Two marriages, two speeds: Disruptions and connections in post-conflict Gulu cityscape

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dc.contributor.authorKomakech, Daniel
dc.date.accessioned2023-06-23T15:38:07Z
dc.date.available2023-06-23T15:38:07Z
dc.date.issued2021-12-15
dc.description.abstractDrawing from urban studies and conflict studies with specific focus on transitional justice sphere of return and reintegration, the paper elaborates on the existing complex disruptions and connections in coupling among former Lord’s Resistance Army returnees in Gulu city, northern Uganda. Deploying new conceptual tools, namely, the materiality and vitality of “kavera (polythene bag) that the men instrumentalise to negotiate a relationship with the women and also how women use “browning” technique (a metaphor built on a local emphasis on “brown is beautiful”) to attract and retain men, we think through coupling in the post-conflict Gulu cityscape to understand and enhance the complex dynamics involved and negotiated, making coupling among the returnees, fleeting and therefore, swinging in a centrifugal manner. Consequently, we contend that coupling amongst the returnees in the everyday cityscape of Gulu is open-ended and that the concept and the persons oscillate between "narrowing and expansion, ambiguity and precision” (AbdouMaliq and Pieterse 2017: x). In that sense, both the concept and the persons are elusive and has its own logic, with its terms of reference expanding and contracting as far as it can bend (AbdouMaliq and Pieterse 2017: 159). Therefore, instead of a normative or ideals of coupling, rather, we should think in terms of the everyday production and practices of ‘couple-making’.en_US
dc.identifier.citationKomakech, D. (2021). Two marriages, two speeds. Disruptions and connections in post-conflict Gulu cityscape. Journal of Sociology and Development, 5(1), 78–98. https://www.ajol.info/index.php/jsd/article/view/234132en_US
dc.identifier.issn2591-6955 (eISSN)
dc.identifier.issn2507-7783 (Print ISSN)
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14270/164
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherJournal of Sociology and Developmenten_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesVol. 5.;No. 1
dc.subjectReturnen_US
dc.subjectCouplingen_US
dc.subjectDisruptionen_US
dc.subjectConnectionen_US
dc.subjectGulu cityscapeen_US
dc.subjectMarriageen_US
dc.subjectConflicten_US
dc.titleTwo marriages, two speeds: Disruptions and connections in post-conflict Gulu cityscapeen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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