Natives Around the Township”
State Spaces and the Struggle for Karamoja's Future, 1950–66
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8980358 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Samuel Meyerson (0000-0003-3788-3188, University of Wisconsin–Madison, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 65 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 344-365 |
| Publication date | 2024-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of African History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-8537 • E-ISSN: 1469-5138 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0021853724000380 |
| OpenAlex | W4404546571 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 18 |
At the moment of independence, the Karamoja region of northeastern Uganda occupied a unique position within the Ugandan state. Local communities existed largely outside the sovereignty of the state and remained disinvested from its politico-economic institutions, and policymakers saw Karamoja as a problematic challenge to their agendas of development, security, and nation-building. I contend that, in the years surrounding Uganda's independence, government officials, rural communities, and a small emergent local elite fiercely debated Karamoja's place in the Ugandan state in state spaces such as government headquarters, trading centers, and barazas. Examining these contestations in state spaces allows us to map the indigenous political epistemologies of Karamoja against the epistemology of statehood and demonstrates the diversity of political thought that existed in Karamoja. A look at political debates in Karamoja at the moment of independence also sheds light on gaps within the historiographies of belonging and marginality in African states and addresses Karamoja's exclusion from the historiography of Uganda
Colonialism · Diversity (politics · Elite · Government (linguistics · Historiography · Independence (probability theory · Indigenous · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Sovereignty · State (computer science · African history and culture analysis · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Gender Studies · Law · Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
Seeing Like a Citizen
African Socialism in Postcolonial Tanzania
Ethnic Patriotism and the East African Revival
Decolonization and African Society
A Memory of Loss
Karamoja
Imperial Frontier
Karamojan politics
Provisional notes on the postcolony
Neither Settler nor Native
Citizen and Subject
Cattle Marketing and Pastoral Conservatism
Orality in the service of Karamojong autonomy
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |