Autochthony, Rumor Dynamics, and Communal Violence in Western Ugand

Bibliographic Data

ID18952010
AuthorsRune Hjalmar Espeland (corresponding author)
Year2011
Volume55
Issue3
Publication date2011-01-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSocial Analysis (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0155-977X • E-ISSN: 1558-5727
PublisherBerghahn Books (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.3167/sa.2011.550302
OpenAlexW1966352469
LanguageEN
Citations received8

Across Africa, conflicts over land rights are increasingly centered on notions of autochthony. This article analyzes a violent event that took place in 2003 in connection with ethnically biased land redistribution in Western Uganda. Through the concepts of autochthony and communal violence, it analyzes the wider political context, tracing the processes from ethnic conflict to communal violence between autochthonous Banyoro and immigrant Bafuruki ethnic groups. Foregrounding the role of rumors in communal violence, it argues that rumors are not simply a response to conflict. Rather, they are constitutive of the situation, particularly in the formation of common moral imagination and in shaping the direction of social processes between the conflicting parties

Criminology · Ethnic conflict · Ethnic group · Ethnic violence · Foregrounding · Geography · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Rumor · Sociology · African history and culture analysis · Anthropology · Gender Studies · Land Rights and Reforms · Law · Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology

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