Buried in the Heart - Women, Complex Victimhood and the War in Northern Uganda

The book explores the concept of complex victimhood through stories of women who were abducted by the Lord's Resistance Army.

List of contents

List of figures; Preface; Foreword; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; 2. The new Acholi; 3. The originals; 4. Grandmother; 5. Seven stories; 6. Conclusions; Light Juliane Okot Bitek; Index.

About the author

Erin Baines is an Associate Professor at the Liu Institute for Global Issues at the University of British Columbia. Her publications include Vulnerable Bodies: Gender, the UN and the Global Refugee Crisis (2004) and the life history of a woman who spent eleven years inside the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), I Am Evelyn Amony: Reclaiming my Life from the Lord's Resistance Army (2015). She has published articles on gender, responsibility and transitional justice, DDR, social repair, symbolic violence and forced marriage in the Journal of Peace Research, the International Journal of Transitional Justice (IJTJ), African Affairs, the Journal of Modern African Studies, and the Journal of Human Rights.

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. The book will appeal to students and researchers of women and war, law, society and transitional justice.

Product details

• Authors: Erin Baines, Erin (University of British Columbia Baines, Baines Erin
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2017
• EAN: 9781107137127
• ISBN: 978-1-107-13712-7
• No. of pages: 178
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; Uganda, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sexual Abuse & Harassment, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Genocide & War Crimes, Sexual abuse & harassment, War Crimes, Gender studies: women, Sexual abuse and harassment, Gender studies: women and girls