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Resistant Resilience: Agency and Resilience Among Refugees Resisting Humanitarian Corruption in Uganda
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Resilience is a dominant humanitarian-development theme. Nonetheless, some humanitarian-development programmes have demonstrably negative impacts which encourage vulnerable people to actively resist these programmes. Based on 12 months ethnographic fieldwork in a Ugandan refugee settlement during 2017–18, this paper argues refugee residents articulated their refusal of humanitarian failure and corruption through active, largely non-political, resistance. I term the diverse strategies used ‘resistant resilience’, arguing that the agency central to these practices require that assumptions about resilience are reconsidered. I conclude that this refugee community’s most important resilience strategies were active resistance, demonstrating that resilience can be manifested through marginalised peoples’ desire to resist exploitation.
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“If cultivation does not emerge as a realistic pathway to the achievement of self-reliance, the corruption and structural failures characterizing the Ugandan refugee emergency response (Titeca 2022; O'Byrne 2022), pose additional challenges in this sense.”
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“It is the first time since the beginning of 2018, when food non-delivery was a serious issue for several months (see O'Byrne 2022), that refugees have been left to fend for themselves for a major part of their basic dietary needs.”
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Metadata
- Authors
- O’Byrne, R. J.
- Affiliations
- London School of Economics and Political Science (GB)
- Corresponding author
- O’Byrne, Ryan Joseph
- ORCID
- O’Byrne, Ryan Joseph
- Venue
- Civil Wars
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2022-07-03
- Volume
- 24
- Issue
- 2-3
- Pages
- 328-356
- ISSN
- 1369-8249 (ISSN-L)
- 1743-968X
- OpenAlex
- W4283832703
- Cited by
- 9
- References
- 1
- Citations by year
- 2026: 2 · 2025: 1 · 2024: 4 · 2023: 1 · 2022: 1
- FWCI
- 2.52
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
- doi.org
- Locations
- Civil Wars (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- London School of Economics and Political Science Research Online (London School of Economics and Political Science) (acceptedVersion)
- London School of Economics and Political Science Theses Online (London School of Economics and Political Science) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- ESRC/GCRF (ES/P008038/1)
- Rockefeller Foundation (IGA-Rockefeller Resilience Fund)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Migration and Exile Studies
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Disaster Management and Resilience
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Peacebuilding and International Security
- Keywords
- refugee agency, refugee settlement, Uganda, resilience theory, marginalized communities
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