Nett, Christina . Negotiating agency: disability activism in Uganda between local contexts and global influences. Disabil. Soc.. ABINGDON: ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD. ISSN 1360-0508
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This article explores how disability activists in Uganda mediate their agency between influences of the Global North and local realities. Narratives of activists illuminate limits to their agency on individual, community and national levels and depict challenges to apply global frameworks to local contexts. I argue that the Ugandan disability movement needs to determine a common strategy with an increased focus on social change, but activists do not have the agency to determine priorities as funding organisations impose their agendas. Activists seem to lack awareness of current debates in critical disability studies that would support engagement with unequal power relations and reflections on the assumed universality of concepts. I conclude with the call for a dialogue between critical disability studies and development studies that supports activists in Uganda can develop a context specific disability discourse. Points of interest This article explores the work of disabled people and their organisations who aim to improve the situation of disabled people in Uganda While this Ugandan disability movement has had exemplary achievements in the past, currently it seems disorganised and not unified. The priorities of the Ugandan disability movement are heavily influenced by funding organisations, which has resulted in a focus on creating laws and policies, while work to improve the attitudes of society towards disabled people has been limited. The funding organisations are mainly development organisations that work globally and rarely take specific local contexts into account. Critical disability studies debates stress the importance of local context, but the debates do not reach Ugandan disability activists. Disability studies and development studies scholars and practitioners need to work together to find ways forward that meet the needs of disabled people in contexts like Uganda.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-579176 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1080/09687599.2021.1916886 | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Disabil. Soc. | ||||||||
| Publisher: | ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD | ||||||||
| Place of Publication: | ABINGDON | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 1360-0508 | ||||||||
| Language: | English | ||||||||
| Faculty: | Unspecified | ||||||||
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| Subjects: | no entry | ||||||||
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| URI: | http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/57917 |
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