6 - The History of Makerere Institute of Social Research (MISR) and her Place in the Study of the Social Sciences in Africa
Corresponding Author(s) : Stanley Baluku Bakahinga Mbalibulha
Journal of Higher Education in Africa,
Vol. 11 No. 1-2 (2013): Journal of Higher Education in Africa
Abstract
Following the research steps of the Rhodes-Livingstone Institute which started in 1937, three new research institutes were formed in the British Empire viz. The East African Institute of Social Research (later re-named Makerere Institute of Social Research [MISR]); The West African Institute of Social Research (WAISER) and the West Indies Institute of Social Research (WIISR). This expansion in knowledge production had its own logic and history as well as links to the deepening studies in social sciences, especially anthropology. Over the years, the Institute at Makerere has continued with a fledgling relationship with Makerere University with which it shares a history since 1948. We attempt to place the institute within a history; a history of social science knowledge production; a history of an endogenous institute attempting to attain indigeneity and space.
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- Alemu, K.B., Halvorsen, T., Mwiandi, M. eds, 2010, Shaping Research Universities in the Nile Basin Countries, vol. I, Kampala: Fountain.
- Alemu, K.B., Halvorsen, T., Mwiandi, M. eds, 2010, Reshaping Research Universities in the Nile Basin Countries, vol. II, Kampala: Fountain.
- Ashby, E., 1964, African Universities and Western Tradition, London: Oxford University Press.
- Ardener, S. et al. eds, 1992, Persons and Powers of Women in Diverse Cultures: Essays in the Memory of Audrey I. Richards, Phyllis Kaberry and Barbara E Ward, Provedence: Berg Publishers Limited.
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- Gladstone, J.,Early Fieldwork’ American Ethnologist, 13:2, 338-362.
- Goody, J., 1995, The Expansive Moment: Anthropology in Britain and Africa, 1918- 1970, Cambridge:Press Syndicate of the University of Cambridge.
- Government of Uganda, 1970, The Makerere University Kampala Act, 1970,Entebbe: Government Printer.
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- Kuper, A., 1999, Among the Anthropologists, London: Athlone Press.
- La Fontaine et al., 1972, The Interpretation of Ritual: Essays in Honour of A.I. Richards, London:Tavistock Press.
- Macpherson, M., 2003, They Built for the Future: A Chronicle of Makerere University College,London: Cambridge University Press.
- Mair, L., 1951, ‘EAISR First Conference’Man, 57:65.
- Makerere Institute of Social Research’, 1968, Comparative Studies in Society and History, 10:2,233.
- Mamdani, M., 2007, Scholars in the Marketplace: The Dilemmas of Neo-liberal Reform at Makerere University, 1989-2005, Kampala: Fountain.
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Government of Uganda, 1970, The Makerere University Kampala Act, 1970,Entebbe: Government Printer.
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Mair, L., 1951, ‘EAISR First Conference’Man, 57:65.
Makerere Institute of Social Research’, 1968, Comparative Studies in Society and History, 10:2,233.
Mamdani, M., 2007, Scholars in the Marketplace: The Dilemmas of Neo-liberal Reform at Makerere University, 1989-2005, Kampala: Fountain.
Mbembe, A., 2002, ‘The Archive: its Power and its Limits’ in C. Hamilton et al. eds,Refiguring the Archive, Cape Town: David Philip.
Mills, D., 2006, ‘How Not to Be a Government House Pet’ in M. Ntarangwi, D. Mills and M. Babiker eds, African Anthropologies: History, Critique and Practice, Dakar: CODESRIA.
Moore, H.L. and Vaughan, M., 1994, Cutting down Trees: Gender, Nutrition, and Agricultural Change in the Northern Province of Zambia, 1890-1990, Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann; London: James Currey;Lusaka: University of Zambia Press.
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Muriisa, B.R. and Bacwayo, K.E., 2010, ‘University Education in Uganda: ASituational Overview’ in Alemu, K.B, Halvorsen, T., Mwiandi, M. eds, Shaping Research Universities in the Nile Basin Countries, vol. I, Kampala: Fountain.
Mugerwa, D., 2002, Political Penetration and Primordial Attachment at Makerere University: A Study of Organizational Effectiveness, Kampala: MK Publishers.
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Stanner, W.E.H., 1949, ‘Report to Establish an Institute of Social Research at Makerere and on Social Science Research in Uganda and Tanganyika, c., mimeo (MISR Archive).
Stoler, A.L., 2002, ‘Colonial Archives and the Arts of Governance: On the Content in the Form’,Archival Science 2: 87–109.
Tandon, Y., 1971, to ‘Letter to Members of the Faculty of Social Sciences and other Interested Members of Makerere’ 21 Oct., (available at MISR archives).
Wandira, A., 1977, The African University in Development, Johannesburg: Ravan Press.
Werbner, R.P., 1984, ‘The Manchester School in South-Central Africa’, Annual Review of Anthropology, 13:157-185.
Yesufu, T.M. ed., 1973, Creating an African University: Emerging Issues of the 1970s, Ibadan:Oxford University Press.
Zeleza, P.T. and Olukoshi, A. eds, 2004, African Universities in the Twenty-first Century, volume II: Knowledge and Society, Dakar: CODESRIA.