Dangerous ignorance: The hysteria of Kony 2012
Dangerous ignorance: The hysteria of Kony 2012
- March 12, 2012
- The Center for Global Peace & Conflict Studies "Critical Investigations into Humanitarianism in Africa" (CIHA) blog is mentioned by Al-Jazeera and three other media outlets March 12, 2012
From Al-Jazeera:
From Kampala, the Kony 2012 hysteria was easy to miss. I'm not on Facebook or Twitter,
and I don't watch YouTube, and the Ugandan papers didn't pick up the story for several
days. But what I could not avoid were the hundreds of emails from friends, colleagues,
and students in the US about the video by Invisible Children and the massive online
response to it. I have not watched the video. As someone who has worked in and done
research on the war in northern Uganda for over a decade, much of it with a local
human rights organisation based in Gulu, the Invisible Children organisation and their
videos have infuriated me to no end - I remember one sleepless night after I watched
their "Rough Cut" film for the first time with a group of students, after which I
tried to explain to the audience what was wrong with the film while on stage with
one of the filmmakers. [Adam Branch is senior research fellow at the Makerere Institute
of Social Research, Uganda, and assistant professor of political science at San Diego
State University, USA. He is the author of Displacing Human Rights: War and Intervention
in Northern Uganda. This post first appeared on the CIHA blog, http://www.cihablog.com.]
Also featured in:
- UCSD News Brief
- Dissent Magazine
- SSRC Possible Futures blog
For the full story, please visit http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2012/03/201231284336601364.html.
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