Dr Amon Ashaba Mwiine
Researcher, Livelihood, Land & Rights
Makerere University
Amon Ashaba Mwiine is a Lecturer in the School of Women and Gender Studies, Makerere University. He holds a PhD (Sociology) from Stellenbosch University, South Africa. He teaches Men Studies: Masculinities and Development; Gender and Sexuality and Feminist theory. His research interests are in Critical studies of men and Masculinity; ethnographic and narrative forms of qualitative research; gender and politics. Dr Mwiine holds a 2-year fellowship – College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Makerere University (2019-2021), supported by Andrew W. Mellon foundation. His research project interrogates ways in which feminist activism encounters notions on men and masculinities in theory and practice.
Areas of interest
Gender and politics; masculinities; livelihoodsProject
Publications
- “Men in Kitchens and the (re) configurations of masculinity in domestic spaces during Covid-19 Lockdown in Uganda”. Gender and Covid-19, July 12 2020.
- “Negotiating patriarchy? Exploring the ambiguities of the narratives on “male champions” of gender equality in Uganda Parliament”, Agenda. 33(1) (2019):108–116.
- “Promoters of Gender Equality? A Study of the Social Construction of Specific Male Parliamentarians as “Male Champions” in Uganda”. Stellenbosch University, South Africa, 2018.
- “Contesting ideas, aligning incentives: The politics of Uganda’s Domestic Violence Act (2010)”, in Negotiating Gender Equity in the Global South: The Politics of Domestic Violence Policy, eds. S. Nazneen, S. Hickey, & S. Eleni (London & New York: Routledge, 2019):67–87.