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.
| ISBN: | 9781316502099 |
| Publication date: | 10th May 2018 |
| Author: | Erin University of British Columbia, Vancouver Baines |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 177 pages |
| Series: | Cambridge Studies in Law and Society |
| Genres: |
War crimes Gender studies: women and girls Sexual abuse and harassment |
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.
Buried in the Heart features in the following genres: War crimes, Gender studies: women and girls, Sexual abuse and harassment
Buried in the Heart is available in Paperback, Hardback
Buried in the Heart was written by Erin University of British Columbia, Vancouver Baines and published by Cambridge University Press
Buried in the Heart has 177 pages
Yes it is part of Cambridge Studies in Law and Society series
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