“We Do Not Want This Sickness!”: Religion, Postcolonial Nationalism and Anti-Homosexuality Politics in Uganda
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ndltd-OhioLink-oai-etd.ohiolink.edu-osu13068893892021-08-03T06:02:58Z “We Do Not Want This Sickness!”: Religion, Postcolonial Nationalism and Anti-Homosexuality Politics in Uganda Adams, Tyler Anthony African Studies Geography Anti-Homosexuality Bill Uganda Pentecostalism Balokole Christian Right evangelicalism postcolonialism Uganda made international headlines in October 2009, when Member of Parliament (MP) David Bahati proposed the Anti-Homosexuality Bill. The bill would require the death penalty for certain acts of homosexuality. International pressure has made the bill’s passage unlikely, but the politics that went into producing it continue. This thesis examines these politics, asking how it is that homosexuality came to be conceived as such a grave threat as to require the death penalty. I analyze the statements and writings of various Ugandan anti-homosexual activists, including Pentecostal pastors and state leaders, tabloid exposés and the text of the Anti-Homosexuality Bill. Ugandans have come to understand homosexuality through American Christian Right, postcolonial nationalist, and local religious movement discourses. Together, these discourses make homosexuality a grave threat to and a neocolonial imposition upon the African heterosexual family, the laws of God, and the Ugandan nation. They come together to produce an imaginary multiscalar geography of homosexuality that precludes a homosexual national subject. I find that the bill consolidates and solidifies practices of policing, employed by a fundamentalist revival movement, already at play in Uganda. I suggest that the very dynamic that makes the passage of the Anti-Homosexuality Bill unlikely, namely the structure of the international political economy in which the African state must answer to Western states before its own citizens, galvanized the writing of the bill in the first place. 2011-07-28 English text The Ohio State University / OhioLINK http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1306889389 http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1306889389 unrestricted This thesis or dissertation is protected by copyright: all rights reserved. It may not be copied or redistributed beyond the terms of applicable copyright laws. |
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“We Do Not Want This Sickness!”: Religion, Postcolonial Nationalism and Anti-Homosexuality Politics in Uganda |
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“We Do Not Want This Sickness!”: Religion, Postcolonial Nationalism and Anti-Homosexuality Politics in Uganda |
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“We Do Not Want This Sickness!”: Religion, Postcolonial Nationalism and Anti-Homosexuality Politics in Uganda |
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“We Do Not Want This Sickness!”: Religion, Postcolonial Nationalism and Anti-Homosexuality Politics in Uganda |
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“We Do Not Want This Sickness!”: Religion, Postcolonial Nationalism and Anti-Homosexuality Politics in Uganda |
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“we do not want this sickness!”: religion, postcolonial nationalism and anti-homosexuality politics in uganda |
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