Käte Hamburger Lecture with Fellow Tabitha Naisiko
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Innovation Center, Campus Saarbrücken, Building A2 1, seminar room 3.05.1
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ENGLISH
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The Käte Hamburger Centre for Cultural Practices of Reparation (CURE) and the CEUS | Cluster for European Studies warmly invite you to attend the next Käte Hamburger Lecture at Saarland University. This series allows fellows from the centre to share their latest research perspectives on cultural practices of reparation. After the lectures, audience members will have the opportunity to engage with key topics in more detail during a public discussion session.
Tabitha Naisiko: “We are reduced to women” …. “We are just mere rats”: Reflections on the Post Disarmament Livelihood Sources and Gender Disparities in the Karamoja Region of Uganda
The outcries of the men in the title are due to an anthropological lack in the post-disarmament development strategies. This specifically applies to the mismanagement of gender relations. The Karamoja Question persists because the post-disarmament development organizations prioritize women as change agents. This approach created gender disparities that resulted in a masculinities crisis. Consequently, gender as a social structure became dysfunctional and women have ended up being overwhelmed with both productive and reproductive roles while men are grappling with alcohol, violence, and social lethargy. These conditions impede sustainable development. Anthropologically, gender is a vibrant social structure that determines the system of community governance and management of resources. Therefore, development interventions ought to analyse and incorporate accepted gender relations if they are to succeed in their programs. To resolve the distress, it is recommended that the development agencies integrate social norms to enable hybrid approaches that will be socially acceptable. This is because all matters of the Karamojong lifestyle revolve around participation and respect through dialogue and consensus.
The Käte Hamburger Lectures provide deeper insight into the centre’s ongoing research, convey these ideas to the wider university community, and invite the public to engage in meaningful discussions on cultural practices of reparation.
Registration for online participation: kontakt@khk.uni-saarland.de
