Makerere Institute of Social Research (MISR) Collections: Recent submissions
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Widowed mama-grannies buffering HIV/AIDS-affected households in a city slum of Kampala, Uganda.
(Taylor and Francis, 2009)This article explores the experiences, challenges and coping strategies of urban elderly residents in Kasubi-Kawaala, a slum on the margins of Kampala city, Uganda. The city is mainly stereotyped as a space for able-bodied ... -
"I never thought that this baby would survive; I thought that it would die any time'; perceptions and care for preterm babies in Eastern Uganda.
(Wiley Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2010)Objective To explore the current care for and perceptions about preterm babies among community members in eastern Uganda. Methods A neonatal midwife observed care of preterm babies in one general hospital and 15 health ... -
Ambivalence surrounding elderly widows’ sexuality in urban Uganda.
(Springer, 2011)The elderly are commonly stereotyped as asexual beings. Alternatively mainly negative images abound about the sexual activities of elderly people. Based on ethnographic data this article explores diverse sexualities of ... -
Dismantling reified African culture through localised homosexualities in Uganda.
(Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group, 2013)Uganda's Anti-Homosexuality Bill of 2009 aimed at protecting the cherished culture of the people against emergent threats to the traditional heterosexual family. The Bill's justification, however, lay in myopic imaginings ... -
Queer pride and protest: A reading of the bodies at Uganda's first gay beach pride.
(The University of Chicago Press, 2014)How does one read the gendered bodies on display at a queer pride event in any context? In this article, I give my interpretation of the actions of celebrants and protesters who participated in Uganda’s first Beach Pride ... -
Homosexuality, sex work, and HIV/AIDS in displacement and post-conflict settings: The case of refugees in Uganda.
(Taylor and Francis, 2013)This article aims to disrupt the silence, invisibility and erasures of non-heteronormative sexual orientations or gender identities, and of sex work, in HIV/AIDS responses within displacement and post-conflict settings in ... -
Developing sustainable agriculture in Africa: main challenges for small farmers in Uganda
(2009-11)Conceptually, the principles of sustainable agriculture and rural development (SARD) enunciated in the den Bosch Declaration (FAO 1996) constitute the foundation for achieving food security in Africa and indeed in the world ... -
House wrenched by internal divisions: Combating Kenyan environmental Crime in the midst of an Institutional labyrinth
(2009)Environmental issues have been a common concern to all Kenyans for along time but many environmental crimes go unnoticed or simply ignored or unabated. A truck driver who illegally disposes gallons of unwanted waste on the ... -
Land reform and sustainable livelihoods in Kibaale district
(2008-12-05)Executive Summary Chapter One – Background and Introduction: This report is one of the direct outputs of policy orientated research on land tenure / land reform conducted in specific areas of Uganda and South Africa. The ... -
Land tenure in Uganda: present day tendencies
(1953)INTRODUCTION It is now over fifty years since a settlement of the land question in Buganda was made. There were two math re suits of this settlement. In the first place, the- political and usufructuary rights -of the chiefs ... -
Morality as identity: the missionary moral agenda in Buganda, 1877-1945
(Wiley-Blackwell, 1999-02)This article advances three arguments. First, that prior to European intrusion in the mid-1800s, “Buganda” and “Mugandaness” were continually contested ideologies whose meanings were not given but discursively constructed ... -
Playing pool along the shores of Lake Victoria: Fishermen, careers and capital accumulation in the Ugandan Nile perch business
(Edinburgh University Press, 2009)The 1990s saw the emergence of a thriving Nile perch export market from East Africa. This commercial table fish species is landed by migrant fishermen at villages that have sprung up along the shores of Lake Victoria and ... -
Reassessing popular participation in Uganda
(John Wiley and Sons, 2004-03-10)The 1980s saw the emergence of popular participation as a mechanism for promoting good governance in developing countries Good governance was seen as crucial to efforts to improve the welfare of poor people in countries ... -
Resettlement and integration of pastoralists in the national economy: the case of ranches restructuring in South-Western Uganda.
(2008-12-05)Introduction: The challenges of settling and integrating pastoralists in national economies, is more urgent in Africa today, as the world observes an accelerated impoverishment of pastoral peoples in the dry lands and a ... -
Urbanization in East Africa
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Vaccine safety perceptions among parents in developing countries and influence of adverse events following immunization (AEFI) on their decisions to vaccinate children
(2006-06)Over the last five years, Uganda has implemented a highly successful Expanded Immunization Programme (EPI). Currently, immunization coverage is estimated at 71 percent for all antigens from a low of 37 percent in 2000/01. ... -
Gender, class, culture and democratisation: a study of women’s participation in formal politics and collective activities in Kampala, Uganda
(2009-05-29)This thesis is an in-depth study of Ugandan women’s responses to the transition to democracy that began when the National Resistance Movement came to power in 1986. In contrast to the political repression of preceding ... -
Socio-Demographic Factors and HIV-Risk Sexual Behaviors among adolescents and young adults in Iganga district.
(Union for African Population Studies (UAPS), 2003-02)This study explored HIV-risk sexual behaviors (early coital debut, coital contact with genital ulcers, coital contact with STD, coital contact with persons suspected to have HIV/AIDS or engage in prostitution, coital contact ... -
When popular participation won't improve service provision : primary health care in Uganda
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2005)Advocates of participatory approaches to service delivery see devolution as key to empowering people to take charge of their own affairs. Participation is portrayed as guaranteeing the delivery of services that are in line ...