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Decolonising State & Society in Uganda: The Politics of Knowledge & Public Life

Decolonising State & Society in Uganda: The Politics of Knowledge & Public Life

Bruce-Lockhart, Katherine
Musisi, Nakanyike B.
Earle, Jonathon L.

Hardcover

Series: Eastern Africa, Book 42

African HistoryAnthropologyGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 1847012973
ISBN13: 9781847012975
Publisher: James Currey
Published: Dec 13 2022
Pages: 416
Weight: 1.67
Height: 0.94 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
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.

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