T Allen
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 9655 |
|---|---|
| NOME | T Allen |
| PRENOMES | T |
| SOBRENOME | Allen |
| ASSINATURA | ALLEN T |
| AFILIAÇÕES | London School of Economics and Political Science |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1866-0181 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 58 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 225 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 58 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1988 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 9 |
Reconstructing Prayer
Is this Liver Human
In 2010, the BBC broadcast a salacious story about child sacrifice in Uganda. A ‘witchdoctor’, who had become a Christian preacher, was the charismatic leading character, and claims were made that thousands of children were being sacrificed for purposes of witchcraft. The journalist won a major prize, and versions of his tale were heard and seen in Uganda on radio and television. Despite his account being substantially fictitious, it helped trigg…
Did Covid-19 vaccine enforcement work? Evidence from northwestern and northern Uganda
During the COVID-19 pandemic, vaccination programmes were shaped by diverse approaches to enforcement. Yet, little is known about how public authority influenced modes of enforcement on the ground or their ramifications for governance and public health more broadly. This article focuses on the Ugandan mandatory COVID-19 vaccination programme in two contrasting geographical and socio-political spaces: rural Dei and peri-urban Gulu. Ethnographic an…
In the line of duty
The deployment of soldiers for epidemic control in Africa has become more acceptable, even when human rights violations occur. This article outlines how this situation has arisen, foregrounding overlapping processes since the 1990s and the implications of Security Council Resolution 2177. It then explores effects with reference to Sierra Leone and Uganda. Drawing on long‐term fieldwork, it discusses militarised epidemic control programmes during …
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…
Joseph Kony and the Lord’s Resistance Army
Joseph Kony’s Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) emerged in northern Uganda when Alice Lakwena’s Holy Spirit Movement was also active (see entry for Lakwena, Alice). The groups had much in common, including spirit possession by their leaders. They were a response to the upheavals in the Acholi region following the seizing of political power in Uganda by Yoweri Museveni’s National Resistance Army in 1986. However, while Lakwena’s forces were defeated in…
Shifting the dynamics
Introduction The integration of more diverse perspectives into the development of evidence for decision-making has been elusive, despite years of rhetoric to the contrary. This has led to cycles of population-based health interventions which have not delivered the promised results. The WHO most recently set a target for schistosomiasis elimination by 2030 and called for cross-cutting approaches to be driven by endemic countries themselves. The ex…
Epidemics and the Military
Legacies of humanitarian neglect
Research findings question the merits of post-conflict reintegration programmes emphasising immediate family reunifications, without follow-up monitoring, social protection, education and skills training. By overlooking the diverse experiences of those who lived and fought with the LRA, and failing to anticipate or respond to the long term socio-political and economic challenges facing children on their return, reception centre processes not only…
Rejection and Resilience
This article focuses on young people who returned from the Lord’s Resistance Army in northern Uganda, mostly as children, over ten years ago. They are, by definition, resilient, because they have survived, but there are important variations. For the most part, those who managed to gain status in the LRA, are those most likely to present themselves as ‘resilient’ according to notions of self-reliance and entrepreneurialism. The majority are not in…
Plurais em todas as dimensões
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 …
What Happened to Children Who Returned from the Lord’s Resistance Army in Uganda
In northern Uganda, more than 50,000 people were recruited by the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) between the late 1980s and 2004, mostly by force. Around half of those taken were children (under 18 years old). A large number were never seen by their families again, but more than 20,000 returned through aid-financed reception centres. Endeavours were made to reunite them with their relatives, who were mostly living in insecure displacement camps. Re…
Is promoting war trauma such a good idea
A well-known medical journal, The Lancet, recently published an important systematic review and meta-analysis of mental disorder estimates in conflict settings, advocating for the scaling up of mental health interventions in such contexts. However, there is an assumption that the introduction of such treatments has no significant impact, except from a therapeutic one, in the settings they have been imported to. The authors' research in post-confl…
Condoning Unspeakable Things
Ebola and Public Authority
It is unclear how public authorities shaped responses to Ebola in Sierra Leone. Focusing on one village, we analyze what happened when "staff, stuff, space, and systems" were absent. Mutuality between neighbors, linked to secret societies, necessitated collective care for infected loved ones, irrespective of the risks. Practical learning was quick. Numbers recovering were reported to be higher among people treated in hidden locations, compared to…
The Beaker phenomenon and the genomic transformation of northwest Europe
Biosocial Approaches to the Control of Neglected Tropical Diseases
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Deworming Delusions? Mass Drug Administration in East African Schools
Recent debates about deworming school-aged children in East Africa have been described as the ‘Worm Wars’. The stakes are high. Deworming has become one of the top priorities in the fight against infectious diseases. Staff at the World Health Organization, the Gates Foundation and the World Bank (among other institutions) have endorsed the approach, and school-based treatments are a key component of large-scale mass drug administration programmes…
Neglected Tropical Diseases in Biosocial Perspective
The term ‘neglected tropical diseases’ (NTDs) points to the need for a biosocial perspective. Although ‘diseases’ are widely understood as biological phenomena, ‘neglect’ is inherently social. Social priorities, social relations and social behaviour profoundly influence the design, implementation and evaluation of control programmes. Yet, these dimensions of neglect are, themselves, neglected. Instead, emphasis is being placed on preventive chemo…
DeWitt Clinton and Amos Eaton
Journal Article DeWitt Clinton and Amos Eaton: Geology and Power in Early New York Get access David I. Spanagel. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014. xiv, 270 pp. $54.95.) Journal of American History, Volume 102, Issue 1, June 2015, Pages 246–247, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jav175 Published: 01 June 2015
Vigilantes, Witches and Vampires
Strange murders have occurred in northern Uganda. Blood is said to have been removed from the victims, and there are tales about child sacrifice and terrifying witchcraft. An ‘election’ was organised to select the culprit, known as ‘Mr Red’, and vigilante mobs have destroyed his property. This article places these events in context, and shows how understandings of the spirit world, religion, and wealth accumulation relate to local notions about e…
Justice at the Margins
Recent responses to people alleged to be 'witches' or 'poisoners' among the Madi of northern Uganda are compared with those of the 1980s. The extreme violence of past incidents is set in the context of contemporary upheavals and, in effect, encouragement from Catholic and governmental attitudes and initiatives. Mob justice has subsequently become less common. From 2006, a democratic system for dealing with suspects was introduced, whereby those r…
Violence and Moral Knowledge
This paper explores some issues relating to the manner in which communities are re-formed, and publicly articulated moralities are constructed. In part it comprises notes towards a search for productive, if not necessarily positive, ways of describing and analysing the tragic and the dreadful from an anthropological perspective. Drawing on fieldwork undertaken in the Upper Nile Basin in 1983-84 among Acholi-speaking returnees from Uganda in Sudan…
When Refugees Go Home
Introduction by T. Allen & H. Morsink - Repatriation: Not So Simple! by J.R. Rogge - Ad hoc Assistance to Return Movements & Long-Term Development Programmes by B.N. Stein - The Return of Algerian Refugees following Independ ence in 1962 by A. Bouhouche - Crisis of Expectations by J .O. Akol - Homecoming in the Luwero Triangle by J.B. Kaber a & C. Muyanja - The Desire to Return to S. T. Makanya - Repatriation & Reconstruction in Zimbabwe during t…
Understanding Alice
This article examines the Holy Spirit movement of Alice Lakwena, which emerged i n Uganda between 1987 and 1989. The popular account of Alice, as told in the Western media especially, ignored die social and historical contexts which are essential to understanding die forces which gave rise to her and her following. The spirit possession revealed by Alice Lakwena took forms which were familiar t o the people of this part of Uganda, aldiough die po…
What Happened to Children Who Returned from the Lord’s Resistance Army in Uganda
In northern Uganda, more than 50,000 people were recruited by the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) between the late 1980s and 2004, mostly by force. Around half of those taken were children (under 18 years old). A large number were never seen by their families again, but more than 20,000 returned through aid-financed reception centres. Endeavours were made to reunite them with their relatives, who were mostly living in insecure displacement camps. Re…
Ebola and Public Authority
It is unclear how public authorities shaped responses to Ebola in Sierra Leone. Focusing on one village, we analyze what happened when "staff, stuff, space, and systems" were absent. Mutuality between neighbors, linked to secret societies, necessitated collective care for infected loved ones, irrespective of the risks. Practical learning was quick. Numbers recovering were reported to be higher among people treated in hidden locations, compared to…
Witchcraft, Sexuality and HIV/Aids among the Azande of Sudan
The Azande of Ezo county, southern Sudan consider HIV/AIDS to be their worst health problem. Although there have been few confirmed cases, there is ongoing migration from neighbouring countries that are thought to have high prevalence. There are also more locally specific reasons for concern. Zande fears about HIV/AIDS relate to understandings of witchcraft. Witches, like HIV positive people, may look like everyone else, but are secretly killing …
Vigilantes, Witches and Vampires
Strange murders have occurred in northern Uganda. Blood is said to have been removed from the victims, and there are tales about child sacrifice and terrifying witchcraft. An ‘election’ was organised to select the culprit, known as ‘Mr Red’, and vigilante mobs have destroyed his property. This article places these events in context, and shows how understandings of the spirit world, religion, and wealth accumulation relate to local notions about e…
De-Politicizing Parasites
Large amounts of funding are being allocated to the control of neglected tropical diseases. Strategies primarily rely on the mass distribution of drugs to adults and children living in endemic areas. The approach is presented as morally appropriate, technically effective, and context-free. Drawing on research undertaken in East Africa, we discuss ways in which normative ideas about global health programs are used to set aside social and biologica…
The International Criminal Court and the invention of traditional justice in Northern Uganda
L'intervention de la Cour pénale internationale (CPI) dans le nord de l'Ouganda a suscité l'opposition de partisans de la justice traditionnelle. Il n'y a cependant pas vraiment de consensus quant aux rituels de réconciliation, et les cérémonies de pardon hybrides qui sont organisées avec l'aide internationale et sous les auspices d'un conseil des chefs de création récente, ne sont pas aussi significatifs que les enthousiastes se plaisent à le pe…
Palaeodiet at Eton College Rowing Course, Buckinghamshire
A line of time
Since the 1970s large‐scale archaeological projects have been undertaken in the Upper and Middle Thames Valley, driven by development pressures and strongly influenced by the evidence of aerial photographs, most of which have been of the higher gravel terraces where cropmarks are most prolific. These sites have, however, usually suffered heavily from ploughing; water‐logged deposits, occupation horizons and buried soils are rare. In contrast, the…
Justice at the Margins
Recent responses to people alleged to be 'witches' or 'poisoners' among the Madi of northern Uganda are compared with those of the 1980s. The extreme violence of past incidents is set in the context of contemporary upheavals and, in effect, encouragement from Catholic and governmental attitudes and initiatives. Mob justice has subsequently become less common. From 2006, a democratic system for dealing with suspects was introduced, whereby those r…
Epidemics and the Military
Border parasites
It is recognized that the control of schistosomisais in Uganda requires a focus on fisherfolk. Large numbers suffer from this water-borne parasitic disease; notably along the shores of lakes Albert and Victoria and along the River Nile. Since 2004, a policy has been adopted of providing drugs, free of charge, to all those at risk. The strategy has been reported to be successful, but closer investigation reveals serious problems. This paper draws …
Is promoting war trauma such a good idea
A well-known medical journal, The Lancet, recently published an important systematic review and meta-analysis of mental disorder estimates in conflict settings, advocating for the scaling up of mental health interventions in such contexts. However, there is an assumption that the introduction of such treatments has no significant impact, except from a therapeutic one, in the settings they have been imported to. The authors' research in post-confl…
Quests for therapy in northern Uganda
This article presents a case of diachronic ethnography. It examines quests for therapy among the Madi people of northern Uganda. It is based on ethnographic fieldwork carried out in and around the small trading centre of Laropi; originally in the late 1980s and again in 2008. By revisiting the same field site at different points in time, and by drawing on related ethnographic material collected in the 1950s and 70s, we are able to examine how suc…
From ‘informal sectors’ to ‘real economies
1998). From ‘informal sectors’ to ‘real economies’: Changing conceptions of Africa's hidden livelihoods. Contemporary Politics: Vol. 4, No. 4, pp. 357-373
Coming Home
Rejection and Resilience
This article focuses on young people who returned from the Lord’s Resistance Army in northern Uganda, mostly as children, over ten years ago. They are, by definition, resilient, because they have survived, but there are important variations. For the most part, those who managed to gain status in the LRA, are those most likely to present themselves as ‘resilient’ according to notions of self-reliance and entrepreneurialism. The majority are not in…
The ‘Other Diseases’ of the Millennium Development Goals
The sixth MDG aims 'to combat HIV/AIDS, TB, malaria and other diseases'. The residual category of 'other diseases' has become the focus of intense interest, partly because it has provided an opportunity to increase resources for the control of the mostly parasitic 'neglected tropical diseases' (NTDs). Intense lobbying has secured large amounts of funding from donors, as well as generous donations of medicines from the major drug companies. A mass…
Is 'genocide' such a good idea
Northern Uganda Revisited
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Rheumatoid arthritis in a medieval skeleton
Osteoarthritis in human skeletons from archaeological sites is common but there have been very few convincing descriptions of rheumatoid arthritis. We present a case of a near symmetrical erosive polyarthropathy in a medieval skeleton which we believe fulfils the criteria for typical rheumatoid arthritis
Ouganda
En 2005, la CPI émet ses premiers mandats d'arrêt. Ils visent cinq chefs rebelles de la Lord's Resistance Army, qui sévit depuis 1986 dans le Nord de l'Ouganda. Une polémique émerge car les mandats sont accusés de bloquer les négociations de paix. Certains voient dans le recours à des formes « traditionnelles » de justice la solution à ce dilemme. Tim Allen effectue une analyse critique de cette mobilisation et montre combien elle repose sur des …
The United Nations and the homecoming of displaced populations
According to UNHCR figures, in 1970 there were 2.5 million refugees in the world. In 1980, the figure was 11 million. By the early 1990s, the alarming spread of civil wars was prompting an average of 10,000 people a day to flee across an international border. In 1993, the estimated number of refugees had risen to 18.2 million. In addition there were at least 24 million people who been forcibly displaced within their own countries (UNHCR, 1993:1).…
Putting People First Again
Coming Home
Putting People First Again
Under the Volcano
War Famine and Flight in Sudan I Introduction
Understanding Alice
This article examines the Holy Spirit movement of Alice Lakwena, which emerged i n Uganda between 1987 and 1989. The popular account of Alice, as told in the Western media especially, ignored die social and historical contexts which are essential to understanding die forces which gave rise to her and her following. The spirit possession revealed by Alice Lakwena took forms which were familiar t o the people of this part of Uganda, aldiough die po…
A guide to the literature on aggressive behavior
The United Nations and the homecoming of displaced populations
According to UNHCR figures, in 1970 there were 2.5 million refugees in the world. In 1980, the figure was 11 million. By the early 1990s, the alarming spread of civil wars was prompting an average of 10,000 people a day to flee across an international border. In 1993, the estimated number of refugees had risen to 18.2 million. In addition there were at least 24 million people who been forcibly displaced within their own countries (UNHCR, 1993:1).…
Rheumatoid arthritis in a medieval skeleton
Osteoarthritis in human skeletons from archaeological sites is common but there have been very few convincing descriptions of rheumatoid arthritis. We present a case of a near symmetrical erosive polyarthropathy in a medieval skeleton which we believe fulfils the criteria for typical rheumatoid arthritis
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Civil War, Ethnicity and the Media
International interventions in war zones
A line of time
Since the 1970s large‐scale archaeological projects have been undertaken in the Upper and Middle Thames Valley, driven by development pressures and strongly influenced by the evidence of aerial photographs, most of which have been of the higher gravel terraces where cropmarks are most prolific. These sites have, however, usually suffered heavily from ploughing; water‐logged deposits, occupation horizons and buried soils are rare. In contrast, the…
From ‘informal sectors’ to ‘real economies
1998). From ‘informal sectors’ to ‘real economies’: Changing conceptions of Africa's hidden livelihoods. Contemporary Politics: Vol. 4, No. 4, pp. 357-373
Copperas
In 1995 an extraordinary array of timber posts set in mortar was exposed by marine erosion on the foreshore of Tankerton Bay, Whitstable, on the North Kent coast. Consequently, Canterbury Archaeological Trust, assisted by English Heritage and Canterbury City Council, began an investigation to discover what the remains were and what they could tell us about the history of Whitstable. Eventually some were identified as part of a copperas works; evi…
Copperas
In 1995 an extraordinary array of timber posts set in mortar was exposed by marine erosion on the foreshore of Tankerton Bay, Whitstable, on the North Kent coast. Consequently, Canterbury Archaeological Trust, assisted by English Heritage and Canterbury City Council, began an investigation to discover what the remains were and what they could tell us about the history of Whitstable. Eventually some were identified as part of a copperas works; evi…
Culture and Global Change
Culture and Global Change presents a comprehensive introduction to the cultural aspects of third world development. It contains 25 chapters from leading writers in the field who each explore a particular aspect of 'culture' and the significance and meaning of cultural issues for different people in throughout the contemporary world. With chapters dealing with the importance of 'Third World' cultures but also with changes in Russia, Japan, the USA…
Aids and Evidence
Uganda is invoked as a metaphor for a host of arguments and insights about HIV/AIDS. However, much of what has been asserted about the country is not based on the available evidence. This paper reviews findings by epidemiologists and anthropologists, and draws on the author’s experiences of researching in the country since the early 1980s. It comments on various myths about HIV/AIDS in Uganda, including myths about the origin and dissemination of…
Trial justice
The International Criminal Court (ICC) has run into serious problems with its first big case -- the situation in northern Uganda. There is no doubt that appalling crimes have occurred here. Over a million people have been forced to live in overcrowded displacement camps under the control of the Ugandan army. Joseph Kony’s Lord’s Resistance Army has abducted thousands, many of them children and has systematically tortured, raped, maimed and killed…
Northern Uganda Revisited
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The International Criminal Court and the invention of traditional justice in Northern Uganda
L'intervention de la Cour pénale internationale (CPI) dans le nord de l'Ouganda a suscité l'opposition de partisans de la justice traditionnelle. Il n'y a cependant pas vraiment de consensus quant aux rituels de réconciliation, et les cérémonies de pardon hybrides qui sont organisées avec l'aide internationale et sous les auspices d'un conseil des chefs de création récente, ne sont pas aussi significatifs que les enthousiastes se plaisent à le pe…
Witchcraft, Sexuality and HIV/Aids among the Azande of Sudan
The Azande of Ezo county, southern Sudan consider HIV/AIDS to be their worst health problem. Although there have been few confirmed cases, there is ongoing migration from neighbouring countries that are thought to have high prevalence. There are also more locally specific reasons for concern. Zande fears about HIV/AIDS relate to understandings of witchcraft. Witches, like HIV positive people, may look like everyone else, but are secretly killing …
Resisting Control of Neglected Tropical Diseases
A strong case has recently been made by academics and policymakers to develop national programmes for the integrated control of Africa’s ‘neglected tropical diseases’. Uganda was the first country to develop a programme for the integrated control of two of these diseases: schistosomiasis and soil-transmitted helminths. This paper discusses social responses to the programme in Panyimur, north-west Uganda. It shows that adults are increasingly reje…
Ouganda
En 2005, la CPI émet ses premiers mandats d'arrêt. Ils visent cinq chefs rebelles de la Lord's Resistance Army, qui sévit depuis 1986 dans le Nord de l'Ouganda. Une polémique émerge car les mandats sont accusés de bloquer les négociations de paix. Certains voient dans le recours à des formes « traditionnelles » de justice la solution à ce dilemme. Tim Allen effectue une analyse critique de cette mobilisation et montre combien elle repose sur des …
Bitter roots
The ‘Other Diseases’ of the Millennium Development Goals
The sixth MDG aims 'to combat HIV/AIDS, TB, malaria and other diseases'. The residual category of 'other diseases' has become the focus of intense interest, partly because it has provided an opportunity to increase resources for the control of the mostly parasitic 'neglected tropical diseases' (NTDs). Intense lobbying has secured large amounts of funding from donors, as well as generous donations of medicines from the major drug companies. A mass…
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