Buried in the heart
Subtitle: women, complex victimhood and the war in northern Uganda
By: Erin Baines, University of British Columbia
Series: Cambridge studies in law and society; Cambridge studies in law and society
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 152
ISBN-13: 9781107137127; 9781316502099
Subjects: Resilience (Personality trait); Women and war; Crimes against; Lord's Resistance Army; Transitional justice; Women
Description: "In Buried in the Heart, Erin Baines explores the political agency of women abducted as children by the Lord's Resistance Army in northern Uganda, forced to marry its commanders, and to bear their children. Introducing the concept of complex victimhood, she argues that abducted women were not passive victims, but navigated complex social and political worlds that were life inside the violent armed group. Exploring the life stories of thirty women, Baines considers the possibilities of storytelling to reclaim one's sense of self and relations to others, and to generate political judgement after mass violence. Buried in the Heart moves beyond victim and perpetrator frameworks prevalent in the field of transitional justice, shifting the attention to stories of living through mass violence and the possibilities of remaking communities after it. The book contributes to an overlooked aspect of international justice: women's political agency during wartime"--

"Life at home is very hard. Even when you are humble, people talk about me wherever I go. They say, Obeno pa meni tek [the cloth the mother used to tie her baby on her back was strong] because I managed to return yet other people's children died. Many people have died. They were killed. There is no way out"--
Notes: Various printings.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The new Acholi; title: The originals; title: Grandmother; title: Seven stories; title: Conclusions; title: Light / by Juliane Okot Bitek.