Jovah Katushabe
Biographic Data
| ID | 1699582 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jovah Katushabe |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jovah |
| FAMILY NAME | Katushabe |
| SIGNATURE | KATUSHABE J |
| AFFILIATIONS | CRIMM (Critical Research in Men and Masculinities) Research Center Ltd. Kampala Uganda |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
“The Ultimate Hustlers”
In this article, we examine precarious labor geographies via a feminist analysis of care and social reproduction. To do so, we center the lives of women traders working in the busy downtown market spaces of Kampala, Uganda. We examine their creative and collective business strategies, and the broader networks of family, friends, and other dependents they support. Through their testimonies, we trace the legacies of colonial capitalist histories an…
Designing a ‘vibrant, attractive and sustainable city
Beauty, as an aesthetic ideal and intrinsically power-laden paradigm, is central to urban development projects. Yet there remains limited critical work that interrogates the colonial underpinnings, violent outcomes, and negotiations of beauty politics in urban beautification programs. In our article, we approach urban beautification campaigns in downtown Kampala, Uganda via an explicitly African, and Black feminist analytic of beauty. Specificall…
Sequined Styles, Intersectional Moves
In this article, we build on the vital insights of feminist thought in economic geography, extending this body of work via a global Black feminist geographic lens. To do so, we center two moments of the Ugandan bridal industry: the international trade of imported dresses and their design and refashioning there. Via the journeys of these dresses, we make visible how connected racial-gendered and classed power relations structure, drive, and manife…
“You Rise Up … They Burn You Again”
In this paper we develop a feminist political ecology of disaster colonialism. To do so, we focus on a series of fires that devastated Park Yard Market in Kampala, Uganda, one of the largest retail spaces in East Africa. Officially accidental, rumours suggest the fires were deliberately set to displace traders and make way for the lucrative (re)development of the city‐centre land. Concerned less with the veracity of these rumours and more with th…
Designing a ‘vibrant, attractive and sustainable city
Beauty, as an aesthetic ideal and intrinsically power-laden paradigm, is central to urban development projects. Yet there remains limited critical work that interrogates the colonial underpinnings, violent outcomes, and negotiations of beauty politics in urban beautification programs. In our article, we approach urban beautification campaigns in downtown Kampala, Uganda via an explicitly African, and Black feminist analytic of beauty. Specificall…
“You Rise Up … They Burn You Again”
In this paper we develop a feminist political ecology of disaster colonialism. To do so, we focus on a series of fires that devastated Park Yard Market in Kampala, Uganda, one of the largest retail spaces in East Africa. Officially accidental, rumours suggest the fires were deliberately set to displace traders and make way for the lucrative (re)development of the city‐centre land. Concerned less with the veracity of these rumours and more with th…
Sequined Styles, Intersectional Moves
In this article, we build on the vital insights of feminist thought in economic geography, extending this body of work via a global Black feminist geographic lens. To do so, we center two moments of the Ugandan bridal industry: the international trade of imported dresses and their design and refashioning there. Via the journeys of these dresses, we make visible how connected racial-gendered and classed power relations structure, drive, and manife…
Designing a ‘vibrant, attractive and sustainable city
Beauty, as an aesthetic ideal and intrinsically power-laden paradigm, is central to urban development projects. Yet there remains limited critical work that interrogates the colonial underpinnings, violent outcomes, and negotiations of beauty politics in urban beautification programs. In our article, we approach urban beautification campaigns in downtown Kampala, Uganda via an explicitly African, and Black feminist analytic of beauty. Specificall…
“The Ultimate Hustlers”
In this article, we examine precarious labor geographies via a feminist analysis of care and social reproduction. To do so, we center the lives of women traders working in the busy downtown market spaces of Kampala, Uganda. We examine their creative and collective business strategies, and the broader networks of family, friends, and other dependents they support. Through their testimonies, we trace the legacies of colonial capitalist histories an…
Sociology (3 works) · Colonialism (2 works) · Global trade, sustainability, and social impact (2 works) · Intersectionality (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · African history and culture studies (1 work) · African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues (1 work) · Agency (philosophy) (1 work) · Archaeology (1 work)