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Title
'When the World Turns Upside Down, Live Like a Bat!': idioms of suffering, coping, and resilience among elderly female Zande Refugees in Kiryandongo refugee settlement, Uganda (2019'20) |
Date
2022 |
Author(s)
Hillary, I.W.; Braak, B.J. |
Abstract
'Resilience' is trending in development theory and practice, where it is often measured using countable socio-economic<em>outcomes</em>. This paper draws on ethnographic research with South Sudanese Zande refugees in Kiryandongo Refugee Settlement, Uganda, to show a different and often overlooked perspective; that of elderly refugee women. Having lived through decades of war and displacement, these women have developed a rich body of knowledge about suffering, coping, and resilience. Mixing idioms, folktales, and anecdotes, they teach youth not to focus on<em>outcomes</em>or 'big dreams', but on a stoic acceptance of loss and perpetual precarity. They advise<em>actions</em>like farming, childcare, and faith. Even so, suffering and coping are socially conditioned and policed, and the intimate circle harbours both protection and dangers, like witchcraft. The women's accounts contrast bleakly with up-beat neoliberal developmentalism which sees cash-infused 'resilience' as the key to refugees' self-reliant futures. - Rockefeller Resilience Research: IGA-Rockefeller Funding Call under Grant IDVTA. - Effective Protection of Fundamental Rights in a pluralist world |
Subject(s)
Refugee studies; Resilience; Conflict studies; Idioms of distress; Uganda; South Sudan; Refugee settlements; Kiryandongo Refugee Settlement; Trauma; Coping; Suffering; Witchcraft; Inequality; Refugee policy; Development programming |
Language
en |
Type of publication
Article / Letter to editor; info:eu-repo/semantics/article; Text |
Format
application/pdf |
Source
Civil Wars |
Rights
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ |
Identifier
doi:10.1080/13698249.2022.2015196; lucris-id:434005131 |
Repository
Leiden - University of Leiden
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