Tyler Zoanni
Biographic Data
| ID | 92720 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tyler Zoanni |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tyler |
| FAMILY NAME | Zoanni |
| SIGNATURE | ZOANNI T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bremen |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2519-107X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 39 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
On Growth, Degrowth, and Growing
Today, growth is one of the central frameworks shaping collective life and political action across the globe. Few other ideas are now as commonsensical in guiding the aspirations of people, societies, institutions, nation-states, and entire regions—for all of which the mantra applies: Growth is good. At the same time, the dominance of growth as a self-evident good has triggered strong challenges, one of the most prominent of which is the project …
Constitutive inclusions: Rethinking disability and institutions from Uganda
This article challenges conventional critiques of institutions within disability studies and activism by drawing on fieldwork with a Catholic home and a Pentecostal school for people with intellectual disabilities in Uganda. Rather than stop at thinking about the institutional spaces of these Christian organizations as segregating exclusions from wider social life, this article approaches the work these institutions do in terms of inclusion – as …
On the Religious and the Secular in Nineteenth-Century Buganda
The case of nineteenth-century Buganda opens up a number of assumptions within scholarship about religion, secularity, and politics in African history. Although much scholarship focuses on European colonizers introduced alien categories such as religion and imposed distinctions between religion and politics, this paper foregrounds a different set of historical transformations in what is now Uganda - transformations that ultimately increased rathe…
Growth
T he figure of growth has risen to prominence in economic thinking.Without going into the intricate genealogy of this "great derangement," we simply note that a powerful natural analogy is at work: if the process of growth is fundamental to biological flourishing, then it must be for economic life too. 1 In this way, it becomes hard to think about the economic outside of this framework, where only growing economies are considered healthy. 2 While…
Intellectual Disability
‘Intellectual disability’ is a widely used psychiatric category that conceives of certain minds as impaired in their development. By approaching intellectual disability from a cross-cultural perspective, anthropology demonstrates how the condition is culturally variable. It shows, in particular, how intellectual disability is produced by different social expectations of ‘normal’ mental development and different ways of responding to adults who do…
On bundling: The aesthetics of exchange and growth in central Uganda
In central Uganda, even a casual observer would notice the widespread presentation of often identical commercial services and goods - fruit vendors, street food or motorcycle taxis, for instance - in a small shared area. This article brings the dynamics of this phenomenon into view under the heuristic rubric of 'bundling', reflecting both on diverse examples from present-day Kampala and on some of the phenomenon's historical and linguistic scaffo…
Disability Rights and Wrongs in Uganda
Uganda’s disability story is justly celebrated. The country has ratified some of the most progressive disability laws and policies in the world, and it is home to a robust disability activist movement. Disability is also highly visible in mass media and public life. At the same time, however, these laws, activism, and publicity have not significantly changed the lives of most disabled Ugandans. Uganda’s story is important in its own right, but it…
The Ecology of Disabled Minds in Urban Uganda
In this article, I analyze what I call the ecology of disabled minds in urban Uganda. This analytic notion allows me to account for the way that an interactive web of people, cultural expectations, historical changes, official discourses, and institutional resources collectively contribute to the manifestation of certain forms of human difference as unusual, as cognitive, and as disabilities. Such a notion further allows me to make sense of a set…
Prosthetics of the Soul: Disability, Christianity, and Transitional Experience in Uganda
This article reflects on the religious narratives and psychological processes of transformation in the life of a disabled man in Uganda. It calls attention to the work of Christian genre conventions that privilege decisive breaks as well as to the ways that this man's subjectivity is irreducible to such breaks. Here, the article takes inspiration from psychodynamic approaches and a psychoanalytic ethics of close listening. The analysis draws part…
Appearances of Disability and Christianity in Uganda
This article considers how Christianity contributes to the appearance of cognitive disability in Uganda, a country with some of the most progressive disability policies in the world but little in the way of formal care and advocacy for cognitively disabled people. As a point of departure, the article invokes Hannah Arendt's notion of appearance as a way to thematize the importance of public display in Ugandan social life, as well as the challenge…
Population (What is It Good For)
Population (What is It Good For?) Sandra Calkins and Tyler Zoanni Adele E. Clarke and Donna Haraway, eds., Making Kin Not Population. Chicago: Prickly Paradigm Press, 2018. 209 pp. Michelle Murphy, The Economization of Life. Durham: Duke University Press, 2017. 232 pp. Ayo Wahlberg, Good Quality: The Routinization of Sperm Banking in China. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2018. 248 pp. We invoke the anti-Vietnam War song "War" because a…
The Possibilities of Failure
This article offers a person-centred analysis that closely attends to lives shaped by cognitive disability in Uganda. It reflects on the most widely used Ugandan term for disability, obulemu, which literally means 'state of failure'. Ugandans with cognitive disabilities are often perceived as failed people (abalemu) insofar as they depart from dominant scripts for being human. Yet departures are also beginnings, and I attempt to think failure oth…
Regulating Romance: Youth Love Letters, Moral Anxiety, and Intervention in Uganda's Time of Aids by Shanti Parikh
Reviewed by: Regulating Romance: Youth Love Letters, Moral Anxiety, and Intervention in Uganda's Time of AIDS by Shanti Parikh Tyler Zoanni Shanti Parikh, Regulating Romance: Youth Love Letters, Moral Anxiety, and Intervention in Uganda's Time of AIDS. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2016. 336 pp. Shanti Parikh's Regulating Romance offers a compassionate, clear-eyed, and scrupulously researched examination of youth romance in Uganda. With…
Appearances of Disability and Christianity in Uganda
This article considers how Christianity contributes to the appearance of cognitive disability in Uganda, a country with some of the most progressive disability policies in the world but little in the way of formal care and advocacy for cognitively disabled people. As a point of departure, the article invokes Hannah Arendt's notion of appearance as a way to thematize the importance of public display in Ugandan social life, as well as the challenge…
The Possibilities of Failure
This article offers a person-centred analysis that closely attends to lives shaped by cognitive disability in Uganda. It reflects on the most widely used Ugandan term for disability, obulemu, which literally means 'state of failure'. Ugandans with cognitive disabilities are often perceived as failed people (abalemu) insofar as they depart from dominant scripts for being human. Yet departures are also beginnings, and I attempt to think failure oth…
The Ecology of Disabled Minds in Urban Uganda
In this article, I analyze what I call the ecology of disabled minds in urban Uganda. This analytic notion allows me to account for the way that an interactive web of people, cultural expectations, historical changes, official discourses, and institutional resources collectively contribute to the manifestation of certain forms of human difference as unusual, as cognitive, and as disabilities. Such a notion further allows me to make sense of a set…
On bundling: The aesthetics of exchange and growth in central Uganda
In central Uganda, even a casual observer would notice the widespread presentation of often identical commercial services and goods - fruit vendors, street food or motorcycle taxis, for instance - in a small shared area. This article brings the dynamics of this phenomenon into view under the heuristic rubric of 'bundling', reflecting both on diverse examples from present-day Kampala and on some of the phenomenon's historical and linguistic scaffo…
Growth
T he figure of growth has risen to prominence in economic thinking.Without going into the intricate genealogy of this "great derangement," we simply note that a powerful natural analogy is at work: if the process of growth is fundamental to biological flourishing, then it must be for economic life too. 1 In this way, it becomes hard to think about the economic outside of this framework, where only growing economies are considered healthy. 2 While…
Prosthetics of the Soul: Disability, Christianity, and Transitional Experience in Uganda
This article reflects on the religious narratives and psychological processes of transformation in the life of a disabled man in Uganda. It calls attention to the work of Christian genre conventions that privilege decisive breaks as well as to the ways that this man's subjectivity is irreducible to such breaks. Here, the article takes inspiration from psychodynamic approaches and a psychoanalytic ethics of close listening. The analysis draws part…
Regulating Romance: Youth Love Letters, Moral Anxiety, and Intervention in Uganda's Time of Aids by Shanti Parikh
Reviewed by: Regulating Romance: Youth Love Letters, Moral Anxiety, and Intervention in Uganda's Time of AIDS by Shanti Parikh Tyler Zoanni Shanti Parikh, Regulating Romance: Youth Love Letters, Moral Anxiety, and Intervention in Uganda's Time of AIDS. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2016. 336 pp. Shanti Parikh's Regulating Romance offers a compassionate, clear-eyed, and scrupulously researched examination of youth romance in Uganda. With…
The Possibilities of Failure
This article offers a person-centred analysis that closely attends to lives shaped by cognitive disability in Uganda. It reflects on the most widely used Ugandan term for disability, obulemu, which literally means 'state of failure'. Ugandans with cognitive disabilities are often perceived as failed people (abalemu) insofar as they depart from dominant scripts for being human. Yet departures are also beginnings, and I attempt to think failure oth…
Appearances of Disability and Christianity in Uganda
This article considers how Christianity contributes to the appearance of cognitive disability in Uganda, a country with some of the most progressive disability policies in the world but little in the way of formal care and advocacy for cognitively disabled people. As a point of departure, the article invokes Hannah Arendt's notion of appearance as a way to thematize the importance of public display in Ugandan social life, as well as the challenge…
Population (What is It Good For)
Population (What is It Good For?) Sandra Calkins and Tyler Zoanni Adele E. Clarke and Donna Haraway, eds., Making Kin Not Population. Chicago: Prickly Paradigm Press, 2018. 209 pp. Michelle Murphy, The Economization of Life. Durham: Duke University Press, 2017. 232 pp. Ayo Wahlberg, Good Quality: The Routinization of Sperm Banking in China. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2018. 248 pp. We invoke the anti-Vietnam War song "War" because a…
The Ecology of Disabled Minds in Urban Uganda
In this article, I analyze what I call the ecology of disabled minds in urban Uganda. This analytic notion allows me to account for the way that an interactive web of people, cultural expectations, historical changes, official discourses, and institutional resources collectively contribute to the manifestation of certain forms of human difference as unusual, as cognitive, and as disabilities. Such a notion further allows me to make sense of a set…
Prosthetics of the Soul: Disability, Christianity, and Transitional Experience in Uganda
This article reflects on the religious narratives and psychological processes of transformation in the life of a disabled man in Uganda. It calls attention to the work of Christian genre conventions that privilege decisive breaks as well as to the ways that this man's subjectivity is irreducible to such breaks. Here, the article takes inspiration from psychodynamic approaches and a psychoanalytic ethics of close listening. The analysis draws part…
Disability Rights and Wrongs in Uganda
Uganda’s disability story is justly celebrated. The country has ratified some of the most progressive disability laws and policies in the world, and it is home to a robust disability activist movement. Disability is also highly visible in mass media and public life. At the same time, however, these laws, activism, and publicity have not significantly changed the lives of most disabled Ugandans. Uganda’s story is important in its own right, but it…
Intellectual Disability
‘Intellectual disability’ is a widely used psychiatric category that conceives of certain minds as impaired in their development. By approaching intellectual disability from a cross-cultural perspective, anthropology demonstrates how the condition is culturally variable. It shows, in particular, how intellectual disability is produced by different social expectations of ‘normal’ mental development and different ways of responding to adults who do…
On bundling: The aesthetics of exchange and growth in central Uganda
In central Uganda, even a casual observer would notice the widespread presentation of often identical commercial services and goods - fruit vendors, street food or motorcycle taxis, for instance - in a small shared area. This article brings the dynamics of this phenomenon into view under the heuristic rubric of 'bundling', reflecting both on diverse examples from present-day Kampala and on some of the phenomenon's historical and linguistic scaffo…
Constitutive inclusions: Rethinking disability and institutions from Uganda
This article challenges conventional critiques of institutions within disability studies and activism by drawing on fieldwork with a Catholic home and a Pentecostal school for people with intellectual disabilities in Uganda. Rather than stop at thinking about the institutional spaces of these Christian organizations as segregating exclusions from wider social life, this article approaches the work these institutions do in terms of inclusion – as …
On the Religious and the Secular in Nineteenth-Century Buganda
The case of nineteenth-century Buganda opens up a number of assumptions within scholarship about religion, secularity, and politics in African history. Although much scholarship focuses on European colonizers introduced alien categories such as religion and imposed distinctions between religion and politics, this paper foregrounds a different set of historical transformations in what is now Uganda - transformations that ultimately increased rathe…
Growth
T he figure of growth has risen to prominence in economic thinking.Without going into the intricate genealogy of this "great derangement," we simply note that a powerful natural analogy is at work: if the process of growth is fundamental to biological flourishing, then it must be for economic life too. 1 In this way, it becomes hard to think about the economic outside of this framework, where only growing economies are considered healthy. 2 While…
On Growth, Degrowth, and Growing
Today, growth is one of the central frameworks shaping collective life and political action across the globe. Few other ideas are now as commonsensical in guiding the aspirations of people, societies, institutions, nation-states, and entire regions—for all of which the mantra applies: Growth is good. At the same time, the dominance of growth as a self-evident good has triggered strong challenges, one of the most prominent of which is the project …
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