Grace Bantebya-Kyomuhendo
Biographic Data
| ID | 4190518 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Grace Bantebya-Kyomuhendo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Grace |
| FAMILY NAME | Bantebya-Kyomuhendo |
| SIGNATURE | BANTEBYA-KYOMUHENDO G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Makerere University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Navigating the DUO Mandate of Women and Gender Studies at Makerere University
The Programme of Women Studies at the SWGS, Makerere University, was a product of women movement in civil society and academia. It was to act as the academic arm, not only to teach, research, and undertake publications but also to perform outreach activities that serve the women’s movement in the civil society and policy makers. While in academia a number of achievements in terms of teaching, research, and publications have been realised, the ext…
Social institutions as mediating sites for changing gender norms
Poised at the intersection between childhood and the world of adults, adolescent girls face unique challenges to the full development and exercise of their capabilities. Child marriage, one of the forms of sexual violence is noted to constrain and/or shape girls’ current and life-course opportunities and capabilities. The practice remains widespread in Uganda, associated with gender discriminatory social norms, attitudes and practices that make u…
Poverty and Shame
The final chapter draws together the theoretical and conceptual threads emerging from the distinct chapters of the volume. It re-emphasizes how this work, through its focus on the social and psychological impacts of poverty, represents a fundamental shift away from orthodox scientific work on poverty which has largely sought to understand it as a purely material phenomenon. It then goes on to summarize the key findings from a comparative perspect…
Oral Tradition and Literary Portrayals of Poverty; the Evolution of Poverty Shame in Uganda
The chapter provides an analysis of literary works and proverbs spanning pre-modern and modern eras in Uganda. It suggests that in the pre-modern era, despite being endemic and severe, poverty was not shameful because its perceived underlying determinant was not personal failure but fate. Pre-modern society institutionalized the ‘rights’ of the poor and imposed sanctions on the wealthy, thus limiting the shame stemming from poverty. The analysis …
Poverty and Shame
This book draws on evidence to demonstrate how paying greater attention to the psychological and social consequences of poverty provides new insights into how poverty is perpetuated. It reveals how, irrespective of whether people live above or below a designated poverty line, in cultures as diverse as rural India, Uganda and Pakistan, urban/suburban UK, China, Norway, and South Korea, the ability to participate in society as a full and recognized…
Women, Work and Domestic Virtue in Uganda 1900-2003
I INTRODUCTION Introduction Uganda: its districts & people II THE GENERATIONS OF GRADUAL CHANGE, 1900-71 The early colonial world, 1900-39 Women's issues & the domestic virtue model The late colonial period, 1940-62 The early independence years, 1962-71 III RADICAL TRANSFORMATIONS FOR UGANDA & ITS WOMEN, 1971-2003 The Amin/Obote II period, 1971-86 The broader developments for women during the NRM period, 1986-2003 Work & gender issues in the NRM …
Kampala Women Getting By
Social institutions as mediating sites for changing gender norms
Poised at the intersection between childhood and the world of adults, adolescent girls face unique challenges to the full development and exercise of their capabilities. Child marriage, one of the forms of sexual violence is noted to constrain and/or shape girls’ current and life-course opportunities and capabilities. The practice remains widespread in Uganda, associated with gender discriminatory social norms, attitudes and practices that make u…
Kampala Women Getting By
Women, Work and Domestic Virtue in Uganda 1900-2003
I INTRODUCTION Introduction Uganda: its districts & people II THE GENERATIONS OF GRADUAL CHANGE, 1900-71 The early colonial world, 1900-39 Women's issues & the domestic virtue model The late colonial period, 1940-62 The early independence years, 1962-71 III RADICAL TRANSFORMATIONS FOR UGANDA & ITS WOMEN, 1971-2003 The Amin/Obote II period, 1971-86 The broader developments for women during the NRM period, 1986-2003 Work & gender issues in the NRM …
Poverty and Shame
The final chapter draws together the theoretical and conceptual threads emerging from the distinct chapters of the volume. It re-emphasizes how this work, through its focus on the social and psychological impacts of poverty, represents a fundamental shift away from orthodox scientific work on poverty which has largely sought to understand it as a purely material phenomenon. It then goes on to summarize the key findings from a comparative perspect…
Oral Tradition and Literary Portrayals of Poverty; the Evolution of Poverty Shame in Uganda
The chapter provides an analysis of literary works and proverbs spanning pre-modern and modern eras in Uganda. It suggests that in the pre-modern era, despite being endemic and severe, poverty was not shameful because its perceived underlying determinant was not personal failure but fate. Pre-modern society institutionalized the ‘rights’ of the poor and imposed sanctions on the wealthy, thus limiting the shame stemming from poverty. The analysis …
Poverty and Shame
This book draws on evidence to demonstrate how paying greater attention to the psychological and social consequences of poverty provides new insights into how poverty is perpetuated. It reveals how, irrespective of whether people live above or below a designated poverty line, in cultures as diverse as rural India, Uganda and Pakistan, urban/suburban UK, China, Norway, and South Korea, the ability to participate in society as a full and recognized…
Social institutions as mediating sites for changing gender norms
Poised at the intersection between childhood and the world of adults, adolescent girls face unique challenges to the full development and exercise of their capabilities. Child marriage, one of the forms of sexual violence is noted to constrain and/or shape girls’ current and life-course opportunities and capabilities. The practice remains widespread in Uganda, associated with gender discriminatory social norms, attitudes and practices that make u…
Navigating the DUO Mandate of Women and Gender Studies at Makerere University
The Programme of Women Studies at the SWGS, Makerere University, was a product of women movement in civil society and academia. It was to act as the academic arm, not only to teach, research, and undertake publications but also to perform outreach activities that serve the women’s movement in the civil society and policy makers. While in academia a number of achievements in terms of teaching, research, and publications have been realised, the ext…
Sociology (6 works) · Political science (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Poverty (3 works) · Shame (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Art (2 works)