keränen. Pg 1-94. Appendix 1 pg 95-111. The objective of this thesis was to investigate the gender roles are understood within the Ugandan context and how they contribute towards the severe issue of domestic violence within the country. This thesis has taken a social constructivist approach towards understanding this issue by exploring how socially constructed gender roles are relat…

Innovative pragmatic codes in Ugandan English : a relevance-theoretic account

2013

Published version of an article in the journal: Argumentum. Also available from the publisher at: http://argumentum.unideb.hu/2013-anyagok/bisingoma.pdf Open access The paper investigates innovative pragmatic codes in Ugandan English within the conceptual framework of Relevance Theory (cf. Sperber & Wilson 1986, Wilson & Sperber 2004). Wilson & Sperber (2004) state that an utterance is optimally relevant if it is worth the hearer’s processing effort, and if it is compatible with the speaker’s linguistic abilities and preferences. The reasoning behind these tenets of Relevance Theory can be used to account for the pervasive use of many expressions peculiar to Ugandan English. For example, in…

Notes on Afrotropical Cydnidae (Heteroptera) with emphasis on vehicle-mounted net samples and description of a new species from Liberia, West Africa

2019

Notes on the Cydnidae fauna in Liberia, sampled with a vehicle-mounted net, the species taxonomy and general distribution are reported, including the description of Chilocoris elongatus sp. nov. In addition, new country records are provided for Angola, Ethiopia, Gabon, Guine    a-Bissau, Namibia, Niger, Republic of South Africa, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, and Zimbabwe. 

Life beyond the camp : rethinking return, reconstruction and women's expression of lived experiences in Northern Uganda

2015

The conflict in Northern Uganda is recognized as having come to an end with the signing of a cessation of hostilities agreement between the Lord’s Resistance Army and the Government of Uganda in August 2006, which resulted in improved security. Estimates suggest that the majority of the displaced populations have left their camps and moved either to transit sites near farms or to their village of origin. Much research has been done on the living conditions of women in the Ugandan IDP camps yet very little has been written on the situation for women who return home or resettle after the camp. This study aims at understanding the gender specific challenges of formerly conflict-displaced women…

A divided country : microhistorical perspective to the presidents and authority in Uganda

2008

Tämän tutkimuksen tarkoituksena on tarkastella Ugandan yhteiskunnan kehitystä kahden eri kysymyksen kautta: Kuinka pohjoisen ja etelän jako on kehittynyt itsenäisyyden aikana sekä millainen on acholi-heimon asema Ugandan politiikassa? Tutkimus kuvaa narratiivien avulla eri presidenttien valtakausia sekä näiden kahden ilmiön kehitystä. Metodologisesti tutkimus hyödyntää mikrohistorian muunnelmaa yhdessä Max Weberin auktoriteettikäsitteiden sekä Christopher Claphamin mukaisen uus-patrimonialismin käsitteen kanssa. Kysymysten tarkastelu on jaettu jaksoihin, jotka vastaavat Ugandan presidenttien virkakausia. Tutkimuksen päämateriaali koostuu poliittisista elämänkerroista ja kirjallisuusmateriaa…

The Lord’s Resistance Army and the arms that brought the Lord : amplifying polyphonic silences in northern Uganda

2019

This article develops the notion of polyphonic silence as a means for thinking through the ethical and political ramifications of ethnographically encountering and writing about silenced violent pasts. To do so, it analyses and contrasts the silence surrounding two periods of extreme violence in northern Uganda: 1) the northern Ugandan war (1986–2006), which is contemporarily often shrouded by silence, and 2) the early decades of colonial and missionary expansion, which the Catholic church silences in its commemoration of the death of two Acholi catechists in 1918. Employing the notion of polyphony, the article describes how neither of these silences is a mere absence of narration. Instead,…

Harvesting trees to harvest cash crops: The role of internal migrants in forest land conversion in Uganda

2021

Kirkon ihanteiden ja todellisuuden välillä on kuilu

2020

Contextualizing citizenship in Uganda

2019

According to the pragmatist framework of this book, practices in which citizenship is constructed are embedded in certain environments and, accordingly, current citizenship habits have been formulated in the course of a continuity of experiences and in interaction with existing circumstances (Holma & Kontinen, this volume). In this chapter, we provide a short overview of Uganda in so far as it is relevant for understanding the experiences and practices of citizenship: both vocal political engagement and the everyday processes of addressing matters of local importance. In contemporary Uganda, citizenship is manifest, on the one hand, in the upfront contestation and mobilization of visible op…

Women’s Multifaceted Citizenship : Identity, Belonging and Spaces of Participation in Rural Uganda

2022

This article analyses manifestations of women’s citizenship in diverse spaces of everyday participation in the rural districts of Kiboga and Namutumba in Uganda. Building on citizenship studies scholarship, we propose the notion of multifaceted citizenship, which ‘takes place’ in the same spaces of participation as processes of identity formation and belonging. Thus, our article also explores how identities and belonging manifest in spaces of participation. Drawing on content analysis of 50 qualitative interviews, we begin by investigating the spaces of participation that are experienced as meaningful by women. We then classify identities into five main categories: active resident, member, …