Talkative polity : radio, domination, and citizenship in Uganda / Florence Brisset-Foucault.
Material type: TextSeries: Cambridge Centre of African Studies seriesPublication details: Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, [(c)2019.]Description: 1 online resource (xv, 328 pages) : illustrationsContent type:- text
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- 0821446665
- 9780821446669
- JQ2951.91
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Online Book | G. Allen Fleece Library Online | Non-fiction | JQ2951.91 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Link to resource | Available | on1120706921 |
Includes bibliographies and index.
The ebimeeza and the political culture of Kampala's upper class -- The political economy of radio speech -- The ebimeeza and the partisanization of Ugandan politics -- The ebimeeza as a Ganda patriotic stage -- "A constituency in itself": talk radio and the redefinition of political leadership -- Taming speech: the state's suitable citizens -- The bureaucratization of the ebimeeza and the desire for discipline -- An academic model of exclusive citizenship -- Silent voices, professional orators, and shattered dreams.
Until they were banned in 2009, the radio debates called Ugandan People's Parliaments gave common folk a forum to air their views. But how do people talk about politics in an authoritarian regime? The forms and parameters of such speech turn out to be more complex than a simple confrontation between an oppressive state and a liberal civil society.
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