Quietly Otherwise: Atmospheres of Sharing in Unusual Ik Families

Lecture | Research Seminar. In the Ik mountains of Uganda, where economic and cultural marginality meet strict national middleclass norms of gender and family, some families quietly practice forms of kinship that fall outside normative expectations. Drawing on a collaborative research project on Imaging Gender Futures in Uganda, this paper explores atmospheres of keeping quiet, sharing resources and difficulties in two families whose ways of living otherwise are not articulated through rights-based discourses, but expressed through everyday acts of care, sharing, conflict and quiet.

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