Rebecca Tapscott, Arbitrary States: Social Control and Modern Authoritarianism in Museveni’s Uganda. Oxford: Oxford University Press (hb £87 – 978 0 19 885647 4). 2021, 256 pp.

2024/11/01 by Travis Curtice · 1 voice
Arts and Humanities · Social Sciences · #African history and culture analysis #African history and culture studies #Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics

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• It was a joy to review Rebecca Tapscott’s @ox.ac.uk book, Arbitrary States: Social Control and Modern Authoritarianism in Museveni’s Uganda. doi.org/10.1017/S000... [bsky, 3 points, 1 comments]

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