This Land is Not For Sale

Lotte Meinert is Professor at the Department of Anthropology, Aarhus University. She has carried out research in Uganda since 1993 and led research capacity projects in Northern Uganda for 15 years. Her publications include Time Work: Studies of Temporal Agency Biosocial Worlds (Berghahn, 2020) and Configuring Contagion: Ethnographies of Biosocial Epidemics (Berghahn, 2021).

List of Illustrations



Foreword

Sara Berry



Introduction: Trust and Transitions in Northern Uganda

Lotte Meinert and Susan Reynolds Whyte



Part I: Claims to Land



Case I: The Case of a Disputed Land Sale

Mette Lind Kusk



Chapter 1. Multiplicity

Stephen Langole, Susan Reynolds Whyte and Michael Whyte



Chapter 2. Transactions

Lotte Meinert and Mette Lind Kusk



Chapter 3. Conflicts

Irene Winnie Anying and Quentin Gausset



Part II: Intimate Governance of Land



Case II: Disrupted Land and Broken Graves

Sophie Seebach



Chapter 4. Generations

Esther Acio, Lioba Lenhart and Susan Reynolds Whyte



Chapter 5. Gender

Julaina A. Obika and Hanne O. Mogensen



Chapter 6. Belonging

Ben Otto Adol, Michael Whyte and Susan Reynolds Whyte



Part III: Imagining Development



Case III: Claiming ‘Their’ School: Land Dispute Between Two Churches over a Primary School

Catrine Shroff



Chapter 7. Aspirations

Susan Reynolds Whyte and Catrine Shroff



Chapter 8. Inside-Outsiders

Marianne Mosebo and Lotte Meinert



Chapter 9. Conservation

Lioba Lenhart and Lotte Meinert



Afterword: Who Belongs Where, and What Belongs to Whom?

Christian Lund



Appendix: Land Legislation and Implementation in Uganda

Anne Mette Kjær



Index