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Amongst Uganda's Congolese refugee population are a number of human rights defenders who actively resist the construction of refugees as dispossessed and displaced humanitarian aid recipients. Upon fleeing the complex and violent conflicts of the Democratic Republic of Congo, rather than supplicate to a humanitarian regime saturated with the language of human rights, these young men draw on human rights to "raise up the voice of the voiceless." This article explores how defenders draw on human rights to understand, articulate, and resist the constraints of forced displacement into a humanitarian regime. ; Parmi les réfugiés d'origine congolaise en Ouganda se trouvent un certain nombre de défenseurs des droits de la personne qui résistent activement à la construction conceptuelle des réfugiés selon laquelle ils seraient tout simplement des bénéficiaires d'aide humanitaire démunis et déplacés. Après avoir fui les conflits complexes et violents qui ont ravagé la République démocratique du Congo, plutôt que d'être réduits à un statut de suppliants envers un régime humanitaire saturé par le discours des droits de la personne, ces jeunes hommes préfèrent puiser dans ces mêmes droits pour « donner voix à ceux qui n'ont pas de voix ». Cet article s'engage dans une exploration du processus selon lequel les droits de la personne peuvent se transformer en terrain fertile qui permet à ces défenseurs des droits de comprendre, d'articuler et de résister aux contraintes du déplacement forcé au sein d'un régime.

AbstractThis article critically reflects on a long‐term intergenerational project combining ethnographic and social science research methods and Freirean‐inspired applied theatre in a long‐term participatory process working alongside men and women in search of a 'plenitude of praxis': strengthening and promoting an urban community's capacity to unite across social barriers in recognising systemic injustices and inequalities and challenging these through community‐led interventions in pursuit of common social justice outcomes. It reflects on the successes, complexities and failures of an approach rooted in African feminism, and in particular stiwanism, in a context of entrenched urban poverty in Jinja Municipality, Uganda. Copyright © 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Halin ai centres the lived experiences of climate change and disasters of people living with disabilities in two urban sites in Indonesia - Banjarmasin in South Kalimantan and Mataram in West Nusa Tenggara. We call for an intersectional and decolonial approach to better understand how disabilities intersect with social and structural injustices in urban settings to shape diverse responses to climate change and disasters. We highlight the economic, socio‐cultural, and embodied challenges that increase vulnerability to - and ability to recover from - disasters including urban flooding and earthquakes. We draw on ethnographic and visual data from our research, including a comic illustrated by Ariel and Zaldi and sketches by Rizaldi, to centre diverse lived experiences of structural vulnerabilities and socio‐cultural marginalisation, particularly concerning education and livelihoods. Foregrounding life stories in this way serves to challenge the absence of meaningful engagement of people with disabilities in disaster risk reduction and climate change actions and decision‐making. Our article highlights disability as a site of both discrimination and critical embodied knowledge, simultaneously a product of structural, socio‐cultural, political, and environmental injustice while also a source of innovation, resilience, and agency.

The United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development makes climate change and responsible consumption key priorities for both industrialized and emerging economies. Moving beyond the Global North, this book uses innovative cross-national and cross-generational research with urban residents in China and Uganda, as well as the UK, to illuminate international debates about building sustainable societies and to examine how different cultures think about past, present and future responsibility for climate change. The authors explore to what extent different nations see climate change as a domestic issue, whilst looking at local explanatory and blame narratives to consider profound questions of justice between those nations that are more and less responsible for, and vulnerable to, climate change