Densification and Production of Gaps: Political Re-reading of Government Interventions by Former LRA Returnees

Daniel Komakech ()
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Daniel Komakech: Gulu University

A chapter in African Peacebuilding, 2026, pp 199-212 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The paper establishes and elaborates on the mundane everyday experience of anxieties and uncertainties among former Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) returnees in Northern Uganda. Drawing on the narrative of ‘neglect’ and prompting a political re-reading into their precarious situations, the paper deploys new sets of conceptual tools and analytical categories of: production of gaps, presencing, ‘always-already’, double-motives and political re-reading to re-root certain modes of thoughts, knowings and practices as registers in the State-returnees complex relation. On its part, as the paper will show, the State, through its multiple interventionist programmes, argues that it is responding appropriately to the plight of the returnees. Building on the narratives and political re-readings from the LRA returnees and techniques of interventions from the State, the paper shows how this gets routinely intensified and complex.

Keywords: LRA returnees; State; Narrative of neglect; Production of gaps; Political re-reading (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2026
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-032-29966-6_15

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