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Living with Bad Surroundings - War, History, and Everyday Moments in Northern Uganda (Paperback)
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Living with Bad Surroundings - War, History, and Everyday Moments in Northern Uganda (Paperback)
Series: The Cultures and Practice of Violence
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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 driven into displacement. Thousands of
children have been abducted and forced to fight. 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. These observers tend to portray the
Acholi as war-prone, whether because of religious fanaticism or
intractable ethnic hatreds. In Living with Bad Surroundings,
Sverker Finnstroem rejects these characterizations and challenges
other simplistic explanations for the violence in northern Uganda.
Foregrounding the narratives of individual Acholi, Finnstroem
enables those most affected by the ongoing "dirty war" to explain
how they participate in, comprehend, survive, and even resist
it.Finnstroem 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, Finnstroem 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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