This Land is Not For Sale

Trust and Transitions in Northern Uganda

Lotte Meinert, Susan Reynolds Whyte (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

298 Seiten

2023
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80073-697-9 (ISBN)

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Although violent conflict has declined in northern Uganda, tensions and mistrust concerning land have increased. Residents try to deal with acquisitions by investors and exclusions from forests and wildlife reserves. Land wrangles among neighbours and relatives are widespread. The growing commodification of land challenges ideals of entrustment for future generations. Using extended case studies, collaborating researchers analyze the principles and practices that shape access to land. Contributors examine the multiplicity of land claims, the nature of transactions and the management of conflicts. They show how access to land is governed through intimate relations of gender, generation and belonging.

Lotte Meinert is Professor at the Department of Anthropology, Aarhus University. She has carried out research in Uganda since 1993 and led research capacity projects in Northern Uganda for 15 years. Her publications include Time Work: Studies of Temporal Agency Biosocial Worlds (Berghahn, 2020) and Configuring Contagion: Ethnographies of Biosocial Epidemics (Berghahn, 2021).

List of Illustrations

Foreword

Sara Berry

Introduction: Trust and Transitions in Northern Uganda

Lotte Meinert and Susan Reynolds Whyte

Part I: Claims to Land

Case I: The Case of a Disputed Land Sale

Mette Lind Kusk

Chapter 1. Multiplicity

Stephen Langole, Susan Reynolds Whyte and Michael Whyte

Chapter 2. Transactions

Lotte Meinert and Mette Lind Kusk

Chapter 3. Conflicts

Irene Winnie Anying and Quentin Gausset

Part II: Intimate Governance of Land

Case II: Disrupted Land and Broken Graves

Sophie Seebach

Chapter 4. Generations

Esther Acio, Lioba Lenhart and Susan Reynolds Whyte

Chapter 5. Gender

Julaina A. Obika and Hanne O. Mogensen

Chapter 6. Belonging

Ben Otto Adol, Michael Whyte and Susan Reynolds Whyte

Part III: Imagining Development

Case III: Claiming ‘Their’ School: Land Dispute Between Two Churches over a Primary School

Catrine Shroff

Chapter 7. Aspirations

Susan Reynolds Whyte and Catrine Shroff

Chapter 8. Inside-Outsiders

Marianne Mosebo and Lotte Meinert

Chapter 9. Conservation

Lioba Lenhart and Lotte Meinert

Afterword: Who Belongs Where, and What Belongs to Whom?

Christian Lund

Appendix: Land Legislation and Implementation in Uganda

Anne Mette Kjær

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	20.12.2022
Reihe/Serie	Integration and Conflict Studies
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10	1-80073-697-5 / 1800736975
ISBN-13	978-1-80073-697-9 / 9781800736979
Zustand	Neuware