Decolonising State & Society in Uganda (eBook, ePUB)

The Politics of Knowledge & Public Life
Redaktion: Bruce-Lockhart, Katherine; Taylor, Edgar C.; Musisi, Nakanyike B.; Earle, Jonathon L.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wits University Press
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Dezember 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781800104112
• Artikelnr.: 66289597

Autorenporträt

Edited by K. Bruce-Lockhart, J. L. Earle, N. B. Musisi and E. C. Taylor

Inhaltsangabe

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