"Poor citizens cannot advocate" : learning citizenship in constrained settings in Uganda
Citizenship and how it is promoted and learned in illiberal settings is a highly contested and contentious subject in multidisciplinary scholarship. This thesis problematises the kinds of citizenship that can be promoted in civil society spaces and what they portend for NGO-led development in constrained settings of Uganda. Conceptualising citizenship as taking place in a variety of spaces where rights and responsibilities related to decent living and dissent are contextually constructed, the thesis makes two claims: a) grassroots development is an expression of citizenship in action, and b) civil society spaces foster citizenship that is attuned to decent living and gradual change. A theoretical approach based on citizenship as a constellation of participatory, socio-material and lifelong learning is suggested. A qualitative participatory research methodology was used to explore the routine citizenship practices of communities participating in the activities of two NGOs, operating in
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- Artikkeli I: Ahimbisibwe, K. F., & Kontinen, T. (2021). Localising SDGs in Rural Uganda : Learning Active Citizenship Through the Saemaul Undong Model. In G. Nhamo, M. Togo, & K. Dube (Eds.), Sustainable Development Goals for Society Vol. 1 : Selected topics of global relevance (pp. 37-49). Springer. Sustainable Development Goals Series. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-70948-8_3
- Artikkeli II: Ahimbisibwe, K.F., & Ndidde, A.N. (2022). Learning Economic Citizenship Among Rural Women : Village Saving Groups in Western Uganda. In K. Holma, & T. Kontinen (Eds.), Learning, Philosophy, and African Citizenship (pp. 155-175). Palgrave Macmillan. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-94882-5_9
- Artikkeli III: Ahimbisibwe, F. Karembe (2022). Exploring obutyamye as material citizenship in Busoga subregion, Uganda. Nordic Journal of African Studies, Vol. 31, No. 4 (in press).
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