Decolonizing gender through combining ethnographic and historical research with discovery-based pedagogies in post-civil war Northern Uganda /
This case study is based on a project from northern Uganda's Acholiland, starting in 2007. Its initial research phase was implemented in two villages in Gulu District after the civil war against the Lord's Resistance Army, followed by a grassroots education phase aimed at supporting post-c...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London :
SAGE Publications Ltd,
2024.
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| Series: | SAGE Research methods: diversifying and decolonizing research.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | This case study is based on a project from northern Uganda's Acholiland, starting in 2007. Its initial research phase was implemented in two villages in Gulu District after the civil war against the Lord's Resistance Army, followed by a grassroots education phase aimed at supporting post-conflict psychosocial rehabilitation, and finally post-project evaluations. The study demonstrates the importance of understanding context, including by examining historical antecedents, and of using discovery-based rather than didactic pedagogies to encourage participants to gain self-determination by devising their own solutions to their problems. The project data consist of the historical material, reports on the two project phases, and the evaluation findings. We particularly addressed the impact of participatory gender analysis in shifting the rigid norms of masculinity and femininity resulting from (neo)colonialism and Christianization and found that encouraging men to renounce some of their masculine prerogatives produced a far greater benefit for women than supporting women to press for their rights. This approach went some way toward decolonizing gender, enhanced by the overall focus on rejecting a narrow materialistic view of development in favor of placing human beings above economics. However, it is clearly impossible and, indeed, undesirable in today's capitalist-based world to return to the precolonial.The case study further provides guidance for future research by explaining the importance of moving beyond Western gender theory that views women's disadvantages as universal and of focusing on the unarticulated practices that heighten women's power in southern societies rather than assuming that public discourse accurately reflects women's real-life status. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
| ISBN: | 9781529684414 1529684412 |