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Pastoral politics in the northeast periphery in Uganda: AK-47 as change agent
Ist Teil von
The Journal of modern African studies, 2000-09, Vol.38 (3), p.407-429
Ort / Verlag
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Erscheinungsjahr
2000
Quelle
Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
Beschreibungen/Notizen
Our aim in this article is to contribute to understanding the effects of firearms
on the relationship between the state and pastoral communities in contemporary
northeast Uganda. The Karamoja region has from early colonial
times been a peripheral zone. Although successive post-colonial regimes have
made episodic efforts to incorporate this zone more fully into Ugandan
national space, relations between Karamoja and the centre remain distant
and distrustful. The transformation of local modes of conflict by large-scale
infusion of the AK-47 has had far-reaching effects both on relationships with
the Ugandan state and its local representatives, and within Karamoja
societies. The younger men who possess these weapons elude the authority of
the elders, and entertain ambiguous relations with the state authorities,
whom they may serve as auxiliaries or resist.