Practices of Citizenship in East Africa: Perspectives from Philosophical Pragmatism

ISBN-13: 9781032176550 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 260 str.

Katariina Holma; Tiina Kontinen

Opis

Practices of Citizenship in East Africa uses insights from philosophical pragmatism to explore how to strengthen citizenship within developing countries. Using a bottom-up approach, the book investigates the various everyday practices in which citizenship habits are formed and reformulated.

Spis treści

1. Introduction  PART I: CONCEPTS ANCHORED IN THE PHILOSOPHICAL PRAGMATISM  2. Practices and habits of citizenship and learning  3. Pragmatism, social inquiry and the method of democracy  4. John Dewey’s notion of social intelligence  PART II: LOCALIZED PRACTICES AND HABITS OF CITIZENSHIP  5. Contextualizing citizenship in Uganda  6. Contextualizing citizenship in Tanzania  7. The everyday and spectacle of subdued citizenship in northern Uganda  8. Gendered citizenship in rural Uganda: Localized, exclusive and active  9. "A good believer is a good citizen": Connecting Islamic morals with civic virtues in rural Tanzania  10. Habits of contributing citizenship: Self-help groups in rural Tanzania  PART III: TRANFORMATIVE IDEALS AND INCREMENTAL CHANGE  11. Participatory methodology in exploring citizenship: A critical learning process  12. Learning in a Ugandan gender advocacy NGO: Organizational growth and institutional wrestling  13. The crafting of "critical education": Experiences of a Ugandan NGO  14. Social accountability monitoring as an approach to promoting active citizenship in Tanzania  15. Conclusions

O autorze

Katariina Holma is Professor of Education at the University of Oulu, Finland.

Tiina Kontinen is an Academy of Finland Research Fellow at the Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy, University of Jyväskylä, Finland.