When:
Wednesday, October 5, 2016
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM CT
Where: 620 Library Place, 1st Floor Conference Room, 620 Library Place , Evanston, IL 60208 map it
Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Public - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students
Contact:
Program of African Studies
(847) 491-7323
Group: Program of African Studies
Category: Lectures & Meetings
Come join PAS for our weekly lunch and lecture. Lunch provided by PAS.
Speaker: Rebecca Tapscott, PhD candidate, Tufts University
Title: Vigilantes, Security Institutions, and Regime Longevity: Governing through Arbitrary Intervention in Northern Uganda
Abstract: This talk examines the relationship between Uganda's security institutions and regime longevity. It shows that uncertainty, in the form of unpredictable and harsh state interventions, plays a central role in the success of the ruling regime. In this way, the state fragments political and social resistance to its rule, remains ever-present in citizen’s imaginations while providing few services, and prevents citizens from making meaningful claims on the state.
Bio: Rebecca Tapscott is a PhD candidate at the Fletcher School and a researcher for the Justice and Security Research Programme at the London School of Economics.