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1970s Uganda: Past, Present, Future / Hundle, Anneeth Kaur

Hundle, Anneeth Kaur	Journal Article
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This paper explores the ongoing presence of the 1972 expulsion of the racialized Asian population by former president Idi Amin in contemporary Uganda. The expulsion was a “critical event” and thus the paper uses an “anthropology of the event” approach to focus on the architecture of silence and historical consciousness of the event in urban Kampala. The four arenas of focus are: (1) official state narratives; (2) community mobilization and public forums on urban African-Asian relations; (3) memories, adventure tales, and narratives expressed by Ugandan Asian men; and (4) the infrastructure and material culture of 1970s Asian property expropriation.

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Violence ; Uganda ; South Asians ; Urban Anthropology ; 1970s ; Expulsion ;
African Asian ; Critical Event

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Transnationality hope and recombinant locality: knowledge as capital and resource / Sekine, Yasumasa

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This article searches for sustainable methods of handling the stresses of globalising existence and contrasts two strategies of using knowledge as a form of capital or resource in different forms of 'packaging from above' and 'packaging from below'. Taking the examples of appropriation of Vastuvidya in Europe and of Hindu worship of the Hawaiian Healing Stones, it is argued that such methods of re-packaging and the concept of 'recombinant locality' are strategically useful tools and devices to understand better how people may preserve glocalised spaces while opposing uniformising globalisation and capitalist domination. The article suggests that, in this way, structurally disadvantaged but hopeful and enterprising transnational individuals and groups may empower themselves to improve their 'lifeworld' in diaspora.

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Globalisation ; Philosophy ; Diaspora ; Hindutva ; knowledge ; Rationality ;
Locality ; Traditional Knowledge ; Hindus ; Hawaii ; South Asians ; Vastuvidya

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