Decolonising State & Society in Uganda

The Politics of Knowledge & Public Life
Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-1-84701-297-5
Verlag: Boydell & Brewer

Buch, Englisch, Band 56, 416 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 158 mm x 237 mm, Gewicht: 780 g

Reihe: Eastern Africa Series

Key book on the debates surrounding the knowledge economy and decolonialization of African Studies, that brings the subject up to date for the 21st century.

Decolonization of knowledge has become a major issue in African Studies in recent years, brought to the fore by social movements such as #RhodesMustFall and #BlackLivesMatter. This timely book explores the politics and disputed character of knowledge production in colonial and postcolonial Uganda, where efforts to generate forms of knowledge and solidarity that transcend colonial epistemologies draw on long histories of resistance and refusal. Bringing together scholars from Africa, Europe and North America, the contributors in this volume analyse how knowledge has been created, mobilized, and contested across a wide range of Ugandan contexts. In so doing, they reveal how Ugandans have built, disputed, and reimagined institutions of authority and knowledge production in ways that disrupt the colonial frames that continue to shape scholarly analyses and state structures. From the politics of language and gender in Bakiga naming practices to ways of knowing among the Acholi, the hampering of critical scholarship by militarism and authoritarianism, and debates over the names of streets, lakes, mountains, and other public spaces, this book shows how scholars and a wide range of Ugandan activists are reimagining the politics of knowledge in Ugandan public life.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bruce-Lockhart, Katherine

Earle, Jonathon L

Musisi, Nakanyike B

Taylor, Edgar C

Weitere Mitwirkende

Tushabe, Tushabe wa

Eaton, David

Boyd, Lydia

Victor, Letha

Greene, Ashley L.

Khisa, Moses

Meyers, Genevieve

Brisset-Foucault, Florence

Linebaugh, Riley

Nagawa, Margaret

Siegenthaler, Fiona

Hanson, Holly

Asiimwe, Godfrey B.

Kalinaki, Daniel

Rwakabukoza, Rebecca

Browne, Adrian

Kahyana, Danson

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Afrikanische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kolonialgeschichte, Geschichte des Imperialismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Kolonialismus, Imperialismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction, by Edgar C. Taylor, Katherine Bruce-Lockhart, Jonathon L. Earle and Nakanyike Musisi
PART 1: FRAMING KNOWLEDGE
2. Decolonial Dilemmas and Burdened Epistemic Heritages in Names and Naming among the Bakiga, by Tushabe wa Tushabe
3. Poetic Violence? Intimate Understandings of Cattle Raiding in Karamoja, by David Eaton
4. Spirits of Difference: Religion, Healing, and Decolonisation in Acholi, by Letha Victor
5. Contested Freedoms: Human Rights, Decolonization, and Political Agency in Postcolonial Uganda, by Lydia Boyd
6. The First White Man to See the Nile: Decolonising History Education in Uganda, by Ashley L. Greene
PART 2: IMAGINING INSTITUTIONS
7. Militarism and the Dilemmas of Decolonising Knowledge in Uganda, by Moses Khisa
8. Institutional Knowledge and the Ugandan Public Service: From Colonialism and Neocolonialism to the New Public Service, by Genevieve Meyers
9. Local Knowledge and Knowledge of the 'Locals':The Political Ambivalence of Bureaucratic Knowledge in Uganda's Villages, by Florence Brisset-Foucault
10. Coloniality and Power in Uganda's Archives, by Riley Linebaugh and Katherine Bruce-Lockhart
11. Higher Art Education & New Initiatives in Kampala: Potentials and Problems of Decolonising Knowledge, by Margaret Nagawa and Fiona Siegenthaler
PART 3: MAKING PUBLICS
12. Repudiating a Liberal Framework for Political Accountability: The Politics of the Whole versus the Politics of the Party in Uganda in the 1940s, by Holly Hanson
13. Decolonising Citizenship and Identity Contestations: Revisiting the Historicity of the Indian Question in Uganda, by Asiimwe B. Godfrey
14. Liberation Ethnology: District Decolonialism, State Knowledge Production, and the Neoliberal Revolution in Uganda, by Adrian Browne
15. Finding Ourselves, Seeing Ourselves: Nationalism and Reclaiming Colonial Spaces in Uganda, by Daniel Kalinaki & Rebecca Rwakabukoza
16. Rudeness/Incivility as Political Strategy: The Poetics and Politics of Stella Nyanzi's Facebook Work, by Danson Sylvester Kahyana

Über Autor(innen)

Linebaugh, Riley
Riley Linebaugh is a PhD candidate in the History Faculty at Justus Liebig University.

Earle, Jonathon L
JONATHON L. EARLE is the Marlene and David Grissom Professor of Social Studies at Centre College and co-author of Contesting Catholics: Benedicto Kiwanuka and the Birth of Postcolonial Uganda.

Musisi, Nakanyike B
NAKANYIKE B. MUSISI is an Associate Professor at the University of Toronto.

Kahyana, Danson
Danson Sylvester Kahyana is a Senior Lecturer in Literature at Makerere University. He edited Fire on the Mountain: Creative Work on the Obuhikira (2018) and co-edited As I Stood Dead Before the World: Creative Writing from Luzira (2018) and Discourse and Identities: Writing and Contemporary Eastern African Peripheral Subjectivities (2019).

Eaton, David
Dave Eaton is an Associate Professor of World and African history at Grand Valley State University. He co-hosts 'On Top of the World: A World History Podcast'. He has published articles in several journals including Nomadic Peoples, World History Connected, and African Affairs.

Bruce-Lockhart, Katherine
KATHERINE BRUCE-LOCKHART is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Waterloo.

Hanson, Holly
Holly Hanson is Professor Emeritus of History at Mount Holyoke. Her works include Landed Obligation: The Practice of Power in Buganda (2005).

Meyers, Genevieve
Genevieve Meyers is Associate Professor of Political Science at University of Detroit Mercy. Her articles have appeared in Public Integrity, Public Money and Management, Public Organization Review, African Journal of Public Administration and Management, and Administratio Publica, among others.

Boyd, Lydia
Lydia Boyd is Assistant Professor in African, American & Diaspora Studies Dept, UNC Chapel Hill. Her works include Preaching Prevention: Born-Again Christianity and the Moral Politics of AIDS in Uganda (2015)and Legislating Gender and Sexuality in Africa: Human Rights, Society, and the State (2020, with Emily Burrill).

Tushabe, Tushabe wa
Tushabe wa Tushabe is Associate Professor in Department of Human Sexuality Studies, Widener University.

Kalinaki, Daniel
Daniel Kalinaki is a journalist who has held senior newsroom positions on the Daily Monitor and East African newspapers. He is the author of Kizza Besigye and Uganda's Unfinished Revolution (2014) and co-author of Open Secret: People Living With HIV and AIDS in Uganda (2001).

Browne, Adrian
Adrian Browne has a PhD in History from Durham University. His research focuses on political education, decolonisation, and Africa's Cold War in Britain. His articles have appeared in History in Africa, Journal of Eastern African Studies, and Journal of Critical African Studies.

Victor, Letha
Letha Victor is Assistant Professor in Religion Studies, UNC Charlotte.

Asiimwe, Godfrey B.
Godfrey B. Asiimwe is an Associate Professor of Development Studies at Makerere University, Kampala.

Taylor, Edgar C
EDGAR C. TAYLOR is a Lecturer in the Department of History, Archaeology and Heritage Studies at Makerere University.