Open AccessBright Prospects or an Omnious Future
Author(s) -
Annika Witte
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
tsantsa
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2673-5377
pISSN - 1420-7834
DOI - 10.36950/tsantsa.2017.22.7343
Subject(s) - vision , curse , blessing , negotiation , resource curse , perspective (graphical) , resource (disambiguation) , politics , civil society , democracy , political science , sociology , environmental ethics , social science , law , geography , philosophy , anthropology , computer science , computer network , archaeology , artificial intelligence
Analysing competing visions of Uganda’s future with oil, this article off ers a new perspective on the resource curse as a risk discourse. Political and civil society actors in Uganda create and negotiate visions of the future that are framed by the resource curse thesis: oil could be a blessing or a curse. Connecting this discourse to prevalent notions of uncertainty in Uganda’s oil region, I argue that for the people, knowledge of the resource curse increases their uncertainty about the future.