Conceptual Resilience in the Language and Lives of Resilient People: Cases from Northern Uganda

Introduction: Development practice, power and public authority

“…An initial focus on locations of armed conflict, population displacement, social reintegration and authoritarianism in Africa has since expanded to pressing issues outside the continent (Allen et al, 2021;Hopwood & O'Byrne, 2022;Macdonald et al, 2023). Researchers have piloted work in Europe and the UK, for example, on issues ranging from COVID-19 and vaccine hesitancy (Storer et al, 2022); to inequalities and identities among Roma (Sarafin, 2023), and on 'twilight institutions' in Lebanon's fragmented polity, and urban policing in places where the state does not have a monopoly of violence (Albrecht & Kyed, 2016;Stel, 2016;Yassin et al, 2016).…”