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      Talkative Polity

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       Talkative Polity: Radio, Domination, and Citizenship in Uganda

      Talkative Polity

       Radio, Domination, and Citizenship in Uganda

      Florence Brisset-Foucault

       Ohio University Press

       Athens

      Ohio University Press, Athens, Ohio 45701

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      Cover: Audience and presenter at Simbawo Akatii, New Life Bar, Nakulabye, Kampala, 2008. (Photo by author.)

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       Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Names: Brisset-Foucault, Florence, 1981- author.

      Title: Talkative polity : radio, domination, and citizenship in Uganda / Florence Brisset-Foucault.

      Other titles: Cambridge Centre of African Studies series.

      Description: Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, 2019. | Series: Cambridge centre of African studies series | Includes bibliographical references and index.

      Identifiers: LCCN 2019004315| ISBN 9780821423776 (hc : alk. paper) | ISBN 9780821446669 (pdf)

      Subjects: LCSH: Political participation--Uganda. | Radio talk shows--Political aspects--Uganda. | Radio in politics--Uganda. | Uganda--Politics and government--21st century.

      Classification: LCC JQ2951.A91 B75 2019 | DDC 324.096761090511--dc23

      LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019004315

      This book is dedicated to the memory of my mother, Dominique Eiferman.

      What is so perilous, then, in the fact that people speak, and that their speech proliferates? Where is the danger in that?

      —Michel Foucault, Orders of Discourse

      How the wine shop is the People’s Parliament.

      —Honoré de Balzac, The Peasants

      Contents

       List of Illustrations

       Acknowledgments

       Introduction

       ONE: The Ebimeeza and the Political Culture of Kampala’s Upper Class

       TWO: The Political Economy of Radio Speech

       THREE: The Ebimeeza and the Partisanization of Ugandan Politics

       FOUR: The Ebimeeza as a Ganda Patriotic Stage

       FIVE: “A Constituency in Itself”: Talk Radio and the Redefinition of Political Leadership

       SIX: Taming Speech: The State’s Suitable Citizens

       SEVEN: The Bureaucratization of the Ebimeeza and the Desire for Discipline

       EIGHT: An Academic Model of Exclusive Citizenship

       NINE: Silent Voices, Professional Orators, and Shattered Dreams

       Conclusion

       Notes

       Bibliography

       Index

      Illustrations

      Figures

       1.1. Opinion piece by David Ouma, “Bimeeza Took Debate Down to the People”

       1.2. Club Obbligato in Kampala, 2007

       1.3. Ekimeeza audience #1 at Club Obbligato, 2007

      

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