After Rape Violence Justice And Social Harmony In Uganda 1st Edition Holly Porter by Holly Porter 9781316841297, 1316841294 instant download after payment.

Following the ICC intervention in 2005, northern Uganda has been at the heart of international justice debates. The emergent controversy, however, missed crucial aspects of Acholi realities: that the primary moral imperative in the wake of wrongdoing was not punishment but, instead, the restoration of social harmony. Drawing upon abundant fieldwork and in-depth interviews with almost 200 women, Holly Porter examines issues surrounding wrongdoing and justice, and sexual violence and rape, among the Acholi people in northern Uganda. This intricate exploration offers evidence of a more complicated and nuanced explanation of rape and its aftermath, suggesting a re-imagining of the meanings of post-atrocity justice, whilst acknowledging the role of sex, power and politics in all sexual experiences between coercion and consent. With its wide investigation of social life in northern Uganda, this provocative study offers vital analysis for those interested in sexual and gender violence, post-conflict reconstruction and human rights.

• *Proposes a new view of sexual violence in war, appealing to those who are tired of familiar analytical/normative frameworks in post-atrocity justice debates or anti-rape feminist activist discourse
• *Draws upon extensive fieldwork and case studies of up to 200 women, thus presenting unique empirical material in this ethnography of rape
• *Deals with currently fashionable topics ('transitional justice', the ICC, and sexual violence in war), whilst also addressing some of the most classic questions in anthropology and beyond (violence, kinship, healing, gender, social order, and justice)