'The girl is the core of life’: social reintegration, communal violence, and the sacred in Northern Uganda

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dc.contributor.authorShanahan, Fiona
dc.contributor.authorVeale, Angela
dc.contributor.editorMaeland, B.
dc.date.accessioned2019-02-07T12:06:53Z
dc.date.available2019-02-07T12:06:53Z
dc.date.issued2010-10
dc.date.updated2013-11-05T13:29:52Z
dc.description.abstractThis chapter explores diverse community perspectives related to girls and young women formerly associated with the Lord’s Resistance Army, some of whom returned with children, in particular focusing on the use of cultural resources in social reintegration. The methodology consisted of in-depth interviews and focus group discussions with fifty participants—including Acholi Elders, Ajwakis (spiritual healers), local leaders and displaced never-abducted girls, women and men. A Grounded Theory analysis identified the following three categories; (1) Things Fall Apart—examining cultural constructions of ‘girlhood’ and the communal meanings of violence against girls, (2) Identity tensions presented by young mothers and their babies to the community of return, contributing to stigma enacted within specific social contexts and (3) The use of cultural resources in social reintegration. Culturally rooted community routines and practices are often overlooked but are central to a full understanding of social reintegration.en
dc.description.statusNot peer revieweden
dc.description.versionAccepted Versionen
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dc.identifier.citationShanahan, F. and Veale, A. (2010) "'The girl is the core of life': violence and the sacred in social reintegration, Northern Uganda', in: Maeland, B. (ed.), Culture, Religion and the Reintegration of Former Child Soldiers in Northern Uganda, Geneva: New York : Peter Lang. isbn: 978-1-4331-0951-5en
dc.identifier.endpage18en
dc.identifier.isbn978-1-4331-0951-5
dc.identifier.startpage1en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/7462
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherPeter Lang Publishing Incen
dc.relation.urihttps://www.peterlang.com/view/title/21438
dc.rights© Peter Lang AG, 2010. All rights reserved. This is the Accepted Manuscript that has been published in Culture, Religion, and the Reintegration of Female Child Soldiers in Northern Uganda, edited by B. Maeland. The original work can be found at: https://www.peterlang.com/view/title/21438en
dc.subjectLord's Resistance Armyen
dc.subjectGirl soldiersen
dc.subjectIdentityen
dc.subjectReintegrationen
dc.subjectArned groupsen
dc.subjectChild soldiersen
dc.subjectAbducted girlsen
dc.subjectUgandaen
dc.subjectSierra Leoneen
dc.subjectStigmaen
dc.title'The girl is the core of life’: social reintegration, communal violence, and the sacred in Northern Ugandaen
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