Guerrillas and Fish in Uganda

IF 0.3 Q4 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Global Environment Pub Date : 2021-02-17 DOI:10.3197/GE.2021.140104

J. Johnson

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Abstract

On 29 January 1986, Yoweri Kaguta Museveni was sworn in as President of the Republic of Uganda and his National Resistance Movement (NRM) and National Resistance Army (NRA) became the first guerrilla force to successfully overthrow a government in postcolonial Africa. Some thirty years after the NRM?s bush war was won, the Ugandan military, with President Museveni still at the helm, began officially waging what it calls a guerrilla war against its own citizens. The goal of Museveni?s second guerrilla war was not to bring forth yet another anti-imperial democratic revolution. It was instead designed to sustainably develop fisheries production in Lake Victoria, a task Museveni claims exclusive abilities to successfully steward for the benefit the Ugandan nation as a whole. Transformations in Lake Victoria?s fisheries ecology that predated the NRM?s rise to power, and indeed, predated the formal independence of the Ugandan state were shaped by and shape managerial logics that continue to justify violence against fishworkers in order to enact conventional conceptions of sustainability. Memories of tragedy and success bound up in national narratives of the 1981?1986 war for anti-imperial democratic revolution work to maintain managerial logics and regulatory regimes imposed by the former British colonial state.

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乌干达的游击队和鱼类

1986年1月29日，约韦里·卡古塔·穆塞韦尼宣誓就任乌干达共和国总统，他领导的全国抵抗运动(NRM)和全国抵抗军(NRA)成为后殖民时期非洲第一支成功推翻政府的游击队。在NRM之后的三十年?随着布什战争的胜利，在穆塞韦尼总统的领导下，乌干达军队正式开始对自己的公民发动所谓的游击战。穆塞韦尼的目标是什么?美国的第二次游击战并不是为了引发另一场反帝民主革命。相反，它的设计是为了可持续地发展维多利亚湖的渔业生产，穆塞韦尼声称自己有能力成功地管理这项任务，以造福乌干达整个国家。维多利亚湖的变化?NRM之前的渔业生态是什么?事实上，在乌干达国家正式独立之前，就已经形成了一种管理逻辑，这种逻辑继续为针对渔业工人的暴力行为辩护，以实现传统的可持续性观念。悲剧和成功的记忆交织在1981年的国家叙事中。1986年的反帝民主革命战争致力于维持前英国殖民国家强加的管理逻辑和监管制度。

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期刊介绍： The half-yearly journal Global Environment: A Journal of History and Natural and Social Sciences acts as a forum and echo chamber for ongoing studies on the environment and world history, with special focus on modern and contemporary topics. Our intent is to gather and stimulate scholarship that, despite a diversity of approaches and themes, shares an environmental perspective on world history in its various facets, including economic development, social relations, production government, and international relations. One of the journal’s main commitments is to bring together different areas of expertise in both the natural and the social sciences to facilitate a common language and a common perspective in the study of history. This commitment is fulfilled by way of peer-reviewed research articles and also by interviews and other special features. Global Environment strives to transcend the western-centric and ‘developist’ bias that has dominated international environmental historiography so far and to favour the emergence of spatially and culturally diversified points of view. It seeks to replace the notion of ‘hierarchy’ with those of ‘relationship’ and ‘exchange’ – between continents, states, regions, cities, central zones and peripheral areas – in studying the construction or destruction of environments and ecosystems.