This book focuses on returned former child soldiers of the so-called Lord’s Re-sistance Army (LRA) in northern Uganda, and their reintegration into public, occu-pational and family life. In the last chapter (chapter5), we will compare their history and present situation with that of ex-rebels in the neighboring region of West Nile, and discuss the instructive similarities and differ…
Between 1935 and 1943, the city of Salvador, Bahia, received the attention of numerous foreign scholars and intellectuals, all of them impressed – if not seduced – by its “magic”, largely the result of its black popular culture. They included Donald Pierson (1900–1995), Robert Park1 (1864–1944), Ruth Landes (1908–1991), Lorenzo Dow Turner (18…
“We have fulfilled our mission; the humanitarian dismantling operation is over,” announced Fabienne Buccio, Préfète of Pas-de-Calais, on Thursday 27 October 2016.1 Her words described the completion of an episode, a supposed end to the ‘Jungle’. But in reality this speech marked the end of neither the ‘Jungles’ of Calais nor the ongoing experience of displaced people in H…
Humans increasingly perform like dressaged animals since the second half of the twentieth century. As it seems impossible to live, move, and work to-gether without harming other animals under competitive capitalism, there has been a trend to increasingly include animals—whether human imita-tions, real, or mediated—in the visual and performing arts since the late 1960s. …
Adoption entails the permanent transfer of legal rights and responsibili-ties for a child from birth parents to adoptive parents. Inevitably, such a procedure can be controversial, for adoption has a profound and perma-nent impact on the lives of all the parties involved—the child, the birth parents and the adoptive parents, as well as grandparents, siblings and other relations on …
In 2009, popular writer Daniel Bergner published two articles on the com-plexities of female sexuality and desire in the New York Times Magazine. The first, published in January 2009, was titled “What Do Women Want?” and the second, published later that year, in November, “Women Who Want to Want.” It was in these two popular pieces, over a de…
n a large cement building on a remote part of Camp Atterbury army base in south-central Indiana, a group of US soldiers prepares to visit a mock Afghan village. The village, part of a simulation, is populated by privately contracted role players acting as Afghan farmers, merchants, religious figures, elders, and other villagers. As part of their predeployment training, the soldiers will survey…
This book sets out with a programmatic agenda to find new ways of “speaking for the social” in projects of technical and infrastructural change. It takes as its starting point the ongoing challenge of com-munication between scholars in the social sciences and humanities who study the social dimensions of technical and infrastructure projects, and those working in engineering and policy who …
Caring is Sharing? explores why and how mixed-sex couples make decisions around parental leave at the transition to parenthood, and how these decisions shape their work and family care practices during and after the leave period. It does this through a longitudinal qualitative comparative analysis of mixed-sex parent couples in England who do and do not share parental leave after the birth of t…
There were a few pages about Peñón de los Baños on the internet, and my guide-book also briefly mentioned it. I had thought it would be more important, con-sidering the presence of Peñón in the historical documents I was collecting in the archives downtown. Real hot springs in the middle of Mexico City—naturewas difficult to locate amidst the densest …