This Land Is Not For Sale: Trust and Transitions in Northern Uganda

by Lotte Meinert (Editor), Susan Reynolds Whyte (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781800736979
Publisher:	Berghahn Books, Incorporated
Publication date:	01/13/2023
Series:	Integration and Conflict Studies , #27
Pages:	298
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

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).

Susan Reynolds Whyte is Professor at the Department of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen, and has researched in East Africa on social efforts to secure well-being in the face of poverty, disease, conflict, and rapid change. Her publications deal with the management of misfortune, legacies of violence, and transformations in relations of gender and generations.

Table of Contents

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

Editorial Reviews

“This wonderful book makes an important contribution to the study of African land and rural communities on a number of levels. There is a remarkable richness and diversity of empirical material, largely collected and described by researchers and writers from the region.” • Julian Hopwood, London School of Economics

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