Practices of Citizenship in East Africa

Practices of Citizenship in East Africa uses insights from philosophical pragmatism to explore how to strengthen citizenship within developing countries. Using a bottom-up approach, the book investigates the various everyday practices in which citizenship habits are formed and reformulated. In particular, the book reflects on the challenges of implementing the ideals of transformative and critical learning in the attempts to promote active citizenship. Drawing on extensive empirical research from rural Uganda and Tanzania and bringing forward the voices of African researchers and academics, the book highlights the importance of context in defining how habits and practices of citizenship are constructed and understood within communities. The book demonstrates how conceptualizations derived from philosophical pragmatism facilitate identification of the dynamics of incremental change in citizenship. It also provides a definition of learning as reformulation of habits, which helps to understand the difficulties in promoting change. This book will be of interest to scholars within the fields of development, governance, and educational philosophy. Practitioners and policy-makers working on inclusive citizenship and interventions to strengthen civil society will also find the concepts explored in this book useful to their work. The Open Access version of this book, available at https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9780429279171, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license

Katariina Holma is Professor of Education at the University of Oulu, Finland. Tiina Kontinen is an Academy of Finland Research Fellow at the Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy, University of Jyväskylä, Finland.

1. Introduction Tiina Kontinen & Katariina Holma PART I: CONCEPTS ANCHORED IN THE PHILOSOPHICAL PRAGMATISM 2. Practices and habits of citizenship and learning Katariina Holma & Tiina Kontinen 3. Pragmatism, social inquiry and the method of democracy Henrik Rydenfelt 4. John Dewey's notion of social intelligence Veli-Mikko Kauppi, Katariina Holma & Tiina Kontinen PART II: LOCALIZED PRACTICES AND HABITS OF CITIZENSHIP 5. Contextualizing citizenship in Uganda Henni Alava, Twine H. Bananuka, Karembe F. Ahimbisibwe & Tiina Kontinen 6. Contextualizing citizenship in Tanzania Ajali M. Nguyahambi, Haji H. Chang'a, Benta N. Matunga, Rehema G. Kilonzo & Tiina Kontinen 7. The everyday and spectacle of subdued citizenship in northern Uganda Henni Alava 8. Gendered citizenship in rural Uganda: Localized, exclusive and active Alice N. Ndidde, Karembe F. Ahimbisibwe & Tiina Kontinen 9. "A good believer is a good citizen": Connecting Islamic morals with civic virtues in rural Tanzania Ajali M. Nguyahambi & Tiina Kontinen 10. Habits of contributing citizenship: Self-help groups in rural Tanzania Rehema G. Kilonzo, Benta N. Matunga, Haji H. Chang'a & Tiina Kontinen PART III: TRANFORMATIVE IDEALS AND INCREMENTAL CHANGE 11. Participatory methodology in exploring citizenship: A critical learning process Karembe F. Ahimbisibwe, Alice N. Ndidde & Tiina Kontinen 12. Learning in a Ugandan gender advocacy NGO: Organizational growth and institutional wrestling Tiina Kontinen & Alice N. Ndidde 13. The crafting of "critical education": Experiences of a Ugandan NGO Twine H. Bananuka & Vaughn M. John 14. Social accountability monitoring as an approach to promoting active citizenship in Tanzania Ajali M. Nguyahambi & Haji H. Chang'a 15. Conclusions Tiina Kontinen & Katariina Holma