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 IllustrationsForewordSara BerryIntroduction: Trust and Transitions in Northern UgandaLotte Meinert and Susan Reynolds WhytePart I: Claims to LandCase I: The Case of a Disputed Land SaleMette Lind KuskChapter 1. MultiplicityStephen Langole, Susan Reynolds Whyte and Michael WhyteChapter 2. TransactionsLotte Meinert and Mette Lind KuskChapter 3. ConflictsIrene Winnie Anying and Quentin GaussetPart II: Intimate Governance of LandCase II: Disrupted Land and Broken GravesSophie SeebachChapter 4. GenerationsEsther Acio, Lioba Lenhart and Susan Reynolds WhyteChapter 5. GenderJulaina A. Obika and Hanne O. MogensenChapter 6. BelongingBen Otto Adol, Michael Whyte and Susan Reynolds WhytePart III: Imagining DevelopmentCase III: Claiming ‘Their’ School: Land Dispute Between Two Churches over a Primary SchoolCatrine ShroffChapter 7. AspirationsSusan Reynolds Whyte and Catrine ShroffChapter 8. Inside-OutsidersMarianne Mosebo and Lotte MeinertChapter 9. ConservationLioba Lenhart and Lotte MeinertAfterword: Who Belongs Where, and What Belongs to Whom?Christian LundAppendix: Land Legislation and Implementation in UgandaAnne Mette KjærIndex

“This wonderful book makes an important contribution to the study of African land and rural communities on a number of levels. There is a remarkable richness and diversity of empirical material, largely collected and described by researchers and writers from the region.” • Julian Hopwood, London School of Economics