The Making of a Petro-State: Governmentality and Development Practice in Uganda's Albertine Graben
In: Bayreuther Studien zu Politik und Gesellschaft in Afrika v.7
Cover -- Preface -- Acknowledgment -- I. Introduction -- The Making of a Petro-state -- What is at stake? -- Structural overview -- II. The Global Oil Debate -- Afro-pessimism in the oil debate -- a. Oil and government institutions -- b. Oil and authoritarianism -- c. Oil, entitlements and struggles for resource control -- The oil debate in Uganda -- Government -- Foucauldian view of government -- The epistemology of government -- III. Context and Question of methods -- Context -- Uganda's post-independence instability -- a. The era of "fundamental change" -- b. The structure of political power -- c. The national economy under Museveni -- The fundamental change, oil and government -- Question of methods -- The Government of Epistemology -- Practice of governing, governing practices -- a. Power relations and the regulation of petro-practices -- b. The art of creating order and orderability -- c. Critical attitudes and bio-political agenda from below -- IV. Making Oil Production Effective -- Oil as an institutional problem of government -- a. Uganda's Oil Policy -- b. Oil Laws and Regulations -- c. Constituting National Petro-sovereign -- The art of governing oil -- a. Rendering oil technical -- b. Caucusing mentality and petro-politics -- c. Securing national interest -- d. Euphoria of development -- Sovereignty and petro-power -- V. Constituting Petro-order -- Statistical rationalisation of petro-order -- a. The Kabaale Census - Hoima -- b. The Tilenga Census in Buliisa -- Technical problems -- Technical solutions -- a. Territorialisation: the production of spatial petro-order -- b. Bio-politicisation: the production of social petro-order -- c. Strategic Education and Capacity-building Programmes -- d. Improvements in Healthcare Facilities -- Power relations and petro-ordering -- VI. Subaltern Expressions of Petro-order.