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

Julaina Obika; Ben Otto  Adol; Sulayman Mpisi Babiiha; Michael Whyte

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

Julaina Obika, Ben Otto Adol, Sulayman Mpisi Babiiha, Michael Whyte

Abstract

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).

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Contested Property Claims : What Disagreement Tells Us About Ownership
Editors	Maja Hojer Bruun, Patrick J. L. Cockburn, Bjarke Skærlund Risager, Mikkel Thorup
Number of pages	15
Place of Publication	Oxford & New York
Publisher	Routledge
Publication date	2018
Pages	205-220
Chapter	11
ISBN (Print)	9781038550896
ISBN (Electronic)	9781351362092
Publication status	Published - 2018

Keywords

Faculty of Social Sciences
Land conflict
gender
Post-war
Northern Uganda

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Contested claims to gardens and land : gendered practice in post-war northern Uganda. / Obika, Julaina; Adol, Ben Otto ; Babiiha, Sulayman Mpisi et al.

Contested Property Claims: What Disagreement Tells Us About Ownership. ed. / Maja Hojer Bruun; Patrick J. L. Cockburn; Bjarke Skærlund Risager; Mikkel Thorup. Oxford & New York : Routledge, 2018. p. 205-220.

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

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