Samuel Meyerson
Biographic Data
| ID | 193188 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Samuel Meyerson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Samuel |
| FAMILY NAME | Meyerson |
| SIGNATURE | MEYERSON S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3788-3188 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Broken Bones, Buried Bullets, and Honest Money: Peacemaking, Innovation, and History in Karamoja, Uganda
A focus on indigenous mechanisms of conflict resolution and reconciliation has influenced many international peacebuilding and transitional justice interventions since the turn of the twenty-first century. Scholarly analyses and policy proposals concerning indigenous peacebuilding, however, tend to reproduce two-dimensional images of fossilized tradition, rather than reckoning with ongoing processes of adaptation and creativity. This article offe…
Far From Ypres: Colonial Violence and the Shadow of the Great War in Turkana
Natives Around the Township”: State Spaces and the Struggle for Karamoja's Future, 1950–66
At the moment of independence, the Karamoja region of northeastern Uganda occupied a unique position within the Ugandan state. Local communities existed largely outside the sovereignty of the state and remained disinvested from its politico-economic institutions, and policymakers saw Karamoja as a problematic challenge to their agendas of development, security, and nation-building. I contend that, in the years surrounding Uganda's independence, g…
A Reason Not to Belong: Political Decentralization, Intercommunal Relations, and Changing Identities in Northeastern Uganda
Abim district, located in Uganda's Karamoja region, is one of the scores of new administrative units created under the country's decentralization policy. The establishment of Abim district in 2006, following decades of conflict in northern Uganda, was accompanied by changes in ethnic identity within local communities of Ethur farmers. Based on oral history fieldwork in Abim, Meyerson documents these changes in sociopolitical identification among …
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A Reason Not to Belong: Political Decentralization, Intercommunal Relations, and Changing Identities in Northeastern Uganda
Abim district, located in Uganda's Karamoja region, is one of the scores of new administrative units created under the country's decentralization policy. The establishment of Abim district in 2006, following decades of conflict in northern Uganda, was accompanied by changes in ethnic identity within local communities of Ethur farmers. Based on oral history fieldwork in Abim, Meyerson documents these changes in sociopolitical identification among …
Natives Around the Township”: State Spaces and the Struggle for Karamoja's Future, 1950–66
At the moment of independence, the Karamoja region of northeastern Uganda occupied a unique position within the Ugandan state. Local communities existed largely outside the sovereignty of the state and remained disinvested from its politico-economic institutions, and policymakers saw Karamoja as a problematic challenge to their agendas of development, security, and nation-building. I contend that, in the years surrounding Uganda's independence, g…
Far From Ypres: Colonial Violence and the Shadow of the Great War in Turkana
Broken Bones, Buried Bullets, and Honest Money: Peacemaking, Innovation, and History in Karamoja, Uganda
A focus on indigenous mechanisms of conflict resolution and reconciliation has influenced many international peacebuilding and transitional justice interventions since the turn of the twenty-first century. Scholarly analyses and policy proposals concerning indigenous peacebuilding, however, tend to reproduce two-dimensional images of fossilized tradition, rather than reckoning with ongoing processes of adaptation and creativity. This article offe…
Indigenous (3 works) · African history and culture analysis (2 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (2 works) · Colonialism (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Politics (2 works)