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Harris, Colette (2012) 'Gender–age systems and social change: a Haugaardian power analysis based on research from northern Uganda.' Journal of Political Power, 5 (3). pp. 475-492.

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Abstract

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/tacit power, with Arendt’s ideas on authority, and Bourdieu’s on disposition and habitus. I suggest using ethnographically collected data makes an important contribution to studying power and propose replacing the idea of gender and power as a simple binary relationship with the concept that gender–power relations are always crossed with multiple modalities, among which, for gerontocratic settings like most in Africa, age holds particular significance. I conclude that gender analysis based on the local habitus is critical for empirical explorations of social interactions.

Item Type: Journal Article
SOAS Departments & Centres: Departments and Subunits > Department of Development Studies
Legacy Departments > Faculty of Law and Social Sciences > Department of Development Studies
ISSN: 2158379X
DOI (Digital Object Identifier): https://doi.org/10.1080/2158379X.2012.735119
Date Deposited: 22 Oct 2016 10:28
URI: https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/id/eprint/20795

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