Robert Birungi

Robert
Fellow Status
Active
Current Status
PhD Fellow
Thesis Title
Beyond the Nexus Between Ethnicity and Land Conflicts: A Critical Analysis of the Banyoro-Bafuruki Violence in Uganda.

Publications
Book chapters
Birungi, R. (2026) ‘’Cultural Resistance Against Environmental Destruction: Oil Extraction and the Banyoro in Uganda’’. In Climate Justice in Action. Bristol, UK: Bristol University Press. Retrieved Jun 11, 2026, from https://doi.org/10.51952/9781529247473.ch004

Birungi, R. (2024) ‘’Decolonizing the Environment: Cultural Resistance Against Climate Change among the Bunyoro Ethnic Community’’ In African Social Research 5(Winter 2024), Program on African Social Research (PASR), Baruch College, City University of New York

Book Reviews
Birungi, R. (2025), Review of Epistemic Justice and the Post-Colonial University, Eds. Amrita Pande, Ruchi Chaturvedi, and Shari Daya, eds. Johannesburg: Wits University Press, Johannesburg, 2023, African Studies Review, Volume 68, Issue 2, June 2025, pp. 399-401 https://doi.org/10.1017/asr.2024.203.

Birungi, R. (2025), Review of Knowing-Unknowing: African Studies at the Crossroads, Eds. Katharina Schramm and Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni, Leiden & Boston: Brill, 2024. pp. 310. ISBN: 978-90-04-70143-4 (Hardback); 978-90-04-70144-1 (e-Book), Research Africa Reviews Vol. 9 No. 2, August 2025

Blog/Public Scholarship
Birungi, R. (2023), Commodification of Colonial Injustice: The Politics of Colonial Reparations in the Bunyoro Region, Decolonial Dialogues Blog, https://decolonialdialogue.wordpress.com/2023/09/15/commodification-of-colonial-injustice-the-politics-of-colonial-reparations-in-bunyororegion/

About me

Birungi Robert is a PhD Fellow pursuing an Interdisciplinary PhD in Social Studies at the Makerere Institute of Social Research (MISR), an institute managed by Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Ethics and Human Rights and a Master of Philosophy in Social Studies from Makerere University. He has previously taught in the Department of Philosophy and the School of Gender and Women’s Studies at Makerere University. He is a member of the Collective of Agrarian Scholar Activists from the South (CASAS) and a recipient of the SSRC & Next Gen Fellowship 2024. 

Research Focus
My research interests broadly cover Political and Decolonial Thought, Political Ecology, Identity Politics, Political Violence, and the Land/Agrarian Question.