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Politics, Ethics, and Rebellion Today: The Paradox of the Humanitarianized Rebel Politics, Ethics, and Rebellion Today: The Paradox of the Humanitarianized Rebel
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Watching Che in Rural Acholiland Watching Che in Rural Acholiland
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Wandering in the Wilderness, or Paths of Postcolonial Politics Wandering in the Wilderness, or Paths of Postcolonial Politics
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The Search for Liberation The Search for Liberation
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Politics as Deception, or Why the LRA Avoid Politics Politics as Deception, or Why the LRA Avoid Politics
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Ethics as Divine, or Reframing Human Ideologies amidst God’s Plans Ethics as Divine, or Reframing Human Ideologies amidst God’s Plans
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Embracing Victimhood, Becoming Humanitarianized: From the LRA to the NGO Embracing Victimhood, Becoming Humanitarianized: From the LRA to the NGO
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Crafting Victimhood Self-Narratives: A Different Kind of Humanitarian Ethics Crafting Victimhood Self-Narratives: A Different Kind of Humanitarian Ethics
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Victimhood as Exploitation Victimhood as Exploitation
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Becoming Pitied Subjects Becoming Pitied Subjects
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Beyond Bare Life: Flexibility in Unstable Times Beyond Bare Life: Flexibility in Unstable Times
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6 Rebels and Charity Cases: Politics, Ethics, and the Concept of Humanity
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Published:February 2018
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Chapter 6 engages recent debates in anthropologies of humanitarianism and human rights that argue that categories like “victim” and “charity case” deny actors their political agency and reduce them to bare life. By examining how LRA rebels remained political militants even as they accepted charity and humanitarian aid, this chapter shows how these debates ignore how rebels speak in the trenches of these discourses. Their experiences expose “humanity” as a concept historically constructed in the opposition of the “ethical” and the “political.” In Acholiland, “ethics” and “politics” had different meanings and could coexist. Rebels accordingly exposed humanity as a premature fixer of political and ethical meaning, precluding dynamism and multiplicity of meaning in a global society in uncertain flux.
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