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1970s Uganda: Past, Present, Future
No full text This paper explores the ongoing presence of the 1972 expulsion of the racialized Asian population by former president Idi Amin in contemporary Uganda. The expulsion was a “critical event” and thus the paper uses an “anthropology of the event” approach to focus on the architecture of silence and historical consciousness of the event in urban Kampala. The four arenas of focus are: (1) official state narratives; (2) community mobilization and public forums on urban African-Asian relations; (3) memories, adventure tales, and narratives expressed by Ugandan Asian men; and (4) the infrastructure and material culture of 1970s Asian property expropriation. </jats:p
The Precarious Diasporas of Sikh and Ahmadiyya Generations: Violence, Memory, and Agency. Michael Nijhawan. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. 289 pp.
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The Politics of (In)security: Reconstructing African-Asian Relations, Citizenship and Community in Post-Expulsion Uganda.
Get PDFThis dissertation explores the dynamics of geopolitical South-Southism and the
possibilities and limits of renewed African-Asian relationships in contemporary Uganda.
More specifically, I analyze processes of post-1990s Ugandan Asian and South Asian
migration to Uganda and the re-integration of a South Asian racialized minority in
President Museveni’s National Resistance Movement (NRM) national order.
First, I demonstrate that contemporary Uganda is a historically and culturally specific
space characterized by the intersection of Ugandan Asians who remained in the country
after former President Idi Amin’s 1972 expulsion decree, Ugandan Asian returnees, and
new economic migrants from the South Asian sub-continent. Through ethnographic and
historical method, I utilize the analytics of citizenship, sovereignty, and security (as well
as political economy, race, culture ethnicity, gender, and sexuality) to explore the lived
experiences of Ugandan Asians who remained, Ugandan Asian “returnees,” and new
South Asian migrants in Kampala. Oral history interviews with Ugandan Asians who
remained in Idi Amin’s regime (1972-1979), research at the Uganda Investment
Authority (UIA) in Kampala, ethnographic analysis of the politics of South Asian
community-building, and an examination of the practices of Ugandan African and South
Asian women as they respond to the increasing vulnerability of Indian women and their
bodies—all of this material reveals historical transformations in South Asian inclusion
and exclusion in Uganda and the multiple registers of racialized insecurity within which
Ugandan Asians and new South Asian migrants are embedded. While the post-1990s
state recognizes, legitimates, and manages South Asian presence in the country by
constructing Ugandan Asians and South Asian migrants as “investors,” I show that South
Asian women are rather invisible and unrecognized by emerging modes of neoliberal
economic and security-oriented global and state governance. Furthermore, I argue that
Ugandan Asians and South Asian migrants are engaged in a number of flexible
securitization practices both in Uganda and in transnational contexts. These flexible
securitization practices allow them to respond to the historical politics of racialized
insecurity by enhancing their sense of personal, family, and community-based security.PhDAnthropologyUniversity of Michigan, Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studieshttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/97891/1/anneeth_1.pd
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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