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.
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.
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1 Decolonial Dilemmas and Burdened Epistemic Heritages in Names and Naming Among the Bakiga |
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2 Poetic Violence? Intimate Understandings of Cattle Raiding in Karamoja |
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3 Spirits of Difference: Religion, Healing, and Decolonisation inAcholi |
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4 Contested Freedoms: Human Rights, Decolonisation, and Political Agency in Postcolonial Uganda |
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5 The First White Man to See the Nile: Decolonising History Education in Uganda |
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PART II IMAGINING INSTITUTIONS |
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6 Militarism and the Dilemmas of Decolonising Knowledge in Uganda |
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7 Institutional Knowledge and the Ugandan Public Service: From Colonialism and Neocolonialism to the New Public Service |
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8 Local Knowledge and Knowledge of the `Locals': The Political Ambivalence of Bureaucratic Knowledge in Uganda's Villages |
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9 Coloniality and Power in Uganda's Archives |
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10 Higher Art Education and New Initiatives in Kampala: Potentials and Problems of Decolonising Knowledge |
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11 Repudiating a Liberal Framework for Political Accountability: The Politics of the Whole versus the Politics of the Party in Uganda in the 1940s |
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12 Decolonising Identity and Citizenship: Revisiting the Historicity of the Indian Question in Uganda |
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13 Liberation Ethnology: District Decolonisation, State Knowledge Production, and the Neoliberal Revolution in Uganda |
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14 Finding Ourselves, Seeing Ourselves: Nationalism and Reclaiming Colonial Spaces in Uganda |
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15 Rudeness/Incivility as Political Strategy: The Poetics and Politics of Stella Nyanzi's Facebook Work |
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KATHERINE BRUCE-LOCKHART is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Waterloo. 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. NAKANYIKE B. MUSISI is an Associate Professor at the University of Toronto. EDGAR C. TAYLOR is a Lecturer in the Department of History, Archaeology and Heritage Studies at Makerere University. Tushabe wa Tushabe is Associate Professor in Department of Human Sexuality Studies, Widener University. 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. 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). Letha Victor is Assistant Professor in Religion Studies, UNC Charlotte. 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. Riley Linebaugh is a PhD candidate in the History Faculty at Justus Liebig University. Holly Hanson is Professor Emeritus of History at Mount Holyoke. Her works include Landed Obligation: The Practice of Power in Buganda (2005). Godfrey B. Asiimwe is an Associate Professor of Development Studies at Makerere University, Kampala. 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). 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. 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).
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