Speaking and developing analyses from the vantage of point of directly affected persons in western Uganda, this book is focused on that small window between confirmed economic potential and actual extraction. That is, before the pipes begin to flow with oil. This window has been long for Uganda, with multiple pauses - often includes exploration, preparation, displacement, resettlement, compensation, waiting, speculation, anxiety, violence, and several often, non-voiced traumas. The researchers - who did fieldwork in teams - explore key livelihood questions around food, land, compensation and resettlement. They also focus education as schools were knocked down without building new ones, gender questions as only men signed the compensation cheques; the environment as rivers dry up. Focused on violence and the traumas of development, this book questions the extent of state involvement in the lives of ordinary folks, who tend to be "the first 'extractives' from the earth, " but are simply unwanted disposable.
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Before the First Drop
Oil, Capitalists, and the Wretcheds of Western Uganda.
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Before the First Drop
Oil, Capitalists, and the Wretcheds of Western Uganda.
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- Front cover
- Title page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgement
- Introduction
- Oil in Uganda: A history of expectations
- 1 | Crazy Rich Paupers: State hesitance and the violence of compensation in Uganda’s oil
- 2 | Disposable Humans: Hoima’s oil land rush and capitalism’s violence
- 3 | Is Oil only for men? Eviction compensation and erasure of women in western Uganda
- 4 | When oil wells were seen, our children became invisible
- Photos
- 5 | “We Won’t Have Oil for Lunch”: Contending debates over livelihoods in Uganda’s oil-rich Albertine Graben
- 6 | From Homesteads to Houses: Oil’s modernity and conflicted understanding of resettlement
- 7 | Welcoming the Curse? Questioning governance and human rights in Hoima and Buliisa after oil
- Annex A | Song: Amito Malando
- Notes on Contributors
- Back cover
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