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Bright Prospects or an Omnious Future

Author(s) -

Annika Witte

Publication year - 2017

Publication title -

tsantsa – journal of the swiss anthropological association

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.

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