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Harrison, Helen (2024) A GROUNDED THEORY EXPLORATION OF WELLBEING FOR WOMEN WHO HAVE BEEN FORCIBLY DISPLACED AS A RESULT OF TRAUMA CAUSED BY CONFLICT, BASED ON THE EXPERIENCE OF PARTICIPANTS LIVING IN UGANDA. PhD thesis, University of Gloucestershire. doi:10.46289/8TT5B2S9
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14697 Harrison (2024) PhD_A GROUNDED THEORY EXPLORATION OF WELLBEING FOR WOMEN WHO HAVE BEEN FORCIBLY DISPLACED AS A RESULT OF TRAUMA CAUSED BY CONFLICT, BASED ON THE EXPERIENCE OF PARTICIPANTS LIVING IN UGANDA.pdf - Accepted Version Available under License All Rights Reserved. Download (8MB) | Preview |
Abstract
This study is a grounded theory exploration of wellbeing for women who have been forcibly displaced by war and focuses on the experiences of two groups of women, both living in resettlement communities in Uganda. One group are South Sudanese refugees living in the Palabek settlement in northern Uganda, the other are Acholi people living as internally displaced citizens in an informal settlement in Kampala. The methodology employed in this study is that of a feminist standpoint combined with a constructive grounded theory approach, using unstructured in-person interviews as the main data collection technique. Key questions that are explored include how the women understand and experience wellbeing within their life context and what can be learned from female displaced participants in the global south relating to gendered perspectives of wellbeing and liveable space. The theoretical code that emerges from this data is that of reimagining liveable space over time, with its four key categories of wellbeing, liveableness, temporariness, and community. Within the discussion of these categories, reference is made to other relevant theories. The final outcome of this study is an emergent theory that is grounded in the data and, through reduction and refinement, gives a voice to women who represent those who experience marginalisation and subjugation, both within the communities that they come from, and due to the positioning of those communities within the international hierarchy. This research is an innovative and novel piece of work that weaves together feminist standpoint grounded theory with other key theoretical paradigms and demonstrates how the research can hold its own within a greater body of study than just that with which it is immediately related. It also has its uniqueness in the way in which it draws the four categories together and demonstrates their important relationship to each other in a relevant and pertinent way.
| Item Type: | Thesis (PhD) | |||||||||
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | displaced women; war; resettlement communities; Uganda | |||||||||
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) | |||||||||
| Divisions: | Schools and Research Institutes > School of Health and Social Care | |||||||||
| Depositing User: | Anne Pengelly | |||||||||
| Date Deposited: | 21 Jan 2025 10:19 | |||||||||
| Last Modified: | 21 Jan 2025 10:19 | |||||||||
| URI: | https://eprints.glos.ac.uk/id/eprint/14697 |
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