Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology and The Ethnographic Collection

Publications and Presentation of Dr. Julia Vorhölter


Books



Journal Articles (Peer-Reviewed)

  • [revised and resubmitted to Transcultural Psychiatry in January 2019]. A Pioneer of Psy: The First Ugandan Psychiatric Nurse & her (Different) Tale of Psychiatry in Uganda.
  • 2019. Struggling to be a “Happy Self” – Psychotherapy and the Medicalization of Unhappiness in Uganda? Current Anthropology 60(2).
  • 2017. Class-based Chronicities of Suffering and Seeking Help – Comparing Addiction Treatment Programs in Uganda. Culture, Medicine & Psychiatry, 41(4):564–589.
  • 2017. Homosexuality, Pornography and other ‘Modern Threats’ – The Deployment of Sexuality in Discourses on Social Change in Uganda. Critique of Anthropology 37(1): 93–111.
  • 2016. Beyond Dichotomies – Complexifying Intergenerational Debates and Discourses on the Post-War Society in Northern Uganda. Journal of Peace and Security Studies 2(1): 1-19.
  • 2012. Studying Development Organizations – Towards a Culture of Participation? Journal of Organizational Ethnography 1(2): 178-194.
  • 2012. Negotiating Social Change: Ugandan Discourses on Westernisation and Neo-Colonialism as Forms of Social Critique. Journal of Modern African Studies 50(2): 283-307.
  • Lenhart, Lioba und Vorhölter, Julia. 2010. Theorising Peace and Conflict – An Anthropological Approach. Gulu University Journal 1(1): 169-178.



Book Chapters

  • 2018. Loyalties for Sale – Youth as ‘Identity Entrepreneurs’ in Post-86 (Northern) Uganda. In: Wiegratz, J.; Martiniello, G. & Greco, E. (eds.). Uganda: The Dynamics of Neoliberal Transformation. London: Zed Books. (318-333).
  • 2018. Changing Dynamics of Gender Roles and Norms in Post-War Northern Uganda – A Question of Girls’ Empowerment? In: Gomez-Perez, Muriel (ed.). Femmes d’Afrique et emancipation: Entre normes sociales contraignantes et nouveaux possibles. Paris: Karthala. (147-170).



Review Articles

  • 2017. Review of “Neoliberal Moral Economy: Capitalism, Socio-Cultural Change and Fraud in Uganda”, 2016, by Jörg Wiegratz. Forum for Development Studies, 44(3):517-519
  • 2014. Review of “50 Jahre Unabhängigkeit in Afrika: Kontinuitäten, Brüche, Perspektiven”, 2012, edited by Thomas Bierschenk & Eva Spies. African Affairs 113(452): 479-480.



Working Papers & Other Articles



Selected Seminar and Conference Presentations (incl. travel grants)

  • Sep. 2018. A/Effective (Re-)Arrangements? ‘Dysfunctional’ Relationships as a Key Challenge for Therapy in Uganda. Symposium on ‘Affektive Arrangements in Therapeutic Settings’, FU Berlin. [invited contribution].
  • Sep. 2018. In (the) Practice: Translating, Appropriating and ‘Doing’ Psychotherapy in Uganda. Conference of the Association of Social Anthropologists of the UK and the Commonwealth 2018, Oxford UK, 18-21.09.2018, Panel: When Psychotherapy Goes Awry: Theorising the Unexpected in Therapeutic Encounters [invited contribution, supported by the German Academic Exchange Service].
  • 30.06.2018. A Pioneer of Psy. The First Ugandan Psychiatric Nurse & Her (Different) Tale of Psychiatry in Uganda. Meeting of the African Studies Association Germany, Leipzig, 27.-30.08.2018, Panel 15: African Contributions to Global Health.
  • 06.10.2017. Neoliberal Capitalism and Psychotherapy in Uganda. Critical Reflections on the Politics of Care. Meeting of the German Association for Social and Cultural Anthropology, Berlin, 4.-7.10.2017, Workshop 12: Affective practices, belonging, & politics of care.
  • 10.08.2017. The Emergence of Psychotherapy in Uganda – Mirror or Motor of a New (Dis)Order? Macquarie University Anthropology Colloquium, Sydney, Australia.
  • 29.04.2017 A New (Dis)Order? Neoliberal Capitalism and Psychotherapy in Uganda. Workshop at Washington University in St. Louis, Anthropology Department: Framing (Dis)Orders: Mental Health Institutions as Reflections of Political, Socio-Economic and Moral Orders in Different Historical and Regional Contexts, 28. & 29.04.2017.
  • 11.03.2017. Notes from the Margins of Psychological Anthropology – The (Neglected) Rise of Psychotherapy in Africa. Biennial Meeting of the Society for Psychological Anthropology New Orleans, USA, 9-12.03.2017, Panel: Reimagining the Clinic: Critical Approaches to Psychotherapy. [supported by VW-Foundation]
  • 18.11.2016. Struggling to be a ‘Happy Self’ – Psychotherapy, Mental Health and the Medicalization of Unhappiness in Uganda Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association Minneapolis, USA, 16-20.11.2016, Panel: (Un)happy (un)healthy: on challenging assumptions of everyday life. [supported by VW-Foundation]
  • 06.06.2016 Class-Based Chronicities in Mental Health Care in Uganda. Conference of the Association of Social Anthropologists of the UK and the Commonwealth 2016, Durham UK, 04-07.07.2016, Panel: Anthropology of Mental Health: at the Intersections of Transience, 'Chronicity' and Recovery. [supported by the ‘Universitätsbund’ of Göttingen University]
  • 17.12.2015. Of Madness, Morality and Mental Health – Discourses on Psycho-Social Suffering and the Rise of the Therapeutic in Uganda. Colloquium of the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Göttingen University.
  • 25.11.2015. Von Macht und Moral: Aktuelle Debatten über Sexualität in Uganda. Marburger Weltladen. [invited contribution]
  • 09.07.2015. Homosexuality, Pornography and other ‘Modern Threats’: Mobilizing Sexuality in Discourses on Social Change in Uganda. 6th European Conference on African Studies, Paris, 08.07.-10.07.2015, Panel 025: Opposing the Liberal West? Anti-Homosexuality Mobilizations in Contemporary Africa. [supported by the German Academic Exchange Service]
  • 31.07.2014. Obsession with (Sexual) Change in Uganda – Sexuality as Instrument of Power. 13th EASA Biennial Conference, Tallinn, 31.07.-03.08.2014, Panel 56: Obsession with Change. [supported by the Faculty of Social Sciences, Göttingen University]
  • 13.06.2014. „Youth at the Crossroads“ – Aushandlungsprozesse und Zukunftsvorstellungen von Jugendlichen in Norduganda nach dem Krieg. Meeting of the African Studies Association Germany, Bayreuth, 11.-14.06.2014, Panel 18: Auf dem Weg. Zukunftsvorstellungen und -perspektiven von Kindern und Jugendlichen in Afrika.
  • 03.10.2013. Theorie vs. Praxis? „Entwicklungsalltag” im Spannungsfeld von Partizipationsdogma und Organisationskultur. Meeting of the German Association for Social and Cultural Anthropology, Mainz, 02.-05.10.2013, Workshop 13: „Theorie – Praxis“. Entwicklungssoziologie und Sozialanthropologie zwischen Herrschaftskritik, gesellschaftlicher Verantwortung und Sozialtechnologie.
  • 28.06.2013. Rebuilding Society after the War – Creative Contributions by Acholi Youth. 5th European Conference on African Studies, Lisbon, 27. - 29.06.2013, Panel 165: Novel Spaces for African Youth: Creativity, Entrepreneurship and Political Action. [supported by the Graduate School of Social Sciences, Göttingen University]
  • 21.07.2011. “The Young People are Losing our Culture“ – Kulturwandel als Generationenkonflikt in Post-Konflikt-Norduganda. Summer School of the German Association of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Frankfurt, 18.-22.07.2011. Thema: Kultur in der Debatte: Antinomien kultureller Referenzen. [invited contribution]
  • 18.06.2011. Infiltrating “African values”? Homosexuality, Prostitution and Mini-Skirts as Images of “the Foreign Evil” in Discourses on Gender, Kinship and Sexuality in Uganda. 4th European Conference on African Studies, Uppsala, 15. -18.06.2011, Panel 151: Intimate Engagements: Decolonizing Kinship, Gender, Sexuality.
  • 01.12.2010. Discourses on Culture and Generational Change in Gulu – Perceptions, (Re-) Productions and Transformations of Acholi Cultural Practices and Values among Urban Youth. Workshop at the Institute of Peace and Strategic Studies (IPSS), Gulu University, Uganda, 01.12.2010.
  • 14.07.2010. Perceptions, (Re)-Productions and Transformations of Gender Roles and Norms among Youth in Northern Uganda. XVII ISA-Sociology World Congress, Gothenburg, 11.-17.07.2010, RC 38 Biography and Society, Session 4: Biographical Research in Countries of the Global South. [supported by the German Academic Exchange Service]
  • 05.02.2010. Counseling of a Nation – Adoptions and Adaptations of Hegemonic Gender Discourses among Youth in Uganda. Workshop on “Counseling and Social Change in Africa”, Amsterdam School for Social Science Research, 04.-05.02.2010. [invited contribution]



Organization/Convening of Conference Panels

  • Dec. 2018. Trauma Subjectivities – The Experience and Imaginaries of Suffering in the 21st Century. (Co-convenor: Kenneth Finis, Macquarie University, Sydney). Annual Conference of the Australian Anthropological Society (04.-07.12.2018), Cairns. [supported by the International Office, Göttingen University]