Hierarchy, Value, and the Value of Hierarchy

Haynes, Naomi; Hickel, Jason

doi:10.3167/sa.2016.600401

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“…Moreover, a stringent insistence on ideas like self‐representation and autonomy may militate against the achievement of dignity, especially in cases where profound dependency forms a constitutive condition of people's lives. This idea evokes important recent discussions of the ways in which people in sub‐Saharan Africa cultivate relations of hierarchy and dependency as vehicles for social and economic possibility, means of securing and sustaining life in circumstances of relative deprivation, where the state cannot be counted on to provide support (Whyte et al ; Scherz ; Ferguson ; Haynes and Hickel ; Haynes ). Cognitive disability necessarily intersects with, and underlines, such forms of socioeconomic dependency, especially in cases of impairments that leave people unable to meet their basic needs, in part or in full, by themselves.…”

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confidence: 97%

Appearances of Disability and Christianity in Uganda

Zoanni

2019

Cult. Anthropol.

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This article considers how Christianity contributes to the appearance of cognitive disability in Uganda, a country with some of the most progressive disability policies in the world but little in the way of formal care and advocacy for cognitively disabled people. As a point of departure, the article invokes Hannah Arendt’s notion of appearance as a way to thematize the importance of public display in Ugandan social life, as well as the challenge that people with evidently profound disabilities pose to Ugandan social aesthetics. It first traces how cognitive disability disappears under the liberal logics that organize Uganda’s secular disability laws and activism, and then compares the ways that Catholic and Pentecostal efforts sustain the appearance of cognitive disability, in light of their theological differences and their common paternalism. Even as Christian paternalism in the face of cognitive disability may prove repugnant to a liberal vision of disability politics, I argue that it sustains a form of disability appearance otherwise not possible in Uganda. Bufunze Ekiwandiiko kino kilagira ddala bulungi, nga obukristaayo bwe bwewaddeyo ennyo ku nsonga etekwatiddwa bulungi ey’endabika y’abantu abalina obulemu mu butesobola nga buva ku bwongo nga bali mu Uganda. Eggwanga erya Uganda lirina enkola ennungi mu byokwezza obuggya ku nsonga y’abantu abo munsi yonna. Wabula ate kinakuwaza nnyo, nti libulamu nnyo enkola ennungamu mu ngeri y’okuwagira endabirira esaanidde abantu abo, mu mbeera zaabwe zonna okutwalira awamu. Ekiwandiiko kino okwawukana ku bya bulijjo ebirala byonna, kikoona butereevu ku ndowooza ya Hannah Arendt, era nga kirina n’okulaga okusomooza okuleteddwaawo obutafa bulungi ku bantu abo mu mbeera zaabwe mu ggwanga lyonna. Ekiwandiiko kisookera ddala n’okulaga engeri y’okufaayo ku nsonga eyo bwe kigenda kisaanirawo ddala nga kino kiyita mu kwekkiriranya abantu kwe batambuliramu ng’abakweyambisa, nga bakola amateeka agakwata ku butesobola obw’obwongo, wamu nebirala ebikolebwa okukisaamu amaanyi, Kati ekyo, nga bwe twongerako netukigeerageeranya n’ekyo ekikolebwa abakatuliki n’aba Pentekooti ku nsonga eyo yemu mu kuyimirizaawo endabika entuufu eyandisaanidde ku bantu abo abalina obulemu bwobutesobola. Naye ate olwokuberawo enjawukana z’e byeddini wakati waabo bombi, nekitasobola kutambula bulungi, nga kino kiva mu kugaaana okukolera awamu nga abantu abali ku mulimu ogumu. Ekisinga obukulu nga kyekireeeta obutakkanya obwo kyangu okulaba. Kale obutasobola kukolera wamu olw’obukulu bwensonga eyo, nakyo kiyinza okuva ku bukyaayi okwesigamiziddwa ku kwolesebwa okulina obulemu mu bwongo, mu nfuga yaabwo egobererwa. Ekyo ne kiyimirizaawo endabika eyobulemu obutesobola era nga nayo tesoboka mu Uganda kukolebwako.

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Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 97%

Appearances of Disability and Christianity in Uganda

Zoanni

2019

Cult. Anthropol.

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“…But other anthropological analyses examine how dependencies, inequalities and hierarchies can enable as well as disable particular actions, aspirations and revisions (e.g. Haynes and Hickel, 2016; Mahmood, 2005). Such an anthropological analysis of ‘labour’ offers insight into some of the moral politics shaping enduring practices and shifting flashpoints in the emergent localities, economies and socialities forged out of multi‐scalar dynamics involved in artisanal gold production in Tonkolili district.…”

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The Moral Politics of Gendered Labour in Artisanal Mining in Sierra Leone

Rutherford¹

2020

Development and Change

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Drawing on current anthropological approaches to labour, this article examines some of the moral politics mobilized around women and artisanal mining in policy-inflected scholarship with reference to particular gold mining zones in Tonkolili district, Sierra Leone. In so doing, the article proposes that such a focus on labour not only allows one to appreciate how sentiments concerning (im)proper behaviour infuse wider policy proposals to amend social arrangements in regard to what is called 'artisanal mining', but it also offers insight into some of the enduring moral politics helping to constitute women as 'family workers' in the actual artisanal gold mining zones. The article suggests that examining the overlapping moral politics constituting women's labour practices provides a more supple understanding of the contested economic possibilities for women in this livelihood practice.

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“…Second, an explicit and oftrepeated ideology in present-day Zimbabwe has it that 14. See also recent special issues edited by Naomi Haynes and Jason Hickel (2016) and André Iteanu and Ismaël Moya (2015).…”

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confidence: 99%

Headless queues

Jones

2019

HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory

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In this paper, I analyze Zimbabweans' efforts to make sense of ubiquitous queues for basic goods during a period of recordbreaking hyperinflation. My discussion draws on a series of daily journal entries kept by a resident of the urban informal economy during 2007 and 2008. Besides opening a window onto everyday life amid economic collapse, his journals show how economic and political turmoil was registered in mundane actions (like standing in queues and buying goods on the black market) and perceived violations of established moral geographies and social processes. He framed this experience using common-sense notions of disorder, which were themselves internal to ideas and practices of ordered hierarchy. For him and for many others, then, the country's so-called "crisis" registered less in explicit historical narrative than in perceptions of reversal and absence.

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Hierarchy, Value, and the Value of Hierarchy

Cited by 25 publications

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Appearances of Disability and Christianity in Uganda

Appearances of Disability and Christianity in Uganda

The Moral Politics of Gendered Labour in Artisanal Mining in Sierra Leone

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