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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)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Harris, C. (2022, April). The Functioning of Gender, With Special Reference to the Global South. Presented at 5th International Conference on Gender Research (ICGR 2022), University of Aveiro, Portugal

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.

Gender–age systems and social change: a Haugaardian power analysis based on research from northern Uganda (2012)
Journal Article
Harris, C. Gender–age systems and social change: a Haugaardian power analysis based on research from northern Uganda. Journal of Political Power, 5(3), 475-492. https://doi.org/10.1080/2158379X.2012.735119

This paper studies power through data focusing on gender–age relations gathered ethnographically among the Acholi of northern Uganda. It analyses these data through a framework combining Haugaard’s notions of dispositional, episodic and discursive/ta... Read More about Gender–age systems and social change: a Haugaardian power analysis based on research from northern Uganda.

Conjugality, Subjectivity, Desire and Gender-based Violence in Tajikistan (2012)
Journal Article
Harris, C. Conjugality, Subjectivity, Desire and Gender-based Violence in Tajikistan. The Journal of Development Studies, 48(1), 55-67. https://doi.org/10.1080/00220388.2011.629647

This article, based on ethnographic materials collected in Tajikistan in the late 1990s, melds cross-cultural psychologies, (feminist) ethnography, sexualities and gender studies. It explores Zakari's marriage to his cousin, Sumangul. The cousins' di... Read More about Conjugality, Subjectivity, Desire and Gender-based Violence in Tajikistan.

State business: gender, sex and marriage in Tajikistan (2011)
Journal Article
Harris, C. State business: gender, sex and marriage in Tajikistan. Central Asian Survey, 30(1), 97-111. https://doi.org/10.1080/02634937.2011.554057

This article examines the relation of the state to masculinity and sexuality by way of an exploration of the sexual problems of a young man and his wife in Tajikistan at the end of the Soviet era. It suggests that the regime's inattention to this kin... Read More about State business: gender, sex and marriage in Tajikistan.

Transformative Education in Violent Contexts: Working with Muslim and Christian Youth in Kaduna, Nigeria (2009)
Journal Article
Harris, C. Transformative Education in Violent Contexts: Working with Muslim and Christian Youth in Kaduna, Nigeria. IDS Bulletin, 40(3), 34-40. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1759-5436.2009.00036.x

This article discusses one approach to producing social change used in a transformative education project carried out in 2007/08 in Kaduna, Nigeria. Its participants were Muslim and Christian youth and the setting one in which, in the wake of recent... Read More about Transformative Education in Violent Contexts: Working with Muslim and Christian Youth in Kaduna, Nigeria.

Muslim Youth Tensions and Transitions in Tajikistan Westview Case Studies in Anthropology (2006)
Book
Harris, C. (2006). Muslim Youth Tensions and Transitions in Tajikistan Westview Case Studies in Anthropology. Westview Press. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429498787

This book presents a compelling ethnography of the changes Tajikistan faces at the turn of the twenty-first century as seen through the eyes of its youth. It discusses the ethnographic gaze on the tremendous cultural changes being played out in post-... Read More about Muslim Youth Tensions and Transitions in Tajikistan Westview Case Studies in Anthropology.

Desire versus Horniness: Sexual Relations in the Collectivist Society of Tajikistan (2005)
Journal Article
Harris, C. (2005). Desire versus Horniness: Sexual Relations in the Collectivist Society of Tajikistan. Social Analysis: The International Journal of Social and Cultural Practice, 49(2), 78-95. https://doi.org/10.3167/015597705780886275

Desire focuses on a particular object, while horniness stems from a generalized feeling of sexual arousal. In Tajikistan, people are discouraged from the former and are expected to experience their sexuality as the latter. The story of Rustam and the... Read More about Desire versus Horniness: Sexual Relations in the Collectivist Society of Tajikistan.