Holly Porter

After Rape

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Produktbeschreibung

Holly Porter explores wrongdoing and justice, and sexual violence and rape, among the Acholi people in northern Uganda.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Februar 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 551g
• ISBN-13: 9781107180048
• ISBN-10: 110718004X
• Artikelnr.: 45153733

Autorenporträt

Holly Porter is a Research Fellow at the Department of International Development at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and lead researcher for the Justice and Security Research Programme in northern Uganda, where she has lived and worked for over ten years. Dr Porter's research has focused on gender, sexualities and sexual violence, war and violence, and local notions of healing and justice. Her work has been published in journals including Africa, the Women's Studies International Forum, and the Journal of Eastern African Studies.

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1. Introduction
2. Life and participant reflection in northern Uganda
3. Rape, wrongdoing and justice
4. Acholi love: sex and social belonging
5. Consent and rape: when does 'no' mean no?
6. Social harmony and the space between local solutions and formal judicial system
7. Mango trees, offices and altars
8. Comparing the aftermath of civilian and combatant rape
9. Conclusion: medicine and lightning
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