Uganda's past, Ugandan futures: debates over equality and inclusion in 1979-80

这个项目将表明为什么过去对乌干达的未来很重要。围绕一个关键时刻的重点研究设计-伊迪·阿明在1979年下台后的几个月-它将创建一个跨学科团队，共同努力，以提高对过去的理解，并将这些知识传播给乌干达的多个受众，为当代关于持续不平等和排斥的辩论提供信息。通过这一研究和传播过程，该项目将为可持续发展目标4、5和10做出贡献。在乌干达早期职业学者在获得研究经验和指导方面面临严峻挑战的背景下，该项目将使档案和访谈研究方案成为可能，使早期职业学者能够发展他们的研究技能，并通过他们独特的观点和见解丰富团队，并将使分析和传播的想法得以分享。通过媒体的参与该项目将与一家报纸和地方电台以及一个致力于促进性别平等的民间社会合作伙伴共同制作成果，向非学术受众介绍研究成果，展示人文学科研究应对当代挑战的能力，展示奖学金的重要性，因为奖学金有时被低估，而且资金一直不足，阿明的倒台开启了一个可能性的时刻。独立17年后，乌干达人有机会重新开始。在这17年里，乌干达废除了宪法，实行了一党统治，发生了军事政变，并经历了长期的破坏稳定和可怕的暴力。在接下来的一年半里，人们对未来进行了积极的、多声音的辩论。在报纸、广播、城市街道和村庄里，乌干达人在思考、争论--并采取行动--追求对乌干达未来的多种愿景。那几个月动荡不安的结局--1980年12月的舞弊选举使前总统米尔顿·奥博特（Milton Obote）重新掌权--意味着这段时期在学术界基本上被忽视了，人们只记得奥博特影响力蔓延的时期。该项目将挑战这种表现，并将其作为一个充满希望的时代和一场对未来的竞赛。这不仅吸引了精英阶层的积极参与，而且也更广泛地传播到了公众中，多年来，公众第一次能够提出关于乌干达人意味着什么以及谁应该掌权的关键问题。当时的问题是紧迫的，而且是多重的，因为殖民地和后殖民地国家创造了新的不平等和排斥，使妇女失去权利，使整个国家的地区边缘化：政治代表应该采取什么形式？如何克服不平等？成为一个新乌干达的好公民意味着什么？这些问题今天仍然紧迫。该项目将回顾那几个月的激烈辩论-在当时的报纸和广播中捕捉到的，仍然活在那些参与者的记忆中-以恢复大众以及精英对政府和公民身份性质的辩论历史。它将为学术界读者制作一个编辑过的文集;并为更广泛的读者制作一系列媒体产出，从报纸文章到博客文章再到电台访谈节目。该项目将与民间社会的伙伴合作，开发一种模式，在当代政策和基层辩论中使用基于研究的过去知识。通过研究和共同生产的产品，该项目将创建一个团队，包括早期职业生涯的乌干达学者，可以成功地争取进一步的资金;并将向公众和决策者展示如何有用和重要的过去的研究可以。

This project will show why the past matters to Uganda's future. Designed around a focused study of a key moment - the months following Idi Amin's fall from power in 1979 - it will create an interdisciplinary team that works together to improve understanding of the past and disseminate that knowledge to multiple audiences in Uganda to inform contemporary debates about persistent inequality and exclusion . Through this process of research and dissemination, the project will contribute to SDGs 4, 5 and 10.A series of workshops will bring early-career researchers together with more experienced colleagues. In a context where early-career Ugandan scholars face severe challenges in securing research experience and mentoring, the project will make possible a programme of archival and interview research that allows early-career scholars to develop their research skills and to enrich the team through their distinctive perspectives and insights, and will enable the sharing of ideas on analysis and dissemination. Through the involvement of media (newspaper and local radio) and a civil society partner whose work focuses on promoting gender equality, the project will co-produce outputs that present research results to non-academic audiences, demonstrating the ability of research in the humanities to speak to contemporary challenges, showcasing the importance of scholarship that is sometimes undervalued, and consistently underfunded, in contemporary Uganda.Amin's fall opened a moment of possibility. Seventeen years after independence - years that had seen the abrogation of the constitution, the introduction of one-party rule, a military coup and a prolonged period of destabilising and terrifying violence - Ugandans had the opportunity to start again. The next year and a half saw active, multi-vocal debates over the future. In newspapers, on the radio, in urban streets and in villages, Ugandans pondered and argued - and took action - in pursuit of multiple visions of a Ugandan future.The unhappy end to those turbulent months - the rigged elections of December 1980 that brought former president Milton Obote back to power - has meant that the period has been largely ignored in scholarship, remembered simply as a time of the creeping spread of Obote's influence. The project will challenge that presentation, and resurrect this as a time of hope, and of a contest over the future. This actively engaged an elite but also spread far more widely to a public that was - for the first time in many years - able to ask critical questions about what it might mean to be Ugandan, and about who should hold authority. The questions of the time were pressing, and multiple, for colonial and post-colonial states had created new kinds of inequality and exclusion, disadvantaging women and marginalizing whole regions of the country: what form should political representation take? How could inequality be overcome? What would it mean to be a good citizen of a new Uganda? Those questions remain pressing today. The project will look back to the debates of those few hectic months - captured in newspapers and radio broadcasts of the time, and still live in the memories of those who took part - to recover a history of popular, as well as elite, debate over the nature of government and citizenship. It will produce an edited collection for academic audiences; and a series of media outputs - from newspaper articles to blog posts to radio talkshows - for wider audiences. Working with partners from civil society, the project will develop a model for using research-based knowledge of the past in contemporary policy and grassroots debates. Through research and co-production of outputs the project will create a team, involving early-career Ugandan scholars, that can bid successfully for further funding; and will show public and policy-makers how useful and important the study of the past can be.