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Resistant Resilience: Agency and Resilience Among Refugees Resisting Humanitarian Corruption in Uganda.
- Source :
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Civil Wars . Jun-Sep2022, Vol. 24 Issue 2/3, p328-356. 29p. 2 Color Photographs, 1 Black and White Photograph, 1 Map. - Publication Year :
- 2022
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Abstract
- Resilience is a dominant humanitarian-development theme. Nonetheless, some humanitarian-development programmes have demonstrably negative impacts which encourage vulnerable people to actively resist these programmes. Based on 12 months ethnographic fieldwork in a Ugandan refugee settlement during 2017–18, this paper argues refugee residents articulated their refusal of humanitarian failure and corruption through active, largely non-political, resistance. I term the diverse strategies used 'resistant resilience', arguing that the agency central to these practices require that assumptions about resilience are reconsidered. I conclude that this refugee community's most important resilience strategies were active resistance, demonstrating that resilience can be manifested through marginalised peoples' desire to resist exploitation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *REFUGEES
*CORRUPTION
*COMMUNITIES
*PHILANTHROPISTS
*ETHNOLOGY
*DESIRE
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 13698249
- Volume :
- 24
- Issue :
- 2/3
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Civil Wars
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 160301193
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/13698249.2022.2092686