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Author Brisset-Foucault, Florence, 1981- author.

Title Talkative polity : radio, domination, and citizenship in Uganda / Florence Brisset-Foucault
Published Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, [2019]

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 328 pages) : illustrations
Series Cambridge centre of African studies series
Cambridge Centre of African Studies series.
Contents The ebimeeza and the political culture of Kampala's upper class -- The political economy of radio speech -- The ebimeeza and the partisanization of Ugandan politics -- The ebimeeza as a Ganda patriotic stage -- "A constituency in itself": talk radio and the redefinition of political leadership -- Taming speech: the state's suitable citizens -- The bureaucratization of the ebimeeza and the desire for discipline -- An academic model of exclusive citizenship -- Silent voices, professional orators, and shattered dreams
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 07, 2019)
Subject Political participation -- Uganda
Radio talk shows -- Political aspects -- Uganda
Radio in politics -- Uganda
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- General.
Political participation
Politics and government
Radio in politics
SUBJECT Uganda -- Politics and government -- 21st century
Subject Uganda
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0821446665
9780821446669