Ben Knighton
Biographic Data
| ID | 80096 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ben Knighton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ben |
| FAMILY NAME | Knighton |
| SIGNATURE | BEN KNIGHTON |
| AFFILIATIONS | Oxford Centre for Mission Studies |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0418-2011 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 41 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Disarmament: The End or Fulfillment of Cattle Raiding
The Uganda government claims that the now decade-long disarmament campaign is achieving pacification and the end of cattle raiding. Here, such claims are tested using data collected over a ten-month period between 2007 and 2008. These data show that the army is unable to prevent raiding or to recover and return more than a token number of raided livestock. The disastrous consequences of unbalanced disarmament are also considered, using material f…
The Determination of Religion in Africa
Christian Mission among Muslims: Sokoto Province, Nigeria, 1935–1990, by Mukhtar Umar Bunza. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 2007. 180 pp. £18.99 (paperback). ISBN 1 59221 523 8. Christian Churches in Dahomey-Benin: A study of their socio-political role, by Patrick Claffey. Leiden: Bril, 2007. 278 pp. €83.00 (hardback). ISBN 90 04 15572 4. African Christianity: An African story, edited by Ogbu U. Kalu. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 2007. 473 …
Religion and Politics in Kenya
Addresses the various political aspects of the Kenyan political mosaic during the time of Bishop David Gitari, later Archbishop 1997-2002. These essays focus on both this courageous man and the variou
Religion and Politics in Kenya: Essays in Honor of a Meddlesome Priest
Of War-Leaders and Fire-Makers: A Rejoinder
If there is to be a “great Karamoja debate”, then it is necessary to keep in focus the leading issues, with the constraints of historiographical and methodological concerns. Since 1990 publications on the Karamojong have in general taken the line expressed in Mirzeler and Young's abstract: “The transformation of local modes of conflict by large-scale infusion of the AK-47 has had far-reaching effects ...”. Against this trend I cite the French cri…
Globalizing Trends or Identities through Time? Thelongue duréein Karamojong1 Ethnography
Using a range of oral and documentary sources, this article presents a detailed account of how Karamojong traditions have varied over time according to historical contingencies, while retaining a strong commitment to communal will even when this runs counter to perceived global trends. The very dominance of the global discourses surrounding issues of development in the Karamojong country may sometimes drown out local voices and can seem to relega…
Belief in guns and warlords: Freeing Karamojong identity from Africanist theory
As with other nomadic pastoralists, it has been asserted that ‘the Karamoja problem’ is merely a projection of colonial violence or the side‐effects of the breakdown of the African state in the neo‐colonial age. Deductive approaches infer warlords from the presence of guns and conflict, which appear to locate contemporary culture in global commerce, thus eroding its whole traditional base. An historical approach shows the Karamojong coming to ter…
Orality in the service of Karamojong autonomy: Polity and Performance
It has been assumed by Jack Goody and others that literacy facilitates the external penetration and domination of African societies. However the case of the Karamojong in north-east Africa challenges the inevitability of the rise of literacy. Where there is no thirst for literate education, the very features of orality noted by Jack Goody function to maintain traditional politics against predations by state or global economy. The Karamojong age-c…
The State as Raider Among the Karamojong: Where There are no Guns, They use the Threat of Guns
The article brings together archival material, past ethnography, and memory on the one hand, and up-to-date eye-witness and newspaper reports on the other, to set current traumatic events in the very long view. The presentism of contemporary developmental and research approaches has precluded such perspectives. Thus the current disarmament programme being forced on the Karamojong of north-east Uganda by the Uganda People's Defence Force is no mor…
Forgiveness or Disengagement in a Traditional African Cycle of Revenge
The State as Raider Among the Karamojong: Where There are no Guns, They use the Threat of Guns
The article brings together archival material, past ethnography, and memory on the one hand, and up-to-date eye-witness and newspaper reports on the other, to set current traumatic events in the very long view. The presentism of contemporary developmental and research approaches has precluded such perspectives. Thus the current disarmament programme being forced on the Karamojong of north-east Uganda by the Uganda People's Defence Force is no mor…
Disarmament: The End or Fulfillment of Cattle Raiding
The Uganda government claims that the now decade-long disarmament campaign is achieving pacification and the end of cattle raiding. Here, such claims are tested using data collected over a ten-month period between 2007 and 2008. These data show that the army is unable to prevent raiding or to recover and return more than a token number of raided livestock. The disastrous consequences of unbalanced disarmament are also considered, using material f…
Belief in guns and warlords: Freeing Karamojong identity from Africanist theory
As with other nomadic pastoralists, it has been asserted that ‘the Karamoja problem’ is merely a projection of colonial violence or the side‐effects of the breakdown of the African state in the neo‐colonial age. Deductive approaches infer warlords from the presence of guns and conflict, which appear to locate contemporary culture in global commerce, thus eroding its whole traditional base. An historical approach shows the Karamojong coming to ter…
Orality in the service of Karamojong autonomy: Polity and Performance
It has been assumed by Jack Goody and others that literacy facilitates the external penetration and domination of African societies. However the case of the Karamojong in north-east Africa challenges the inevitability of the rise of literacy. Where there is no thirst for literate education, the very features of orality noted by Jack Goody function to maintain traditional politics against predations by state or global economy. The Karamojong age-c…
Globalizing Trends or Identities through Time? Thelongue duréein Karamojong1 Ethnography
Using a range of oral and documentary sources, this article presents a detailed account of how Karamojong traditions have varied over time according to historical contingencies, while retaining a strong commitment to communal will even when this runs counter to perceived global trends. The very dominance of the global discourses surrounding issues of development in the Karamojong country may sometimes drown out local voices and can seem to relega…
Forgiveness or Disengagement in a Traditional African Cycle of Revenge
Forgiveness or Disengagement in a Traditional African Cycle of Revenge
The State as Raider Among the Karamojong: Where There are no Guns, They use the Threat of Guns
The article brings together archival material, past ethnography, and memory on the one hand, and up-to-date eye-witness and newspaper reports on the other, to set current traumatic events in the very long view. The presentism of contemporary developmental and research approaches has precluded such perspectives. Thus the current disarmament programme being forced on the Karamojong of north-east Uganda by the Uganda People's Defence Force is no mor…
Belief in guns and warlords: Freeing Karamojong identity from Africanist theory
As with other nomadic pastoralists, it has been asserted that ‘the Karamoja problem’ is merely a projection of colonial violence or the side‐effects of the breakdown of the African state in the neo‐colonial age. Deductive approaches infer warlords from the presence of guns and conflict, which appear to locate contemporary culture in global commerce, thus eroding its whole traditional base. An historical approach shows the Karamojong coming to ter…
Orality in the service of Karamojong autonomy: Polity and Performance
It has been assumed by Jack Goody and others that literacy facilitates the external penetration and domination of African societies. However the case of the Karamojong in north-east Africa challenges the inevitability of the rise of literacy. Where there is no thirst for literate education, the very features of orality noted by Jack Goody function to maintain traditional politics against predations by state or global economy. The Karamojong age-c…
Of War-Leaders and Fire-Makers: A Rejoinder
If there is to be a “great Karamoja debate”, then it is necessary to keep in focus the leading issues, with the constraints of historiographical and methodological concerns. Since 1990 publications on the Karamojong have in general taken the line expressed in Mirzeler and Young's abstract: “The transformation of local modes of conflict by large-scale infusion of the AK-47 has had far-reaching effects ...”. Against this trend I cite the French cri…
Globalizing Trends or Identities through Time? Thelongue duréein Karamojong1 Ethnography
Using a range of oral and documentary sources, this article presents a detailed account of how Karamojong traditions have varied over time according to historical contingencies, while retaining a strong commitment to communal will even when this runs counter to perceived global trends. The very dominance of the global discourses surrounding issues of development in the Karamojong country may sometimes drown out local voices and can seem to relega…
Religion and Politics in Kenya
Addresses the various political aspects of the Kenyan political mosaic during the time of Bishop David Gitari, later Archbishop 1997-2002. These essays focus on both this courageous man and the variou
Religion and Politics in Kenya: Essays in Honor of a Meddlesome Priest
Disarmament: The End or Fulfillment of Cattle Raiding
The Uganda government claims that the now decade-long disarmament campaign is achieving pacification and the end of cattle raiding. Here, such claims are tested using data collected over a ten-month period between 2007 and 2008. These data show that the army is unable to prevent raiding or to recover and return more than a token number of raided livestock. The disastrous consequences of unbalanced disarmament are also considered, using material f…
The Determination of Religion in Africa
Christian Mission among Muslims: Sokoto Province, Nigeria, 1935–1990, by Mukhtar Umar Bunza. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 2007. 180 pp. £18.99 (paperback). ISBN 1 59221 523 8. Christian Churches in Dahomey-Benin: A study of their socio-political role, by Patrick Claffey. Leiden: Bril, 2007. 278 pp. €83.00 (hardback). ISBN 90 04 15572 4. African Christianity: An African story, edited by Ogbu U. Kalu. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 2007. 473 …
Political science (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology (6 works) · Politics (5 works) · African history and culture analysis (4 works) · History (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Colonialism (3 works) · History (3 works)