Book and Film Reviews
Vol. 32 No. 2 (2025): Arts Grappling With the Local and the Global: What are the Political Issues in the Public Sphere?
Book Review.: Disability and Aid. An Ethnography of Logics and Practices of Distribution in a Ugandan Refugee Camp. Maria-Theres Schuler. 2024. Leiden, Boston: Brill.
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Submitted
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January 20, 2025
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Published
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2026-05-20
Abstract
The book Disability and Aid: An Ethnography of Logics and Practices of Distribution in a Ugandan Refugee Camp by Maria-Theres Schuler conceptualizes the predicaments of humanitarian aid, particularly as championed through global aid regimes and experienced by refugees. It problematizes the concepts of humanitarianism, refugee, migration, and disability based on rigorous ethnographic research in the form of participant observation and narrative interviews conducted in the Kyangwali refugee settlement in Uganda.
References
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