Browsing Makerere Institute of Social Research (MISR) by Type
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Beyond ethnic patriotism: A comparative study of Toro and Kigezi Districts in Uganda
(Makerere University, 2020-09)To explain the ‘puzzle of tribe’ in East Africa, the historians of Africa claimed that it was African leaders they called ‘ethnic patriots’ whose intellectual and political work constituted their people into tribes. The ... -
Beyond Religio-Cultural Violence: A Historico-Political Re-contextualization of the Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God
(Makerere University, 2023-11-05)In conceptualizing the emergence of the Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God (MRTCG) and the mass violence that the religious movement orchestrated, scholarship and popular literature have accentuated ... -
Customary resistance to marketization of land: Lango clans in Northern Uganda
(Makerere University, 2023-01-23)This PhD thesis investigates how clan leaders in the Lango region of Uganda - as a political force within society - are resisting the advance of (capitalist) markets in Land. The theoretical analysis contributes to the ... -
From Nägarit to National Sovereignty: Lineages of Political Modernity in Ethiopia
(Makerere University, 2024-12-01)This study shows that modern state power in Ethiopia emerged in a historical process of change and continuity marked by the colonial transformations of Italian East Africa (1936-1941). Theoretically conceived as a ... -
Kyapa mu Ngalo and the land question: understanding the politics and dynamics of land reform in Uganda
(Makerere University, 2024)Taking Buganda kingdom’s Kyapa mu Ngalo program and the central government’s calls to abolish Mailo land tenure as entry points, this thesis interrogates the contemporary land question in Buganda by tracing its historical ... -
People and State: A Genealogy of the Political Constitution of the Nigerian State
(Makerere University, 2024-07-04)Recent agitations to restructure the Nigerian state reflect the deep discontent that has defined the political constitution of Nigeria since the 1940s. Extant explanations attribute the absence of an agreeable political ... -
Singing politics: popular music, popular politics and contingencies of protest in NRM's Uganda
(Makerere University, 2022-05)This thesis project is an analytical examination of the deployment of musical expression in the practice of state politics under Uganda’s National Resistance Movement (NRM). There are two dimensions under which this ... -
State craft in the natural resources management structure of Uganda
(Makerere University, 2019)My thesis investigates how the process to centralize the structures of natural resource management in Uganda evolved out of and was shaped by the politics of social governance disguised as conservation. Making a conceptual ... -
Traditional Institutions and State Power: Culturalist Contestations in Buganda and Ankole
(Makerere University, 2024-11-04)This thesis examines the decolonial potential of society-based campaigns seeking to preserve culture through the creation of kingdoms and skeletal kingdoms in contemporary Uganda. In two different regions of Buganda and ... -
Transgressing Buyira: An historical inquiry into violence astride a Congo-Uganda border
(Makerere University, 2020-07)In the forenoon of 27 November 2016 Uganda’s Rwenzori region climaxed in mass bloodshed. The Buhikira Royal Palace of the Obusinga Bwa Rwenzururu (OBR) came under a fierce attack by the Uganda joint security forces. Both ...