Yotam Gidron
Biographic Data
| ID | 99723 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Yotam Gidron |
| GIVEN NAMES | Yotam |
| FAMILY NAME | Gidron |
| SIGNATURE | GIDRON Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | KU Leuven |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1408-7085 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Risk-Taking, Risk-Making
This article explores how different notions and manifestations of risk and uncertainty shape discussions on, and processes of, humanitarian localisation in relation to refugee-led organisations (RLOs). Focusing on South Sudanese RLOs in Uganda and their engagements with international funders and agencies, we argue that the very measures undertaken by INGOs and donors to mitigate their perceived risks of localisation in fact require their supposed…
On the Lord’s side
Returning to fund refugeehood
Return movements of refugees, even when gradual or temporary, are typically understood as part of a process of full repatriation or as a ‘strategy’ for leveraging socio-economic opportunities across borders. However, for some refugees, return is neither a step towards repatriation nor an empowering strategy. Drawing on qualitative and quantitative data from Uganda and South Sudan, this article shows how, due to gradual reductions in aid and the l…
Survivalist mobilities
This article draws upon qualitative and quantitative data from Uganda to explore the ways in which mobility supports the livelihoods of refugees in rural settlements. It shows how, under conditions of extreme precarity and against the background of gradual reductions in humanitarian aid, refugees resort to short distance ‘survivalist mobilities’ underpinned by economic desperation. While trips to urban areas are rare and infrequent, refugees regu…
Africa's Christian Zionist Frontiers
Although not a new phenomenon, over the past decade, Christian Zionist theologies that emphasise the central role of the Jewish people in divine history and call on believers to support them and the modern state of Israel have increasingly come to impact religious life and political discourse in many parts of Africa. This paper reviews this development and the limited research on it. It assesses the uptake of Christian Zionist theologies by Afric…
The Lives and Afterlives of Plastic Bags
sponsorship: FWO|12Y8923N
Durable Resolutions
Studies that examine the administration of justice in refugee camps highlight the legal plurality that commonly characterizes such sites, and the normative friction it creates between government and humanitarian institutions and community structures. Drawing upon research among South Sudanese refugees in Uganda and Ethiopia, this article foregrounds the place of transnational networks and temporal experiences in shaping processes of dispute resol…
International Organisations and “Local” Networks
Recent debates on “refugee participation” and the “localisation” of refugee programmes have focused on the potential role of refugee-led organisations. In this article, we explore the engagement of humanitarian actors with South Sudanese refugees in Gambella (western Ethiopia) in order to problematise this focus. There are no formally registered refugee-led organisations in Gambella. Community organisations operating in the region tend to be info…
Negotiating the Sounds of Born-Again Christianity
This paper discusses the role of hymns and musical practices in the articulation of Christian subjectivities among Nuer communities in western Ethiopia. It examines how the members of two fundamentalist born-again groups responded to the Pentecostalization of the local Christian soundscape over the past two decades, focusing on the distinct approaches they adopted for the production and performance of hymns and the authorization of Christian musi…
From discursive resistance to new genealogies
Scholars have commonly interpreted the emergence of claims of Israelite descent among African peoples as attempts of marginalized communities to construct empowering identities by drawing on biblical narratives. This article tries to make sense of such claims from a more emic perspective, not as an instrumental counter-discourse but as a genuine attempt to grapple with the nature of ethnic membership and the place of certain communities in relati…
Israel in Africa
Amidst the turmoil of the Middle East, few have noticed the extent to which Israel has slowly but surely been building alliances on the African continent. Facing a growing international backlash, Israel has had to look beyond its traditional Western allies for support, and many African governments in turn have been happy to receive Israeli political support, security assistance, investments and technology. But what do these relationships mean for…
One People, One Struggle
This paper explores the involvement of the Mossad, Israel's national intelligence agency, in producing propaganda materials on behalf of the Southern Sudanese rebel group Anya-Nya, between 1969 and 1971. From 1961, Southern Sudanese politicians appealed for Israeli assistance in their struggle against the Sudanese government. Israelis saw great potential for anti-Arab propaganda in the Southern cause, but did not extend any significant support to…
The Act of Reading – Children’s Rights, Children’s Literature and Transitional Justice
Tamar Verete-Zehavi’s youth novel Aftershock follows one girl’s personal process of addressing a painful past. By analysing the way the novel engages young readers, this article aims to show how children’s literature can be a site of civic socialization and ensure children’s involvement in transitional justice processes as active and autonomous agents. Reading the novel against two examples of textual outreach materials that target children and w…
The Noise Silence Makes
One People, One Struggle
This paper explores the involvement of the Mossad, Israel's national intelligence agency, in producing propaganda materials on behalf of the Southern Sudanese rebel group Anya-Nya, between 1969 and 1971. From 1961, Southern Sudanese politicians appealed for Israeli assistance in their struggle against the Sudanese government. Israelis saw great potential for anti-Arab propaganda in the Southern cause, but did not extend any significant support to…
From discursive resistance to new genealogies
Scholars have commonly interpreted the emergence of claims of Israelite descent among African peoples as attempts of marginalized communities to construct empowering identities by drawing on biblical narratives. This article tries to make sense of such claims from a more emic perspective, not as an instrumental counter-discourse but as a genuine attempt to grapple with the nature of ethnic membership and the place of certain communities in relati…
International Organisations and “Local” Networks
Recent debates on “refugee participation” and the “localisation” of refugee programmes have focused on the potential role of refugee-led organisations. In this article, we explore the engagement of humanitarian actors with South Sudanese refugees in Gambella (western Ethiopia) in order to problematise this focus. There are no formally registered refugee-led organisations in Gambella. Community organisations operating in the region tend to be info…
The Act of Reading – Children’s Rights, Children’s Literature and Transitional Justice
Tamar Verete-Zehavi’s youth novel Aftershock follows one girl’s personal process of addressing a painful past. By analysing the way the novel engages young readers, this article aims to show how children’s literature can be a site of civic socialization and ensure children’s involvement in transitional justice processes as active and autonomous agents. Reading the novel against two examples of textual outreach materials that target children and w…
Survivalist mobilities
This article draws upon qualitative and quantitative data from Uganda to explore the ways in which mobility supports the livelihoods of refugees in rural settlements. It shows how, under conditions of extreme precarity and against the background of gradual reductions in humanitarian aid, refugees resort to short distance ‘survivalist mobilities’ underpinned by economic desperation. While trips to urban areas are rare and infrequent, refugees regu…
Negotiating the Sounds of Born-Again Christianity
This paper discusses the role of hymns and musical practices in the articulation of Christian subjectivities among Nuer communities in western Ethiopia. It examines how the members of two fundamentalist born-again groups responded to the Pentecostalization of the local Christian soundscape over the past two decades, focusing on the distinct approaches they adopted for the production and performance of hymns and the authorization of Christian musi…
The Act of Reading – Children’s Rights, Children’s Literature and Transitional Justice
Tamar Verete-Zehavi’s youth novel Aftershock follows one girl’s personal process of addressing a painful past. By analysing the way the novel engages young readers, this article aims to show how children’s literature can be a site of civic socialization and ensure children’s involvement in transitional justice processes as active and autonomous agents. Reading the novel against two examples of textual outreach materials that target children and w…
One People, One Struggle
This paper explores the involvement of the Mossad, Israel's national intelligence agency, in producing propaganda materials on behalf of the Southern Sudanese rebel group Anya-Nya, between 1969 and 1971. From 1961, Southern Sudanese politicians appealed for Israeli assistance in their struggle against the Sudanese government. Israelis saw great potential for anti-Arab propaganda in the Southern cause, but did not extend any significant support to…
Israel in Africa
Amidst the turmoil of the Middle East, few have noticed the extent to which Israel has slowly but surely been building alliances on the African continent. Facing a growing international backlash, Israel has had to look beyond its traditional Western allies for support, and many African governments in turn have been happy to receive Israeli political support, security assistance, investments and technology. But what do these relationships mean for…
International Organisations and “Local” Networks
Recent debates on “refugee participation” and the “localisation” of refugee programmes have focused on the potential role of refugee-led organisations. In this article, we explore the engagement of humanitarian actors with South Sudanese refugees in Gambella (western Ethiopia) in order to problematise this focus. There are no formally registered refugee-led organisations in Gambella. Community organisations operating in the region tend to be info…
Negotiating the Sounds of Born-Again Christianity
This paper discusses the role of hymns and musical practices in the articulation of Christian subjectivities among Nuer communities in western Ethiopia. It examines how the members of two fundamentalist born-again groups responded to the Pentecostalization of the local Christian soundscape over the past two decades, focusing on the distinct approaches they adopted for the production and performance of hymns and the authorization of Christian musi…
From discursive resistance to new genealogies
Scholars have commonly interpreted the emergence of claims of Israelite descent among African peoples as attempts of marginalized communities to construct empowering identities by drawing on biblical narratives. This article tries to make sense of such claims from a more emic perspective, not as an instrumental counter-discourse but as a genuine attempt to grapple with the nature of ethnic membership and the place of certain communities in relati…
Durable Resolutions
Studies that examine the administration of justice in refugee camps highlight the legal plurality that commonly characterizes such sites, and the normative friction it creates between government and humanitarian institutions and community structures. Drawing upon research among South Sudanese refugees in Uganda and Ethiopia, this article foregrounds the place of transnational networks and temporal experiences in shaping processes of dispute resol…
The Noise Silence Makes
Survivalist mobilities
This article draws upon qualitative and quantitative data from Uganda to explore the ways in which mobility supports the livelihoods of refugees in rural settlements. It shows how, under conditions of extreme precarity and against the background of gradual reductions in humanitarian aid, refugees resort to short distance ‘survivalist mobilities’ underpinned by economic desperation. While trips to urban areas are rare and infrequent, refugees regu…
Africa's Christian Zionist Frontiers
Although not a new phenomenon, over the past decade, Christian Zionist theologies that emphasise the central role of the Jewish people in divine history and call on believers to support them and the modern state of Israel have increasingly come to impact religious life and political discourse in many parts of Africa. This paper reviews this development and the limited research on it. It assesses the uptake of Christian Zionist theologies by Afric…
The Lives and Afterlives of Plastic Bags
sponsorship: FWO|12Y8923N
Risk-Taking, Risk-Making
This article explores how different notions and manifestations of risk and uncertainty shape discussions on, and processes of, humanitarian localisation in relation to refugee-led organisations (RLOs). Focusing on South Sudanese RLOs in Uganda and their engagements with international funders and agencies, we argue that the very measures undertaken by INGOs and donors to mitigate their perceived risks of localisation in fact require their supposed…
On the Lord’s side
Returning to fund refugeehood
Return movements of refugees, even when gradual or temporary, are typically understood as part of a process of full repatriation or as a ‘strategy’ for leveraging socio-economic opportunities across borders. However, for some refugees, return is neither a step towards repatriation nor an empowering strategy. Drawing on qualitative and quantitative data from Uganda and South Sudan, this article shows how, due to gradual reductions in aid and the l…
Political science (10 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Law (6 works) · Geography (4 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Social science (4 works) · African history and culture analysis (3 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (3 works)