Non-Essential Humans : Essays on Governance, Ruin and Survival in COVID-19 Uganda / Yusuf Serunkuma.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Serunkuma, Yusuf Kajura, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

COVID-19 (Disease)--Social aspects--Uganda.

COVID-19 (Disease).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (166 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Wandegeya-Kampala, Uganda : Editor House Facility Ltd, [2022]

Summary:

Non-Essential Humans, is both a critical documentation and commentary on the world that Covid-19 created.It focuses on the diametric, but supposedly harmonious ways in which the state on the one hand, and the governed on the other, responded to their progressively altering and scary worlds.

Contents:

Front cover

Title page

Copyright page

Dedication

Contents

Foreword

Acknowledgement

1 INTRODUCTION

Copy-Pasting Europe? Essentials, Non-essentials, Quarantines and Lockdowns

2 Controlling Covid-19: Communicating a threat or coercing consent?

Between Gates and Immanuel

Science, evidence, power

Hydroxychloroquine

Betrayal in the City

Does power have a conscience?

Endnotes

3 Covid-19 tragedy in theatres in Kampala: When jokes about a disaster are more frightening than the disaster itself

Gone underground

Translating directive

A mutually agreed fakery

4 The next crisis is choosing between livelihood and safety

5 How Covid-19 thrives on the suspicious relationship between states and the people

6 Covid-19 food as politics

7 Dr Spire Ssentongo, other quarantineers, and how states coerce consent

8 You are on Your own: Some reflections on the shifting logics to social policy in Uganda

9 Reporting the Pandemic I

10 Who actually are these essential persons - and us the non-essentials?

11 In the new Covid-world order, the opposition must comply

12 The legend of Francis Zaake

13 The difficult life of an essential lawyer

14 Why are Museveni Covidaddresses messy?

15 Whose children are these darkhearted LDUs?

16 My salute to John Pombe Magufuli

17 My Salute to comics with Covid jokes

18 As we await our first Covid-19 death, the ground might be full already

19 Reporting the Pandemic II

20 They have no children in Ugandan schools, our pain isn't their pain

21 If Covidex had been invented in Europe or North America

New colonial routes

Elitist colonial mentalities

22 Why Museveni lockdowns are dangerous copy-and-paste gambles

23 Who conned Museveni that locked-down kids are at home avoiding Covid?.

24 Not just the half-science of continued school closure, but the conflicting logics of easement

25 EPILOGUE

Fakery and Fictions: Recasting The Story of Covid-19 to the Powerless Non-Essentials in Uganda

Introduction

The Politics of Knowledge Creation in the Times of Covid-19

Exposing the Fiction of WHO as Benevolent Provider of Healthcare Worldwide

The Fakery of Museveni's Violently Enforced Covid-19 Lockdown Measures

References

Back cover.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

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Other Format:

Print version: Serunkuma, Yusuf Non-Essential Humans

ISBN:

9781068497612

OCLC:

1519992244