Description
Product ID: | 9780821423776 |
Product Form: | Hardback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Series: | Cambridge Centre of African Studies Series |
Title: | Talkative Polity |
Subtitle: | Radio, Domination, and Citizenship in Uganda |
Authors: | Author: Florence Brisset-Foucault |
Page Count: | 344 |
Subjects: | Media studies, Media studies, Political structure and processes, Political structure & processes, Uganda |
Description: | 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. For the first decade of the twenty-first century, every weekend, people throughout Uganda converged to participate in ebimeeza, open debates that invited common citizens to share their political and social views. These debates, also called “People’s Parliaments,” were broadcast live on private radio stations until the government banned them in 2009. In Talkative Polity, Florence Brisset-Foucault offers the first major study of ebimeeza, which complicate our understandings of political speech in restrictive contexts and force us to move away from the simplistic binary of an authoritarian state and a liberal civil society. |
Imprint Name: | Ohio University Press |
Publisher Name: | Ohio University Press |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2019-05-28 |