Ugandan Women on the Move to Stay Connected: The Concurrency of Fixation and Liberation

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  • Hanne O. Mogensen University of Copenhagen

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Uganda, women, mobility, collective identities, change, continuity

Abstract

Many Ugandan women are constantly moving around
as part of their everyday efforts to make life continue. Based on
fieldwork in southeastern Uganda in the past 15 years, exam-
ples are given of how women moving between relatives and tem-
porary jobs obtain continuity in their lives while also attempt-
ing to break with previous relationships and contexts to embrace
new situations and possibilities. It is suggested that we need to
approach connection and disjunction, fixation and liberation as
concurrent principles in the ongoing struggle for their own and
their children's survival, in order to catch sight of the different
kinds of networks and relationships that are at stake in peo-
ple's lives.

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2022-03-11

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Mogensen, H. O. (2022). Ugandan Women on the Move to Stay Connected: The Concurrency of Fixation and Liberation. Anthropologica, 53(1), 103–116. Retrieved from https://cas-sca.journals.uvic.ca/index.php/anthropologica/article/view/989

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Vol. 53 No. 1 (2011): Changes of Place: Interrogating the Continuities and Disjunctures of Movement

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Copyright (c) 2011 Hanne O. Mogensen

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