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Arbitrary States: social control and modern authoritarianism in Museveni's Uganda by Rebecca Tapscott Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021How should one read political and historical literature on modern authoritarianism, neopatrimonialism, and state formation in Africa from a Ugandan vantage point? This is the central theoretical question that Rebecca Tapscott asks in this new study on the postcolonial state in Uganda. In eight chapters, Tapscott navigates the ‘micro-dynamics of governance in Uganda’, in which she identifies a variety of modern authoritarianism thought to be peculiar to Museveni's Uganda: ‘institutionalized arbitrariness’. Journal Name: The Journal of Modern African Studies Main Author: Adventino Banjwa |
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Cambridge University Press |
THE MISR Review No.5Introduction to this Issue Journal Name: The MISR Review Associated Authors: Evarist Ngabirano, David Ngendo-Tshimba, Mary Kajumba Muhuruzi, Manuel J. Manu-Osafo, Ammel Sharon,Victoria Openifoluwa Akoleowo |
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Makerere Institute of Social Research (MISR) |
BOOK: Beyond the Secular: Jacques Derrida and the Theological-Political ComplexBeyond the Secular: Jacques Derrida and the Theological-Political Complex investigates the contemporary relationship between religion and politics through a critical reading of Jacques Derrida’s political thought. Its central claim is that Derrida’s thought offers powerful resources to rethink such a relationship beyond the secular paradigm. Main Author: Andrea Cassatella |
Publications: Staff SUNY Press |
Land For Development? Neoliberal Restructuring and the Dynamics of Land Reforms in UgandaThe idea and relevance of Compulsory Land Acquisition are central to the claims of many modern states world over. But how should we think of this practice in a post-colonial neoliberal context? This is the question at the heart of the theoretical criticisms and debates regarding Uganda’s Compulsory Land Acquisition Programme. In this debate, the government claims, and affirms, that a law on Compulsory Land Acquisition is needed because the government requires ‘land for development’. Main Author: Adventino Banjwa |
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Beyond Local Government Reforms: A Case Study of Toro and Kigezi Districts in the Politics of Postcolonial UgandaAbstract
This study contributes to the understanding of ethnicity in local government politics in Uganda. The idea here is to explain how ethnic patriotism was possible under the circumstances in which the colonial mode of governance rigidly recognized only one official identity of the Batoro in Toro. In comparison, the study demonstrates how the response from the colonized in Kigezi set parameters outside the indirect rule politics partly because the colonial mode of governance there was flexible in as far as it recognized the multi-ethnic identity of Kigezi. Main Author: Evarist Ngabirano |
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Critical Perspectives on Southern AfricaBooks reviewed in this issue include Renewing Workers’ Education: a radical vision (2020); A Short History of Modern Angola (2019); Decolonization in Universities: the politics of knowledge (2019); and The Political Economy of Government Subsidized Housing in South Africa (2020). Journal Name: Transformation Associated Authors: Gerhard Maré (University of KwaZulu-Natal), Kira Erwin and Rachel Matteau Matsha (Durban University of Technology), Imraan Valodia (University of the Witwatersrand),Vasu Reddy (University of Pretoria), Donna Andrews and Stephen Sparks (University of Johan Main Author: Jeremy Grest |
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The State and the Puzzle of Ethnicity: Rethinking Mass Violence in Uganda’s Rwenzori RegionWhy does mass violence persist in Africa? Focusing on Uganda’s Rwenzori region where
thousands have perished in a century of recurrent fighting between one ethnic group and another
and between successive governments and the Bakonzo society, Yahya Sseremba examines how
remedies advanced to address violence end up reproducing the institutional logic that drives
violence. If the problem started in the early twentieth century when the ethnic groups that were
not allocated tribal homelands (Bakonzo and Bamba) questioned the British creation of the Main Author: Yahya Sseremba |
Publications: Student Makerere Institute of Social Research (MISR) |
Accessing Global Capital Through Remittance: A Route to the Reconfiguration of the Peasant Mode of Production in Rural EritreaMigration and its resultant remittance have become the two powerful forces of peasant transformation in Eritrea in the last decade. If the former is responsible for uprooting labor from land, the latter is a replacement value to what the labor would have produced from the land. Main Author: Temesgen Tesfamariam Beyan |
Publications: Alumni Sage Publications |
The MISR Review No.4In this issue, we emulate the model we initiated in The MISR Review, no. 3. The bulk of the issue is a set of three lectures on a single theme; each lecture is followed by a set of comments, one or two.
The lectures were organized around a single theme, Palestine as a Question, given by Raef Zreik from Tel Aviv University. The three lectures were titled: 1. Formation; 2. Justice; and 3. Decolonisation.
We saw the lecture series as a way of introducing a debate on two critical questions: Israel/Palestine, and decolonisation. Journal Name: MISR Review Associated Authors: Raef Zreik, Lisa Damon, Oluwatosin Samuel Orimolade, Noura Erakat, Yosef Sintayehu Jemberie, Mbasughun Ukpi, Mohamed Amer Meziane |
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Makerere Institute of Social Research (MISR) |
Ethnic emancipation and conflict escalation in UgandaThis article examines why the emancipation of ethnic groups has failed to address ethnic conflicts in Uganda. Successive Ugandan governments, especially the current regime of President Yoweri Museveni, have attempted to end the country’s history of ethnic strife by creating separate constituencies, separate districts and separate kingdoms for marginalised ethnic groups to free them from the domination of powerful ethnic groups. Main Author: Dr. Yahya Sseremba |
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