Pub Date : 2022-08-01DOI: 10.1017/S0001972022000341
C. Collins
Abstract Not long after his election as prime minister of Ethiopia, Dr Abiy Ahmed declared that the country would privatize state-owned enterprises (SOEs) such as Ethiopian Airlines and Ethio Telcom, opening up sectors once considered off limits to foreign capital as part of his medemer reforms. On the surface, it might appear as if the Ethiopian leader was signalling a greater embrace of neoliberal (or market liberalizing) policies through his advocacy of privatization. However, this article interprets the call not as an ‘opening up’ to the demands of global capitalism, but as a calculated policy decision existing within the logics of the state’s developmentalist ideology. Through an analysis of the intellectual foundations and institutional evolution of the country’s privatization programme, I argue that the Ethiopian government privatizes SOEs as a revenue-generating strategy that augments state economic power by capitalizing on incomes gained through development investments – using the case of the domestic beer industry as my ethnographic example. By doing this, I unsettle assumptions about the meaning and uses of privatization within a developmentalist framework, demonstrating how Ethiopian leaders contend with global ideas, producing innovative strategies of resource mobilization to promote economic growth while protecting local sovereignty – a distinct form of African state capitalism.
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Pub Date : 2022-08-01DOI: 10.1017/S0001972022000432
G. Beckmann
Abstract The introduction of Ugandan Sign Language in Acholi, northern Uganda, was part of a growing internationally linked disability movement in the country and was set within the framework of development policy and human rights-based approaches. In this context, Ugandan Sign Language appeared as a technology of development. But how did the appropriation of Ugandan Sign Language change deaf people’s lives, their being-in-the-world, in Acholi? In using the theoretical approach of existential and instrumental perspectives on technologies by Martin Heidegger, this article analyses the complex transitions following the appropriation of Ugandan Sign Language on international, national and local levels. The disability movement – including Ugandan Sign Language projects – reached Acholi during the time of war between the Lord’s Resistance Army and Ugandan national forces. Displacement brought scattered deaf people together in towns and camps, where Ugandan Sign Language was introduced through workshops and institutions including churches. This created new forms of communication and possibilities of sociality. After the war, gender differences emerged, as many deaf women returned to rural homes where they had few opportunities to communicate with other sign language users.
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Pub Date : 2022-08-01DOI: 10.1017/S0001972022000390
M. Schuler
Abstract In Uganda’s refugee policy framework, food aid targets the most vulnerable – among them people with disabilities – using a categorization system. This article explores the entanglements of this technology of food distribution with disabled people’s socialities. It reveals that the system does not achieve its proposed rationale of creating equal opportunities for people who are disadvantaged within Uganda’s refugee policy of self-reliance, and that it falls short in enabling disabled people to fulfil roles and responsibilities. Nevertheless, food aid is a significant contribution that allows refugees with disabilities to cultivate family and non-kin relationships. Exploring these interdependent relations around food aid calls into question the ideas of equality and independence as fundamental principles of living together.
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Pub Date : 2022-08-01DOI: 10.1017/S0001972022000444
J. C. Mizes, Kevin P. Donovan
we build on our own ethnographic research, readings of key programmatic texts, analyses of related scholarship, and the articles collected in this issue. With these resources, we sketch out how the problem of African economic development is being reframed today. Yet we also examine the limits of this reframing and the potentially calamitous consequences of which many critics are already taking note.
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Pub Date : 2022-08-01DOI: 10.1017/s0001972022000511
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Pub Date : 2022-08-01DOI: 10.1017/S0001972022000419
A. Murangira
Abstract The Ugandan effort to provide AIDS education for the entire population raised questions about how to reach people with disabilities. Based on semi-structured interviews and participant observation with Deaf people in Kampala, this study examined how communication technologies are used in general by Deaf people, and what is specific to communicating about HIV and AIDS. It found that communication technologies, whose purpose is to mediate information, are themselves mediated by social relations. Two contrasts are apparent: between types of technology and types of relationships. The ‘old’ technologies – broadcast and print – often depend on mediation by hearing people, who create the messages and explain audio information to Deaf associates. The ‘new’ digital technologies in the form of smartphones allow Deaf people to communicate directly with one another and facilitate new forms of Deaf sociality, both online and in person. They convey information about AIDS prevention directly, obviating the need to discuss sex with family members of the parental generation, which is culturally sensitive. Smartphones are highly appreciated by Deaf people but the costs of obtaining and using them exclude many.
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Pub Date : 2022-05-01DOI: 10.1017/s0001972022000389
R. Smith
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Pub Date : 2022-05-01DOI: 10.1017/S0001972022000134
L. Enria
The book provides a valuable addition to growing calls for more interdisciplinary approaches to understanding and responding to epidemics, and for the integration of social-scientific analysis to shed light on the social dimensions of disease and effectively engage rather than eschew the political nature of health emergencies. [...]as the book shows, short-term fixes may simply prolong the status quo and even undermine states’ capacity for structural transformation, leaving the next crisis to be a matter of when, not if. The Political Life of an Epidemic provides us with an invaluable template for how to produce a post-mortem of a health emergency.
{"title":"Simukai Chigudu, The Political Life of an Epidemic: cholera, crisis and citizenship in Zimbabwe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (hb £78.99 – 978 1 108 48910 2; pb £26.99 – 978 1 108 73344 1). 2020, v + 230 pp.","authors":"L. Enria","doi":"10.1017/S0001972022000134","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0001972022000134","url":null,"abstract":"The book provides a valuable addition to growing calls for more interdisciplinary approaches to understanding and responding to epidemics, and for the integration of social-scientific analysis to shed light on the social dimensions of disease and effectively engage rather than eschew the political nature of health emergencies. [...]as the book shows, short-term fixes may simply prolong the status quo and even undermine states’ capacity for structural transformation, leaving the next crisis to be a matter of when, not if. The Political Life of an Epidemic provides us with an invaluable template for how to produce a post-mortem of a health emergency.","PeriodicalId":80373,"journal":{"name":"Africa : notiziario dell'Associazione fra le imprese italiane in Africa","volume":"51 1","pages":"384 - 385"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79072186","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-05-01DOI: 10.1017/S0001972022000201
M. Hannah
The ‘collateral damage’ Green documents covers a broad spectrum: from drastically exacerbated poverty and inequality through lost educational opportunities and life chances for young people, isolation of the aged and global increases in domestic violence and gender inequality, to the accelerated erosion of democracy and a growing acceptance of authoritarian rule. Green is most persuasive when discussing: the exclusion of the social sciences – and social considerations more generally – from crucial early decisions to embrace lockdowns;how the early Chinese lockdown strategy became palatable to Western public health officials despite its violation of previously shared principles;and the catastrophic effects of lockdown policies in the global South. [...]Toby Green’s argument remains relevant on many points.
{"title":"Toby Green , The Covid Consensus: the new politics of global inequality. London: C. Hurst & Co. (hb £14.99 – 978 1 78738 522 1). 2021, 294 pp.","authors":"M. Hannah","doi":"10.1017/S0001972022000201","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0001972022000201","url":null,"abstract":"The ‘collateral damage’ Green documents covers a broad spectrum: from drastically exacerbated poverty and inequality through lost educational opportunities and life chances for young people, isolation of the aged and global increases in domestic violence and gender inequality, to the accelerated erosion of democracy and a growing acceptance of authoritarian rule. Green is most persuasive when discussing: the exclusion of the social sciences – and social considerations more generally – from crucial early decisions to embrace lockdowns;how the early Chinese lockdown strategy became palatable to Western public health officials despite its violation of previously shared principles;and the catastrophic effects of lockdown policies in the global South. [...]Toby Green’s argument remains relevant on many points.","PeriodicalId":80373,"journal":{"name":"Africa : notiziario dell'Associazione fra le imprese italiane in Africa","volume":"117 1","pages":"400 - 401"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90256850","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-05-01DOI: 10.1017/s0001972022000468
J. Archambault, Maxim Bolt, K. Barber, T. Bassett, Heike Becker, J. Beuving, K. Breckenridge, Filip De Boeck, Greg Dobler, H. Englund, R. Fardon, J. Fokwang, J. Fontein, Eric Gable, P. Geschiere, J. Guyer, Danny Hoffman, N. Hunt, Emma Hunter, F. N. Ikanda, Deborah James, M. Janson, F. D. Jong, H. N. Kringelbach, B. Larkin, Derek R. Peterson, D. Pratten, Katrien Pype, Noah Salomon, AbdouMaliq Simone, Benjamin Soares, J. Steinberg, S. Whyte, Alcinda Honwana, Odile Goerg, A. Cutolo, M. Diawara, Andreas Eckert, J. Gewald, Adam T. Jones, O. Kane, M. Lambek, Elísio Macamo, B. Meyer, Mauro Nobili, K. Barlow, Philip Burnham, Keren Weitzberg
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