How ‘The Urge to Kill’ Feels: Articulations of Emic ‘Appetitive Aggression’ Experiences Among Former Forcefully Recruited Children and Youth in the Acholi Region of Northern Uganda
| Autor: | Anett Pfeiffer, Helle Harnisch |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Male Warfare Health (social science) Adolescent Poison control Demobilization Context (language use) Resistance (psychoanalysis) ‘Cen’ Suicide prevention Young Adult 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Acholi Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) medicine Humans Uganda 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Social Behavior Appetitive Behavior Resilience Aggression 05 social sciences General Medicine Resilience Psychological Killing humanities language.human_language ‘Appetitive Aggression’ 030227 psychiatry Psychiatry and Mental health Military Personnel Anthropology language Emic and etic War medicine.symptom Homicide Psychology Social psychology 050104 developmental & child psychology |
| Zdroj: | Harnisch, H & Pfeiffer, A 2018, ' How ‘the urge to kill’ feels : articulations of emic ‘appetitive aggression’ experiences among former forcefully recruited children and youth in the Acholi region of northern Uganda ', Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry, vol. 42, no. 2, pp. 419-448 . https://doi.org/10.1007/s11013-017-9557-4 |
| ISSN: | 1573-076X 0165-005X |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s11013-017-9557-4 |
| Popis: | Based on 10 months of fieldwork in the Acholi region of northern Uganda among youth and adults who were forcefully recruited into the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) during the war, this article provides qualitative details to research on ‘appetitive aggression.’ Through two case-stories the article unfolds first person articulations of how ‘appetitive aggression’ is experienced as ‘the urge to kill’ and how it relates to the emic Acholi spiritual concept of ‘cen’; a local Luo expression used to describe places and human beings possessed by evil spirits. The analysis illuminates what the individual and social implications of ‘the urge to kill’ and ‘cen’ entail for two Acholi men; first in a militia and then in a civil post-war context. The analysis then relates these findings to soldier experiences across cultures and time periods. While our analysis supports the findings in ‘appetitive aggression’ studies that appetitive aggression serves as a resilient protective factor against developing post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), this study documents that once the former forcefully recruited return to civilian life, ‘appetitive aggression’ and ‘the urge to kill’ precipitate individual and at times lethal social and moral complications in a fragile post-war community. Thus, the article argues that appetitive aggression and the emic perceptions and experiences of it among the local population are essential to consider in studies, processes and programs targeting demobilization, rehabilitation, reconciliation and re-integration. |
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