Youth at the crossroads : : Discourses on Socio-Cultural Change in Post-War Northern Uganda / / Julia Vorhölter.

Based on eleven months of field work (2009-2011), this book analyzes the situation of youth in urban Gulu, Northern Uganda, in the aftermath of the war between the Lord's Resistance Army and the Ugandan Government (1986-2006). Specifically, it focuses on the generation that was born and grew up...

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Superior document:Göttingen series in social and cultural anthropology ; 7
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Place / Publishing House:Göttingen : : Universitätsverlag Göttingen,, 2014.
Year of Publication:2014
Language:English
Series:Göttingen series in social and cultural anthropology ; 7.
Physical Description:1 online resource (340 pages) :; illustrations.
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