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MISR Review 6

Introduction to this Issue The MISR Review 6 has two parts. The first is the smaller, consisting of two review essays from the regular publication program of the journal. Lwazi Siyabonga’s reviews Nigerian sociologist Peter Ekeh’s seminal essay on ‘Colonialism and Social Structure’. Sefa Secan reviews Peter Gran’s 2020 book, The Persistence of Orientalism: Anglo-American Historians and Modern Egypt.

Associated Authors: Lwazi Siyabonga Lushaba, Sefa Secen, Biboswan Bose, Eric Tei-Kumadoe, Hadeel Assali, Jacob Katumusiime, Hardik Brata Biswas
Main Author: Mahmood Mamdani
Year: 2023
Publications: Staff
Makerere Institute of Social Research (MISR)

BOOK REVIEW: Yahya Sseremba: America and the Production of Islamic Truth in Uganda.

Broadly, America and the Production of Islamic Truth in Uganda is a study on “power and subjection to power, not violent extremism and how it is countered” (p. 9). To this endeavour, the US's global war on terror (WoT) and its corresponding interventions, in this case the Uganda Islamic education (Madrasa) reform proposals, provided Yahya Sseremba with an entry point. In Uganda, the US proposes numerous reforms, among them the idea of homogenising the hitherto diverse Madrasa curricula (pp. 97–109).

Journal Name: Journal of Religious History
Main Author: Adventino Banjwa
Publications: Student
Wiley Online Library

Resisting Degazetting of Forests and the Discourse of Development in Uganda

Muhamed Lunyago, Makerere Institute of Social Research (MISR) Introduction

Journal Name: African Social Research
Associated Authors: Adam Branch, Marc Lynch, Bienfait Kazamwali Mukamba, Nciko wa Nciko, Loubna Ou-Salah, Eric Suyru, Khaoula Bengezi, Stanley Ebitare Boroh, Amal Bourhrous,Victor Chikaipa, Kitessa Delessa, Jackson Tamunosaki Jack
Main Author: Muhamed Lunyago
Year: 2023
Publications: Student Download
PROGRAM ON AFRICAN SOCIAL RESEARCH

Gender and the bifurcated state: Women in Uganda’s traditional authority

Abstract This article introduces Mahmood Mamdani’s bifurcated state theory to the study of gender and power. The purpose is to unveil the structure of the state that produces conflicting experiences of elite women in Africa’s two public spheres, namely, the civil realm and the customary domain. In recent decades, privileged women have occupied political leadership positions in Uganda and Africa.

Journal Name: Third World Quarterly
Main Author: Yahya Sseremba
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Routledge

America and the Production of Islamic Truth in Uganda

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Main Author: Yahya Sseremba
Publications: Staff
Routledge

Beyond the Secular

Jacques Derrida and the Theological-Political Complex Investigates, through a critical exploration of Derrida's political thought, the foundations of modern secular discourse in relation to issues of race and colonialism. Description

Main Author: Andrea Cassatella
Publications: Staff

The History of Dictatorship: Custom, Authority, and Power in Precolonial and Colonial Uganda

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Journal Name: Africa Spectrum
Main Author: Dr. Yahya Sseremba
Publications: Staff
SAGE Journals

DRGT GRADUATE HANDBOOK

Preface We are pleased to give you a copy of the Graduate Student Handbook, which we hope will help both new and continuing students navigate through graduate student life at Makerere University. If you are a new student we are delighted that you chose Makerere University and we hope that your graduate study at Makerere University will meet your expectations. If you are a continuing student, we hope that the coming year will be rewarding and productive.

Main Author: Professor Buyinza Mukadasi
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HANDBOOK FOR INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDENTS - Ph.D. PROGRAMME IN SOCIAL STUDIES

This handbook is intended to help you navigate through the years of study and research that will lead to an MPhil or Ph.D. degree in Social Studies at MISR. It is hoped that these explanations and the outlining of procedures will help you in planning your studies. The Ph.D. in Social Studies typically requires 2 years of coursework followed by a year of building bibliographies, comprehensive exams, prospectus writing, and grant submissions; 1 year of dissertation research; and 1 year of dissertation write-up.

Main Author: MISR
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Slaves of State, Intellectuals of Development: A Genealogy of Development in Ethiopia.

The GENESIS of this book can be traced back to 2012 when I was taking a course in the major debate on the study of Africa at the Makerere Institute of Social Research (MISR). Anchored on the state and political subject formation on the continent, the course covers thematic issues such as the state and state formation, slavery, colonialism, nationalism, and development. Reading interdisciplinary literature, we raised critical questions. Getting the question right was the holy grail of the scholarship of political knowledge at the MISR.

Main Author: Yonas Ashine Demisse
Publications: Alumni Download
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