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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.
Autocratization in Contemporary Uganda analyses two interrelated
outcomes: autocratisation, manifest in the deepening of personalist
rule or Musevenism, and the regime resilience that has made
Museveni one of Africa's current-longest surviving rulers. How has
this feat been possible, and what has been the trajectory of
Museveni’s increasingly autocratic rule? Surveying that
trajectory since 1986, the book takes as its primary focus the
years since 2005; bringing to the fore the ‘autocratic turn’,
placing it within a broader comparative lens, and enriching it with
comparative references to cases outside of Uganda. While positing
the notion of 'autocratic adaptability' as a defining hallmark of
Museveni’s rule, the book examines the factors and forces that
have made that adaptability possible, analysing the dynamics around
three keys themes: institutions, resources, and coalitions. Through
empirical research, each chapter seeks to demonstrate how either
one or two of these three variables have functioned in propelling
autocratization and assuring regime resilience - producing
theoretical and and comparative implications that reach beyond
Uganda.
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