The Logic of Contesting States During a Crisis: Revelations from Uganda’s COVID-19 Fight

This article is part of the series: Contested Truths

On March 12^th, 2021, students at Uganda’s Mbarara University of Science andTechnology (MUST) organised a strike. The strike, the students argued, was both a protest against online lectures and a demand for physical lectures. Notably, science and technology students protested a learning technology that was meant to ameliorate the coronavirus health crisis. One could easily interpret the strike …

Lectures

March 17, 2021

Contested Truths over COVID-19 in Africa: Introduction

By Jia Hui Lee, Laura A. Meek and Jacob Katumusiime Mwine-Kyarimpa

This article is part of the series: Contested Truths

One of the most significant challenges to confronting and mitigating the COVID-19 pandemic concerns the manufacturing, circulation, and interpretation of what we call “contested truths.” By this term, we mean the many and varied ways in which official, institutional, and/or scientific facts and recommendations about COVID-19 are challenged, ignored, or subverted at multiple scales, from the individual to the state. …

Somatosphere

Science, Medicine, and Anthropology

A collaborative website covering the intersections of medical anthropology, science and technology studies, cultural psychiatry, psychology and bioethics.

Author Archives: Jacob Katumusiime Mwine-Kyarimpa

The Logic of Contesting States During a Crisis: Revelations from Uganda’s COVID-19 Fight

Contested Truths over COVID-19 in Africa: Introduction