Contested claims to gardens and land: gendered practice in post-war northern Uganda

TY - CHAP

T1 - Contested claims to gardens and land

T2 - gendered practice in post-war northern Uganda

AU - Obika, Julaina

AU - Adol, Ben Otto

AU - Babiiha, Sulayman Mpisi

AU - Whyte, Michael

PY - 2018

Y1 - 2018

N2 - This chapter explores how, in a patrilineal and patriarchal society recovering from two decades of war, women and men frame arguments about entitlement. Here claims to gardens (plots of land for cultivation) become a contested conversation about women’s rights of belonging to family and community, revealing transforma- tions in ideas and practices about land rights and land ownership. Drawing on extended cases we follow claims through a variety of legal and social fora as men and women mobilise allies and seek to draw on goodwill and the ideal of harmonious co- existence (ber bedo).

AB - This chapter explores how, in a patrilineal and patriarchal society recovering from two decades of war, women and men frame arguments about entitlement. Here claims to gardens (plots of land for cultivation) become a contested conversation about women’s rights of belonging to family and community, revealing transforma- tions in ideas and practices about land rights and land ownership. Drawing on extended cases we follow claims through a variety of legal and social fora as men and women mobilise allies and seek to draw on goodwill and the ideal of harmonious co- existence (ber bedo).

KW - Faculty of Social Sciences

KW - Land conflict

KW - gender

KW - Post-war

KW - Northern Uganda

M3 - Book chapter

SN - 9781038550896

SP - 205

EP - 220

BT - Contested Property Claims

A2 - Bruun, Maja Hojer

A2 - Cockburn, Patrick J. L.

A2 - Risager, Bjarke Skærlund

A2 - Thorup, Mikkel

PB - Routledge

CY - Oxford & New York

ER -