Rural radicalism and the tactic of third-party leverage : how acholi peasants drew a UN agency into their struggle against land-grabbing by the Ugandan state
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- Tessa Laing and Sara Weschler (UGent)
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- This article analyzes a 2018 protest instigated by rural activists in northern Uganda, who chose to contest violent state-driven evictions by peacefully occupying a UN compound in the urban center of Gulu. With their contribution to this ASR forum on rural radicalism, Laing and Weschler argue that in militarized contexts such as Uganda, remote geographies present rural political actors pursuing radical goals with certain advantages but also unique challenges. The case they examine demonstrates the capacity of rural activists to draw on rural-urban ties and a tactic they have dubbed "third-party leverage" to imaginatively circumvent such constraints.
- Keywords
- Anthropology, Cultural Studies, Acholi, northern Uganda, land rights, resistance, third-party leverage, nonviolence, rural radicalism, state violence, human rights, UN, RESISTANCE, MOVEMENTS, APPROPRIATION, RESPONSES, POLITICS, TARGETS, AFRICA, INDIA
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Please use this url to cite or link to this publication: http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-01HNZFYTRASQV3Y2TFFQSMX260
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- Laing, Tessa, and Sara Weschler. “Rural Radicalism and the Tactic of Third-Party Leverage : How Acholi Peasants Drew a UN Agency into Their Struggle against Land-Grabbing by the Ugandan State.” AFRICAN STUDIES REVIEW, vol. 67, no. 1, 2024, pp. 38–66, doi:10.1017/asr.2023.99.
- APA
- Laing, T., & Weschler, S. (2024). Rural radicalism and the tactic of third-party leverage : how acholi peasants drew a UN agency into their struggle against land-grabbing by the Ugandan state. AFRICAN STUDIES REVIEW, 67(1), 38–66. https://doi.org/10.1017/asr.2023.99
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- Laing, Tessa, and Sara Weschler. 2024. “Rural Radicalism and the Tactic of Third-Party Leverage : How Acholi Peasants Drew a UN Agency into Their Struggle against Land-Grabbing by the Ugandan State.” AFRICAN STUDIES REVIEW 67 (1): 38–66. https://doi.org/10.1017/asr.2023.99.
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- Laing, Tessa, and Sara Weschler. 2024. “Rural Radicalism and the Tactic of Third-Party Leverage : How Acholi Peasants Drew a UN Agency into Their Struggle against Land-Grabbing by the Ugandan State.” AFRICAN STUDIES REVIEW 67 (1): 38–66. doi:10.1017/asr.2023.99.
- Vancouver
- 1.Laing T, Weschler S. Rural radicalism and the tactic of third-party leverage : how acholi peasants drew a UN agency into their struggle against land-grabbing by the Ugandan state. AFRICAN STUDIES REVIEW. 2024;67(1):38–66.
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- [1]T. Laing and S. Weschler, “Rural radicalism and the tactic of third-party leverage : how acholi peasants drew a UN agency into their struggle against land-grabbing by the Ugandan state,” AFRICAN STUDIES REVIEW, vol. 67, no. 1, pp. 38–66, 2024.
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title = {{Rural radicalism and the tactic of third-party leverage : how acholi peasants drew a UN agency into their struggle against land-grabbing by the Ugandan state}},
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