Anna Macdonald
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 143149 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Anna Macdonald |
| NOMBRES | Anna |
| APELLIDO | Macdonald |
| FIRMA | MACDONALD A |
| AFILIACIONES | London School of Economics and Political Science |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8873-003X |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 16 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 59 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 16 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2006 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
A moving research method
With our short intervention we hope to contribute to the exciting debates that create and define the growing field of dance/law research. We start by introducing our Choreography of Consent research network as a new platform for supporting existing and future research at the intersections of law and dance. In turn we reflect on how such mapping and platforming work remains challenging as it demands an especially vigilant, caring and consistent re…
Witnessing Ongwen
The trial of Dominic Ongwen before the International Criminal Court (ICC) has been hailed as a milestone, especially because of his conviction for gender-based crimes, including forced marriage and forced pregnancy. Ongwen’s conviction for those crimes was linked to harrowing testimonies of a group of women who were given to him as so-called ‘wives’ during his time as a commander in the Lord’s Resistance Army rebel group. After a successful Artic…
Explaining youth political mobilization and its absence
What explains youth political mobilization in Uganda – or lack thereof? This article challenges the simple dichotomy of youth as either a dangerous or disengaged political constituency. Instead, we analyze the conditions that determine whether youth can coalesce as a politically salient category. For many, the outcome of the 2021 Ugandan elections defied expectations. A large and underemployed youth population combined with the emergence of self-…
Maybe we should take the legal ways
Lower state courts are the focus of both international and national access to justice policies and programs but remain understudied in Uganda. Drawing on 3 years of ethnographically informed research on citizen engagement with a busy magistrates' court in post-war northern Uganda, we show the diverse reasons why citizens appeal to the rule-of-law in places where state authority is contested. In a context of limited statehood, against a backdrop o…
Crisis responses, opportunity, and public authority during Covid‐19's first wave in Uganda, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and South Sudan
Discussions on African responses to Covid‐19 have focused on the state and its international backers. Far less is known about a wider range of public authorities, including chiefs, humanitarians, criminal gangs, and armed groups. This paper investigates how the pandemic provided opportunities for claims to and contests over power in Uganda, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and South Sudan. Ethnographic research is used to contend that local …
Witness
No abstract available
The Politics of Return
By 2019, a record high of 79.5 million people were forcibly displaced worldwide as a result of persecution, conflict, violence, and human rights violations (UNHCR 2020a: 2). In the decade leading up to this only a fraction of this number were able to ‘return’ or find a ‘durable solution’. Multiple waves of displacement are common, and ‘return’ often involves far more complicated arrangements than the term suggests. Yet if ‘return’, as a one-direc…
A summons to the magistrates’ courts in South Africa and Uganda
The expansive literature on law and justice across Africa emphasizes why people do not use lower state courts. Consequently, a striking lack of attention is paid to how and why people do engage with lower state courts. Drawing on a systematic literature review and a multi-sited qualitative study, we make three contributions on this topic. First, we explore how this academic gap emerged. Second, we critique the procedural justice model that curren…
Somehow This Whole Process Became so Artificial’
∞ This article explores a key challenge in contemporary international efforts to promote transitional justice (TJ) in nontransitioning, conflict-affected states: the ‘implementation gap,’ in which policies are designed and funded but neither enacted nor implemented. Findings based on long-term qualitative fieldwork in Uganda indicate the implementation gap is co-constituted by technocratic donor approaches and domestic elite political maneuvering…
Being Normal
The literature on Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) returnees in Acholiland, northern Uganda tells us that those who returned from the rebel group are likely to experience stigma and social exclusion. While the term is deployed frequently, ‘stigma’ is not a well-developed concept and most of the evidence we have comes from accounts of returnees themselves. Focusing instead on the ‘stigmatizers’, this article theorizes stigmatization as part of the ‘mo…
Transitional Justice and Political Economies of Survival in Post-conflict Northern Uganda
This article explores the interplay between transitional justice and 'everyday' political economies of survival in post-conflict Acholiland, northern Uganda. It advances two main arguments. First, that transitional justice - as part and parcel of conventional liberal peacebuilding packages - promotes a repertoire of normatively driven policies that have little bearing on lived realities of social accountability in post-conflict settings. Second, …
"In the interests of justice?" The International Criminal Court, peace talks and the failed quest for war crimes accountability in northern Uganda
This article analyzes the first peace talks to take place against the backdrop of an International Criminal Court (ICC) investigation: the Juba Talks between the Lord’s Resistance Army and the Government of Uganda (2006–2008). Drawing on field research and original source material, it departs from well-worn peace versus justice debates and provides new empirical material to explore how the presence of the court shaped domestic political dynamics …
The Trial of Thomas Kwoyelo
The trial of Thomas Kwoyelo - the first war crimes prosecution of a former Lord's Resistance Army fighter, and the only domestic war crimes prosecution in Uganda at the time of writing - has been packed with drama, intrigue and politics. The article considers what Kwoyelo's trial means for those most affected by the crimes he allegedly committed, and, more broadly, what it means for the 'transitional justice' project in Uganda. The article is con…
From the Ground Up
Since the early 1990s, transitional justice has established itself as a field of study and practice. Proponents make normative links between transitional justice processes-for example, criminal trials, truth commissions and reparations-and broader societal and systemic outcomes, such as healing, reconciliation, peace and democracy. There is, however, a paucity of evidence on the actual effects and experiences of transitional justice interventions…
Things that start slowly
This article looks at the relationship of Screendance, time and loss through an analysis of a film triptych, made in 2010, called Things that start slowly . With particular reference to Mulvey’s Death 24x a Second: Stillness and the Moving Image (2006) , the discussion focuses on the way movement and stillness in Screendance resonate with the temporality of grief
Migration and Development
There is growing consensus that international migration can have important impacts on development, and that it is important to develop appropriate and effective policy interventions that will help realize the full potential of international migration. This will require devising measures to harness the developmental potential that emigration from developing countries can bring while, at the same time, ensuring that the depletion of highly skilled …
Being Normal
The literature on Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) returnees in Acholiland, northern Uganda tells us that those who returned from the rebel group are likely to experience stigma and social exclusion. While the term is deployed frequently, ‘stigma’ is not a well-developed concept and most of the evidence we have comes from accounts of returnees themselves. Focusing instead on the ‘stigmatizers’, this article theorizes stigmatization as part of the ‘mo…
The Trial of Thomas Kwoyelo
The trial of Thomas Kwoyelo - the first war crimes prosecution of a former Lord's Resistance Army fighter, and the only domestic war crimes prosecution in Uganda at the time of writing - has been packed with drama, intrigue and politics. The article considers what Kwoyelo's trial means for those most affected by the crimes he allegedly committed, and, more broadly, what it means for the 'transitional justice' project in Uganda. The article is con…
Explaining youth political mobilization and its absence
What explains youth political mobilization in Uganda – or lack thereof? This article challenges the simple dichotomy of youth as either a dangerous or disengaged political constituency. Instead, we analyze the conditions that determine whether youth can coalesce as a politically salient category. For many, the outcome of the 2021 Ugandan elections defied expectations. A large and underemployed youth population combined with the emergence of self-…
The Politics of Return
By 2019, a record high of 79.5 million people were forcibly displaced worldwide as a result of persecution, conflict, violence, and human rights violations (UNHCR 2020a: 2). In the decade leading up to this only a fraction of this number were able to ‘return’ or find a ‘durable solution’. Multiple waves of displacement are common, and ‘return’ often involves far more complicated arrangements than the term suggests. Yet if ‘return’, as a one-direc…
From the Ground Up
Since the early 1990s, transitional justice has established itself as a field of study and practice. Proponents make normative links between transitional justice processes-for example, criminal trials, truth commissions and reparations-and broader societal and systemic outcomes, such as healing, reconciliation, peace and democracy. There is, however, a paucity of evidence on the actual effects and experiences of transitional justice interventions…
Transitional Justice and Political Economies of Survival in Post-conflict Northern Uganda
This article explores the interplay between transitional justice and 'everyday' political economies of survival in post-conflict Acholiland, northern Uganda. It advances two main arguments. First, that transitional justice - as part and parcel of conventional liberal peacebuilding packages - promotes a repertoire of normatively driven policies that have little bearing on lived realities of social accountability in post-conflict settings. Second, …
"In the interests of justice?" The International Criminal Court, peace talks and the failed quest for war crimes accountability in northern Uganda
This article analyzes the first peace talks to take place against the backdrop of an International Criminal Court (ICC) investigation: the Juba Talks between the Lord’s Resistance Army and the Government of Uganda (2006–2008). Drawing on field research and original source material, it departs from well-worn peace versus justice debates and provides new empirical material to explore how the presence of the court shaped domestic political dynamics …
Maybe we should take the legal ways
Lower state courts are the focus of both international and national access to justice policies and programs but remain understudied in Uganda. Drawing on 3 years of ethnographically informed research on citizen engagement with a busy magistrates' court in post-war northern Uganda, we show the diverse reasons why citizens appeal to the rule-of-law in places where state authority is contested. In a context of limited statehood, against a backdrop o…
Somehow This Whole Process Became so Artificial’
∞ This article explores a key challenge in contemporary international efforts to promote transitional justice (TJ) in nontransitioning, conflict-affected states: the ‘implementation gap,’ in which policies are designed and funded but neither enacted nor implemented. Findings based on long-term qualitative fieldwork in Uganda indicate the implementation gap is co-constituted by technocratic donor approaches and domestic elite political maneuvering…
A summons to the magistrates’ courts in South Africa and Uganda
The expansive literature on law and justice across Africa emphasizes why people do not use lower state courts. Consequently, a striking lack of attention is paid to how and why people do engage with lower state courts. Drawing on a systematic literature review and a multi-sited qualitative study, we make three contributions on this topic. First, we explore how this academic gap emerged. Second, we critique the procedural justice model that curren…
Migration and Development
There is growing consensus that international migration can have important impacts on development, and that it is important to develop appropriate and effective policy interventions that will help realize the full potential of international migration. This will require devising measures to harness the developmental potential that emigration from developing countries can bring while, at the same time, ensuring that the depletion of highly skilled …
Things that start slowly
This article looks at the relationship of Screendance, time and loss through an analysis of a film triptych, made in 2010, called Things that start slowly . With particular reference to Mulvey’s Death 24x a Second: Stillness and the Moving Image (2006) , the discussion focuses on the way movement and stillness in Screendance resonate with the temporality of grief
From the Ground Up
Since the early 1990s, transitional justice has established itself as a field of study and practice. Proponents make normative links between transitional justice processes-for example, criminal trials, truth commissions and reparations-and broader societal and systemic outcomes, such as healing, reconciliation, peace and democracy. There is, however, a paucity of evidence on the actual effects and experiences of transitional justice interventions…
The Trial of Thomas Kwoyelo
The trial of Thomas Kwoyelo - the first war crimes prosecution of a former Lord's Resistance Army fighter, and the only domestic war crimes prosecution in Uganda at the time of writing - has been packed with drama, intrigue and politics. The article considers what Kwoyelo's trial means for those most affected by the crimes he allegedly committed, and, more broadly, what it means for the 'transitional justice' project in Uganda. The article is con…
Transitional Justice and Political Economies of Survival in Post-conflict Northern Uganda
This article explores the interplay between transitional justice and 'everyday' political economies of survival in post-conflict Acholiland, northern Uganda. It advances two main arguments. First, that transitional justice - as part and parcel of conventional liberal peacebuilding packages - promotes a repertoire of normatively driven policies that have little bearing on lived realities of social accountability in post-conflict settings. Second, …
"In the interests of justice?" The International Criminal Court, peace talks and the failed quest for war crimes accountability in northern Uganda
This article analyzes the first peace talks to take place against the backdrop of an International Criminal Court (ICC) investigation: the Juba Talks between the Lord’s Resistance Army and the Government of Uganda (2006–2008). Drawing on field research and original source material, it departs from well-worn peace versus justice debates and provides new empirical material to explore how the presence of the court shaped domestic political dynamics …
Somehow This Whole Process Became so Artificial’
∞ This article explores a key challenge in contemporary international efforts to promote transitional justice (TJ) in nontransitioning, conflict-affected states: the ‘implementation gap,’ in which policies are designed and funded but neither enacted nor implemented. Findings based on long-term qualitative fieldwork in Uganda indicate the implementation gap is co-constituted by technocratic donor approaches and domestic elite political maneuvering…
Being Normal
The literature on Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) returnees in Acholiland, northern Uganda tells us that those who returned from the rebel group are likely to experience stigma and social exclusion. While the term is deployed frequently, ‘stigma’ is not a well-developed concept and most of the evidence we have comes from accounts of returnees themselves. Focusing instead on the ‘stigmatizers’, this article theorizes stigmatization as part of the ‘mo…
Witness
No abstract available
The Politics of Return
By 2019, a record high of 79.5 million people were forcibly displaced worldwide as a result of persecution, conflict, violence, and human rights violations (UNHCR 2020a: 2). In the decade leading up to this only a fraction of this number were able to ‘return’ or find a ‘durable solution’. Multiple waves of displacement are common, and ‘return’ often involves far more complicated arrangements than the term suggests. Yet if ‘return’, as a one-direc…
A summons to the magistrates’ courts in South Africa and Uganda
The expansive literature on law and justice across Africa emphasizes why people do not use lower state courts. Consequently, a striking lack of attention is paid to how and why people do engage with lower state courts. Drawing on a systematic literature review and a multi-sited qualitative study, we make three contributions on this topic. First, we explore how this academic gap emerged. Second, we critique the procedural justice model that curren…
Crisis responses, opportunity, and public authority during Covid‐19's first wave in Uganda, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and South Sudan
Discussions on African responses to Covid‐19 have focused on the state and its international backers. Far less is known about a wider range of public authorities, including chiefs, humanitarians, criminal gangs, and armed groups. This paper investigates how the pandemic provided opportunities for claims to and contests over power in Uganda, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and South Sudan. Ethnographic research is used to contend that local …
Maybe we should take the legal ways
Lower state courts are the focus of both international and national access to justice policies and programs but remain understudied in Uganda. Drawing on 3 years of ethnographically informed research on citizen engagement with a busy magistrates' court in post-war northern Uganda, we show the diverse reasons why citizens appeal to the rule-of-law in places where state authority is contested. In a context of limited statehood, against a backdrop o…
Explaining youth political mobilization and its absence
What explains youth political mobilization in Uganda – or lack thereof? This article challenges the simple dichotomy of youth as either a dangerous or disengaged political constituency. Instead, we analyze the conditions that determine whether youth can coalesce as a politically salient category. For many, the outcome of the 2021 Ugandan elections defied expectations. A large and underemployed youth population combined with the emergence of self-…
Witnessing Ongwen
The trial of Dominic Ongwen before the International Criminal Court (ICC) has been hailed as a milestone, especially because of his conviction for gender-based crimes, including forced marriage and forced pregnancy. Ongwen’s conviction for those crimes was linked to harrowing testimonies of a group of women who were given to him as so-called ‘wives’ during his time as a commander in the Lord’s Resistance Army rebel group. After a successful Artic…
A moving research method
With our short intervention we hope to contribute to the exciting debates that create and define the growing field of dance/law research. We start by introducing our Choreography of Consent research network as a new platform for supporting existing and future research at the intersections of law and dance. In turn we reflect on how such mapping and platforming work remains challenging as it demands an especially vigilant, caring and consistent re…
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