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Talkative Polity: Radio, Domination, and Citizenship in Uganda - Cambridge Centre of African Studies Series Florence Brisset-Foucault
Talkative Polity: Radio, Domination, and Citizenship in Uganda - Cambridge Centre of African Studies Series
Florence Brisset-Foucault
Until they were banned in 2009, the radio debates called Ugandan People’s Parliaments gave common folk a forum to air their views. But how do people talk about politics in an authoritarian regime? The forms and parameters of such speech turn out to be more complex than a simple confrontation between an oppressive state and a liberal civil society.
344 pages
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | May 28, 2019 |
| ISBN13 | 9780821423776 |
| Publishers | Ohio University Press |
| Pages | 344 |
| Dimensions | 235 × 158 × 28 mm · 702 g |