Gender, home & identity : Nuer repatriation to Southern Sudan /
Analyses the experiences of exile and return of Nuer women and men of all ages and how they negotiate and reshape gender identities and relations in the context of prolonged war and violence.
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| Language: | English |
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Oxford :
James Currey,
2014.
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| Series: | Eastern African studies (London, England)
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- Frontcover; Contents; List of Maps and Photographs; Preface; Acknowledgements; Glossary of Nuer Terms; Acronyms; 1. Returnee Dilemmas: Dangerous Trousers and Threatening Mini-skirts; Gender and generational relations in flux; Gendered displacement: why does it matter?; Historical and feminist ethnography across places and spaces; Gender relations in displacement and emplacement; Nuer women and men's gendered encounters with displacement, emplacement and 'modernities'; Transforming gendered self through seasons; 2. Jiom
- Season of Fighting and Running: Conflict, Mobility, Gender.
- 'Which wars do you want me to talk about?': narratives of warsWar costs: mass displacement and diverse mobility; Women and men: war and violence; The wind and the change; 3. Mai
- Season of Displacement: Becoming 'Modern' in Kakuma; 'Modernity', global humanitarianism, gender and generations; Kakuma and arrival of a new custom: cieng mi pai ben; People who have awoken: gendered and generational identities; Contesting gender power, ideology and 'our culture'; Aspirations and contradictions; 4. Rwil: Season of 'Returns'; Nyakuol and Kuok; Movement, place and gendered emplacement.
- Diasporic returns, place and 'home'We cannot be the same Nuer as our parents: the irreversibility of displacement, home and being in flux; 5. Season of Settling-in: Land and Livelihoods; Nyakuol: becoming men; Imagined and lived 'homes' and return; Nyuuri piny: gendered settling-in; 'When women become men': accessing livelihoods; Are women really becoming men?; 6. Tot
- Gendered Emplacement: Identities, Ideologies and Marriage; Kuem and Nyarial: suits, trousers, mini-skirts and learning to wear a tuac.
- Gender identities, ideologies and 'self' in flux: the experience of 'homecoming' and settling-inSettling-in and marriage; Gendered emplacement: gender relations in-flux; Changing the landscapes of post-war communities; 7. Returnees as Visitors and the Nuer Community: Where Do We Go From Here?; Dilemmas about social life in flux; Anthropology of disorder and social theory; 'Homemaking' and implications for the study of return migration; Gendered displacement, emplacement and implications for theories of social change.
- Gender theories, displacement and implications for gender mainstreaming policiesRefugees and home in flux; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index.
