The Making of a Petro-State : Governmentality and Development Practice in Uganda's Albertine Graben

Language: English

Published by Nomos Okt 2020, 2020

3848767880 / 9783848767885

Series: Book 3 of 6 - Bayreuther Studien zu Politik und Gesellschaft in Afrika

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Neuware - This book illustrates the ways in which Uganda is transforming into an oil producing country, framed here as a 'petro-state'. In contrast to the term's traditional usage, here 'petro-state' highlights the deliberate attempt to reorient the political economy of Uganda towards its future production of oil. The expectation of 'petro-dollars' has compelled the state to structurally change its institutional infrastructure and attempt to reconfigure the socio-economic and spatial orientation of the population. This book presents the power relations and the dynamic struggles entangling the key actors in the process of making oil production possible in Uganda. It takes a Foucauldian approach to the question of government and power to express how the oil-related projects of development in Uganda are meant to multi-dimensionally improve the population. The author is a political geographer and currently a postdoctoral researcher involved in the 'Africa Multiple' Cluster of Excellence based at the University of Bayreuth, who has a keen interest in the politics of resource extraction in Sub-Saharan Africa, resource-related mobility struggles and the power matrix that produces contextually specific resource complexes.…

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Title
The Making of a Petro-State : Governmentality and Development Practice in Uganda's Albertine Graben
Author
Paddy Kinyera
Publisher
Nomos Okt 2020
Publication year
2020
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Neu
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Taschenbuch
Language
English
ISBN 10
3848767880
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9783848767885
Item weight
397 grams
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228x155x15 mm
Series
Book 3 of 6: Bayreuther Studien zu Politik und Gesellschaft in Afrika

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