Séminaire
Conférence
Crimes Against Economy: The Limits to Economic Sovereignty in Postcolonial Uganda
Dans le cadre des séminaires de recherche du laboratoire, le LACS a le plaisir d'accueillir Monsieur Donovan Kevin de l'Université d'Edinburgh.
- Date
- Le 29 avril 2021
- Horaires
- De 10:15 à 11:15
- Lieu
- En Ligne, via Zoom
- Format
- Présentiel
Postcolonial states approached decolonization not merely as political independence, but also the remaking of economic production and exchange. This historical ethnography examines how early efforts to govern value in Uganda stumbled by the 1970s, leading to a criminalization of economic life. How, I ask, did citizenship transform as fraud and hoarding, smuggling and sabotage came to dominate the provisioning of basic needs?