Contesting Heteronationalism in Uganda: Decolonial or Neocolonial?

The Ugandan state relies on a comingling of patriarchy, heterosexism
and heteronormativity to discursively construct patriotic nationalism
and regulate citizenship.

Essentialist binary dichotomies that conflate sex with gender order
society into hierarchical positions and normative gender roles.
Non-heteronormativity falls outside the idealised “charmed circle”
of patriotic Ugandan nationalism.

This is evident in the public rhetoric of the president and his 
cabinet ministers, the legislations enacted by members of parliament,
and dominant decisions of the judiciary, as well as the ethos of
religious clerics, cultural leaders and mainstream public media.
Contests against this heteronationalism come from local, regional and
global challengers. In this lecture, Dr. Nyanzi employs a post-colonial
perspectove to examine contradictions within the contestation against
entrenching heteronationalism in contemporary Uganda.

Dr. Stella Nyanzi is fellow of the Writers-in-Exile program at the PEN-Zentrum Deutschland and a fellow at the Center for Ethics and Writing at Bard College.

Diese Veranstaltung ist ausschließlich in englischer Sprache.