A Citizenship of Distinction in the Open Radio Debates of Kampala

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2102887
AutoresFlorence Brisset-Foucault (Institut des Mondes Africains, autor correspondente)
Ano2013
Volume83
Fascículo2
Páginas227-250
Data de publicação2013-05-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoAfrica (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0001-9720 • E-ISSN: 1750-0184
EditoraCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0001972013000028
OpenAlexW2120077658
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas12
Referências citadas37

This article investigates practices of speech and sociability in open radio debates in Kampala to decipher imaginaries of citizenship in contemporary Uganda. In theseebimeeza('round tables' in Luganda, also called 'people's parliaments') orators are engaged in practices of social distinction when compared to those they call the 'common men'. These spaces of discussion reflect the importance of education in local representations of legitimacy and morality, whether in Buganda 'neotraditional' mobilizations or Museveni's modernist vision of politics. Theebimeezaand the government ban imposed on them in 2009 reveal the entrenchment of the vision of a 'bifurcated' public sphere, the separation of a sphere of 'development' and a sphere of 'politics', the latter being only accessible to educated 'enlightened' individuals - despite the revolutionary discourse and the institutionalization of the Movementist 'grassroots democracy' model in 1986

Citizenship · Democracy · Grassroots · Institutionalisation · Legitimacy · Morality · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Public sphere · Sociology · African history and culture studies · African studies and sociopolitical issues · Gender Studies · Global Educational Policies and Reforms · Law