| ID | 172855 |
| Title Proper | Naked Bodies and Collective Action |
| Other Title Information | Repertoires of Protest in Uganda’s Militarised, Authoritarian Regime |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Abonga, Francis |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | How can citizens living under increasingly militarized and authoritarian regimes exercise political voice? Using an in-depth case study of naked protest in modern day Uganda, this article finds that naked bodies allow citizens to employ three types of overlapping power to confront a militarized authoritarian state: biopower, symbolic power, and cosmological power. The study illustrates one way in which citizens seek to engage militarized regimes—and in doing so, how political voice takes particular forms with limited capacity to instigate broader political claim-making that might be associated with country- or region-wide political action. |
| `In' analytical Note | Civil Wars Vol. 22, No.2-3; Jun-Sep 2020: p.198-223 |
| Journal Source | Civil Wars Vol: 22 No 2-3 |
| Key Words | Authoritarian Regime ; Protest in Uganda’s Militarised |