Naked Bodies and Collective Action

Repertoires of Protest in Uganda’s Militarised, Authoritarian Regime

Bibliographic Data

ID7100609
AuthorsFrancis Abonga (Firoz Lalji Centre on Africa, Institute of Global Affairs, LSE, London, UK), Raphael Kerali (Firoz Lalji Centre on Africa, Institute of Global Affairs, LSE, London, UK), Holly Porter (0000-0003-4170-6192, University of Cambridge), Rebecca Tapscott (0000-0002-0936-5191, Firoz Lalji Centre on Africa, Institute of Global Affairs, LSE, London, UK, corresponding author)
Year2019
Volume22
Issue2-3
Pages198-223
Publication date2019-11-12
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueCivil Wars (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1369-8249 • E-ISSN: 1743-968X
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/13698249.2020.1680018
OpenAlexW2983381697
LanguageEN
Citations received17
References cited51

How can citizens living under increasingly militarized and authoritarian regimes exercise political voice? Using an in-depth case study of naked protest in modern day Uganda, this article finds that naked bodies allow citizens to employ three types of overlapping power to confront a militarized authoritarian state: biopower, symbolic power, and cosmological power. The study illustrates one way in which citizens seek to engage militarized regimes—and in doing so, how political voice takes particular forms with limited capacity to instigate broader political claim-making that might be associated with country- or region-wide political action

Action (physics · Authoritarianism · Biopower · Collective action · Democracy · Political action · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Sociology · State (computer science · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics · Law · Middle East and Rwanda Conflicts

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