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Decolonizing Gender Through Combining Ethnographic and Historical Research With Discovery-Based Pedagogies in Post–Civil War Northern Uganda (2024)
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Harris, C. (2024). Decolonizing Gender Through Combining Ethnographic and Historical Research With Discovery-Based Pedagogies in Post–Civil War Northern Uganda. London

This case study is based on a project from northern Uganda’s Acholiland, starting in 2007. Its initial research phase was implemented in two villages in Gulu District after the civil war against the Lord’s Resistance Army, followed by a grass-roots e... Read More about Decolonizing Gender Through Combining Ethnographic and Historical Research With Discovery-Based Pedagogies in Post–Civil War Northern Uganda.

The Functioning of Gender, With Special Reference to the Global South (2022)
Journal Article
Harris, C. (2022). The Functioning of Gender, With Special Reference to the Global South. Proceedings of the international conference on gender research, 5th, 97-104. https://doi.org/10.34190/icgr.5.1.98

This paper proposes theorising gender through complementary sets of behavioural prescriptions or norms rather than by a focus on women (and men). It posits the idea that gender is integral to a disciplinary regime aimed at producing social order, w... Read More about The Functioning of Gender, With Special Reference to the Global South.

The capacity to aspire: young persons and gender–age relations in southern Tajikistan and North India (2019)
Journal Article
Harris, C. (2019). The capacity to aspire: young persons and gender–age relations in southern Tajikistan and North India. Central Asian Survey, 38(4), 460-475. https://doi.org/10.1080/02634937.2019.1642850

Rather than studying young men's career- and/or economic-based aspirations, this article explores the obstacles that hinder youths of both sexes in gerontocratic southern Tajikistan and North India from developing the capacity to make their own life... Read More about The capacity to aspire: young persons and gender–age relations in southern Tajikistan and North India.

Some Gender Implications of the ‘Civilising Mission’ of the Anglican Church for the Acholi Peoples of Northern Uganda (2017)
Journal Article
Harris, C. (2017). Some Gender Implications of the ‘Civilising Mission’ of the Anglican Church for the Acholi Peoples of Northern Uganda. Religions, 8(11, 245), https://doi.org/10.3390/rel8110245

Anglican missionaries arriving in Uganda’s Acholiland in 1903 saw the local peoples as in need not just of Christianisation but also of civilising. This last consisted primarily of inculcating western notions of gender identities for both men and wom... Read More about Some Gender Implications of the ‘Civilising Mission’ of the Anglican Church for the Acholi Peoples of Northern Uganda.

Gender and post-conflict rehabilitation (2015)
Book Chapter
Harris, C. (2015). Gender and post-conflict rehabilitation. In A. Coles, L. Gray, & J. Momsen (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of Gender and Development (407-417). Routledge

The use of participatory gender analysis for violence reduction in (post-)conflict settings: a study of a community education project in northern Uganda (2014)
Book Chapter
Harris, C. (2014). The use of participatory gender analysis for violence reduction in (post-)conflict settings: a study of a community education project in northern Uganda. In M. Texler Segal, & V. Demos (Eds.), Gendered Perspectives on Conflict and Violence: Part B (145-170). Emerald. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1529-21262014000018B010

Violence in a Religiously Divided City: Kaduna, Nigeria—From the Shari'a Riots of 2000 to the Post-election Clashes of 2011 (2013)
Journal Article
Harris, C. (2013). Violence in a Religiously Divided City: Kaduna, Nigeria—From the Shari'a Riots of 2000 to the Post-election Clashes of 2011. Space and Polity, 17(3), 284-299. https://doi.org/10.1080/13562576.2013.861175

This paper examines why frictions developed in Kaduna between Muslims and Christians, how they turned violent, and the outcomes. The frictions were caused by a combination of the effects of colonial policies that established the north/south, Muslim/C... Read More about Violence in a Religiously Divided City: Kaduna, Nigeria—From the Shari'a Riots of 2000 to the Post-election Clashes of 2011.