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Description:: Historians have long argued that humanitarianism—what Thomas Haskell once described as “alleviating the suffering of distant strangers”—first emerged in eighteenth-century Europe as part of a complex set of perceptual changes involving capitalist growth, Enlightenment ideas, and Christian values. Given these claims, it is no coincidence that humanitarianism has often been...
Keyword:: humanitarianism, refuge, Acholi, Africa, Uganda, and aid
Subject:: African history
Creator:: Edwards, Mitchell
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 08/23/2023
Date Created:: 2023-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_1012977 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16733

Description:: Regardless of where refugees are hosted, they require political knowledge of rights, restrictions, responsibilities, and the governance actors and processes who decide and uphold these. This knowledge enables refugees to comply with national laws, benefit from rights and protections, avoid rights-based exploitations and harms, and pursue life with dignity in...
Keyword:: Refugee rights, Urban refugees, Uganda, and Political knowledge
Subject:: Political science
Creator:: Kuntzelman, Christa
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 06/22/2022
Date Created:: 2022-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_897615 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16002

Description:: This dissertation examines the longue durée political history of Ateker-speaking agro-pastoralists in the semi-arid plains of today’s Uganda – Kenya – Ethiopia – South Sudan borderlands. Today’s Ateker-speaking communities include the Karimojong, Teso, Turkana, Toposa, Dodos, Jie, Nyangatom, and Jiye. Over the past millennium, Ateker-speaking communities developed a diversity of...
Keyword:: Ateker, Teso, Historical Linguistics, Karimojong, Turkana, and Uganda
Subject:: African history, Sub Saharan Africa studies, and Linguistics
Creator:: Fitzsimons, William
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/01/2021
Date Created:: 2020-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15257 and etdadmin_upload_764137

Description:: This study explores the history of Bugwere, Busoga and Buganda, societies in present-day east-central Uganda, from the late first millennium and it does so through a focus on motherhood. Motherhood - as ideology and biology - impacted on almost every aspect of life in these societies, but did so in...
Keyword:: Historical Linguistics, Gender, Precolonial History, Social Reproduction, and Uganda
Subject:: History
Creator:: Rhiannon Stephens
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 08/27/2018
Date Modified:: 08/27/2018
Date Created:: 2007-12-04
Resource Type:: Dissertation

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