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Living with Bad Surroundings: War, History, and Everyday Moments in Northern Ug

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Title: Living with Bad Surroundings: War, History, and Everyday Moments

ISBN: 9780822341918

Publication Year: 2008

Type: Textbook

Format: Paperback

Language: English

Publication Name: Living with Bad Surroundings: War, History, and Everyday Moments in Northern Uganda

Item Height: 235mm

Author: Sverker Finnstroem

Publisher: Duke University Press

Item Width: 155mm

Subject: Anthropology, History

Number of Pages: 304 Pages

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Since 1986, the Acholi people of northern Uganda have lived in the crossfire of a violent civil war, with the Lord's Resistance Army and other groups fighting the Ugandan government. Acholi have been murdered, maimed, and forced into displacement. Thousands of children have been abducted and forced into fighting. Many observers have perceived Acholiland and northern Uganda to be an exception in contemporary Uganda, which has been celebrated by the international community for its increased political stability and particularly for its fight against AIDS. In this narrative, the Acholi are portrayed as war-prone, whether because of religious fanaticism or intractable ethnic hatreds. In Living with Bad Surroundings, Sverker Finnstrom rejects these characterizations, and he challenges other simplistic explanations for the violence in northern Uganda. Foregrounding the narratives of individual Acholi, Finnstrom enables those most affected by the ongoing dirty war to explain how they participate in, comprehend, survive, and even resist it.Finnstrom draws on fieldwork conducted in northern Uganda between 1997 and 2006 to describe how the Acholi--especially the younger generation, those born into the era of civil strife--understand and attempt to control their moral universe and material circumstances. Structuring his argument around indigenous metaphors and images, notably the Acholi concepts of good and bad surroundings, he vividly renders struggles in war and the related ills of impoverishment, sickness, and marginalization. In this rich ethnography, Finnstrom provides a clear-eyed assessment of the historical, cultural, and political underpinnings of the civil war while maintaining his focus on Acholi efforts to achieve good surroundings, viable futures for themselves and their families.

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Duke University Press

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9780822341918

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Author

Sverker Finnstroem

Publication Name

Living with Bad Surroundings: War, History, and Everyday Moments in Northern Uganda

Format

Paperback

Language

English

Subject

Anthropology, History

Publication Year

2008

Type

Textbook

Number of Pages

304 Pages

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Item Height

235mm

Item Width

155mm

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Sverker Finnstroem

Series Title

The Cultures and Practice of Violence

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United States

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