Covid-19 pandemic is not only a global health crisis, but has also entrenched and rearticulated state-citizenship relationship differently in different political regimes. In this project, we scrutinize Tanzania and Uganda, and investigate, on one hand, the ways in which states use diverse social orders and logics to legitimate their restrictive measures and control, and on the other hand, how citizens lean on different sources of authority in making sense of the Covid-19 situation and deciding their compliance or resistance to state introduced measures. Theoretically, the project draws on and further develops the concepts of enacted citizenship and hybridity in conceptualizing the complex dynamics of citizenship, and analyses media material, speeches of state leaders and guidelines issued by Ministries, and survey respondes and interviews with diverse actors. The project is implemented in collaboration with Makerere University in Uganda and REPOA research institute in Tanzania.

2022

2026