9. Coloniality and Power in Uganda’s Archives

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations vii
4. Notes on Contributors viii
5. Acknowledgements xiii
6. Introduction 1
7. PART I: FRAMING KNOWLEDGE
8. 1. Decolonial Dilemmas and Burdened Epistemic Heritages in Names and Naming Among the Bakiga 25
9. 2. Poetic Violence? Intimate Understandings of Cattle Raiding in Karamoja 42
10. 3. Spirits of Difference: Religion, Healing, and Decolonisation in Acholi 58
11. 4. Contested Freedoms: Human Rights, Decolonisation, and Political Agency in Postcolonial Uganda 78
12. 5. The First White Man to See the Nile: Decolonising History Education in Uganda 98
13. PART II: IMAGINING INSTITUTIONS
14. 6. Militarism and the Dilemmas of Decolonising Knowledge in Uganda 123
15. 7. Institutional Knowledge and the Ugandan Public Service: From Colonialism and Neocolonialism to the New Public Service 146
16. 8. Local Knowledge and Knowledge of the ‘Locals’: The Political Ambivalence of Bureaucratic Knowledge in Uganda’s Villages 170
17. 9. Coloniality and Power in Uganda’s Archives 197
18. 10. Higher Art Education and New Initiatives in Kampala: Potentials and Problems of Decolonising Knowledge 222
19. PART III: MAKING PUBLICS
20. 11. Repudiating a Liberal Framework for Political Accountability: The Politics of the Whole versus the Politics of the Party in Uganda in the 1940s 247
21. 12. Decolonising Identity and Citizenship: Revisiting the Historicity of the Indian Question in Uganda 269
22. 13. Liberation Ethnology: District Decolonisation, State Knowledge Production, and the Neoliberal Revolution in Uganda 295
23. 14. Finding Ourselves, Seeing Ourselves: Nationalism and Reclaiming Colonial Spaces in Uganda 317
24. 15. Rudeness/Incivility as Political Strategy: The Poetics and Politics of Stella Nyanzi’s Facebook Work 334
25. Select Bibliography 357
26. Index 397