From Warriors to Mere Chicken Men, and Other Troubles: An Ordinary Language Survey of Notions of Resilience in Ngakarimojong

Bimeny, Ponsiano; Angolere, Benedict Pope; Nangiro, Saum; Sagal, Ivan Ambrose; Emai, Joyce

Abstract

We examine some vernacular concepts that reflect Karamojong understanding and everyday experience of resilience following a devastating disarmament process, and what this means for resilience-driven humanitarian-development processes. We found that whereas humanitarian-development actors view market development, improved security, and accessibility as indicators of increased resilience capacity, local people paint a contrasting picture of a region with mounting inequality. We argue that Ngakaramojong concepts of resilience are, for the most part, unseen or ignored by humanitarian-development programming. In their current form, resilience-based intervention appears to neutralise and dismantle those aspects of communities that make them resilient in the first place.

Citation

Bimeny, P., Angolere, B. P., Nangiro, S., Sagal, I. A., & Emai, J. (2021). From Warriors to Mere Chicken Men, and Other Troubles: An Ordinary Language Survey of Notions of Resilience in Ngakarimojong. Civil Wars, 24(2-3), 254-279. https://doi.org/10.1080/13698249.2022.2015215

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Dec 3, 2021
• Online Publication Date: Dec 21, 2021
• Publication Date: Dec 21, 2021
• Deposit Date: Nov 28, 2022
• Publicly Available Date: Nov 28, 2022
• Journal: Civil Wars
• Print ISSN: 1369-8249
• Electronic ISSN: 1743-968X
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis Group
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 24
• Issue: 2-3
• Pages: 254-279
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/13698249.2022.2015215
• Publisher URL: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13698249.2022.2015215
• Additional Information: Data Access Statement : This paper does not have figures.