TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dolan,Chris
TI  - Social Torture: The Case of Northern Uganda, 1986-2006 
T2  - Human Rights in Context
SN  - 9781845455651
AV  - DT433.285 .D65 2009 
U1  - 967.61044 
PY  - 2009///]
CY  - New York, Oxford
PB  - Berghahn Books
KW  - Human rights
KW  - Uganda
KW  - Humanitarian intervention
KW  - Torture
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Violence
KW  - Psychological aspects
KW  - War and society
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Anthropology (General), Refugee and Migration Studies
N1  - Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; List of Figures --; Foreword --; Acknowledgements --; Abbreviations --; Map of ‘Protected Villages’ in which Fieldwork Was Conducted --; 1. Introduction --; 2. The Research Process --; 3. An Overview of the Situation in Northern Uganda --; 4. Reconsidering the LRA–Government Dynamic --; 5. Protection As Violation --; 6. Protection As Debilitation --; 7. Protection As Humiliation --; 8. Social Torture and the Continuation of War --; 9. Conclusions --; Annex A. Testimony of a LRA Soldier who Returned under Amnesty, October 2001. Recorded April 2002, Kampala --; Annex B. An Account of the 1994 Peace Talks --; Bibliography --; INDEX; restricted access
N2  - As Director of the Refugee Law Project at the University of Makerere, Kampala, Uganda, Dolan offers a behind-the-scenes, cross-disciplinary study of one of Africa's longest running and most intractable conflicts. This book shows how, alongside the activities of the Lord's Resistance Army, government decisions and actions on the ground, consolidated by humanitarian interventions and silences, played a central role in creating a massive yet only very belatedly recognized humanitarian crisis. Not only individuals, but society as a whole, came to exhibit symptoms typical of torture, and the perpetrator-victim dichotomy became blurred. It is such phenomena, and the complex of social, political, economic and cultural dynamics which underpin them, which the author describes as social torture. Building on political economy, social anthropology, discourse analysis, international relations and psychoanalytic approaches to violence, this book offers an important analytical instrument for all those seeking entry points through which to address entrenched conflicts, whether from a conflict resolution, post-conflict recovery or transitional justice perspective
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781845459123
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781845459123
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