{"id":5971,"date":"2021-06-11T11:49:55","date_gmt":"2021-06-11T15:49:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/iis\/?post_type=cu-people&p=5971"},"modified":"2025-01-16T14:23:40","modified_gmt":"2025-01-16T19:23:40","slug":"evelyn-namakula","status":"publish","type":"cu-people","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/iis\/people\/evelyn-namakula\/","title":{"rendered":"Evelyn Namakula Mayanja"},"content":{"rendered":"

Research Interests and Current Research<\/strong><\/p>\n

I am an interdisciplinary scholar passionate about global peace and security, with focus on Africa. My research follows trajectories of critical theory, decoloniality, phenomenology, Afrocentricity and African Indigenous philosophy to explore issues around international political economy of resource; wars, conflicts and cooperation in natural resource sectors; race; politics; and governance in global systems of accumulation and asymmetric international relations. My research centers on the agency, interests, human rights and human security of those marginalized by colonial and neocolonial systems of oppression, resource looting, environmental destruction, neoliberal authoritarianism and political repression. I am currently researching mineral resource-based wars\/armed conflict and\u00a0the extraction of the minerals for green\/renewable energy, and the consequences of\u00a0destruction (community, socio-economic, and environmental), cultural obliteration, land grabbing, displacement, and peacekeeping in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). I am keenly interested in African personhood, cultures, ontologies, axiologies, epistemologies, traditions and histories as\u00a0sine qua nons\u00a0<\/em>to relocating and recentering Africa\u2019s agency in issues around peace and security; natural resource governance; environmental sustainability;\u00a0\u00a0politics and economics; and the multidimensions of justice (reparation, restitution, restoration and repatriation) necessary to decolonize and to reclaim Africa\u2019s authenticity.<\/p>\n

I am also interested in critical and Ubuntu pedagogies, particularly questions around decolonization, academic independency, race, systemic and epistemic oppression in higher education. My work on these themes of teaching\/research interests is covered in peer-reviewed journals and online articles and book chapters.\u00a0\u00a0I believe that the world will know real peace, security and prosperity when the power of love, knowledge of one’s mortality, awe\u00a0and care for the dignity of every person and the environment will overcome the love for power,\u00a0\u00a0greed, the illusion of immortality, environmental destruction,\u00a0 and the dehumanization of those whose\u00a0 rights, voice, place and space to prosper\u00a0 is denied – the historical and contemporary wretched of the earth.<\/p>\n

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Selected Professional Associations<\/strong><\/p>\n