• Professional Career

2017.9-2021.3 Research Assistant at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Japan.

2016-2017 Teaching Assistant at Senior Government Staff College Bwebajja, Uganda.

2014.8-2015.3 Teaching Assistant, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Japan.

2011-2013 Assistant Superintendent, Ministry of Internal Affairs, Uganda Government, Uganda.

• Selected publications

Wakana, Shiino and Ian Karusigarira (eds.). 2021. Youths in Struggles: Unemployment, Politics, and Cultures in Contemporary Africa. Tokyo: Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa.

Karusigarira, Ian. 2021. “Facing up to contemporary political absolutism through history and threats: music, LGBTI+, and youth movements in Uganda”, In Wakana Shiino and Ian Karusigarira (eds), Youths in Struggles: Unemployment, Politics, and Cultures in Contemporary Africa. Tokyo: Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, pp.125-152.

カルシガリラ・イアン　2021「第9章　歴史と脅威を通じ政治的絶対主義へ直面する――ウガンダにおける音楽、ＬＧＢＴＩ＋と政治運動」（稲永祐介・松永泰行訳）、松永泰行 編『グローバル関係学 第2巻「境界」に現れる危機』岩波書店、pp. 192-213。

Karusigarira, Ian. 2021. “A relational approach to Uganda’s state corruption as an organised crime: Decoupling analytical misconceptions on regime consolidation”ASC-TUFS Working Papers, Vol.1, pp.233-252.

Karusigarira, Ian. 2020. “Uganda’s revolutionary memory, victimhood and regime survival” In Yasuo Matsunami and Shinichi Takeuchi (Eds.), ASC-TUFS Working Papers 2019“Challenges of Development and Natural Resource Governance in Africa” Tokyo: African Studies Center- Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, pp. 75-102.

Karusigarira, Ian. 2018. “Understanding youth unemployment and social power-relations among families in Uganda: A close lens at rural Biharwe-Mbarara District”, In Wakana Shiino, Soichiro Shiraishi, and Christine Mpyangu (eds.), Diversification and Reorganization of Family in Uganda and Kenya: A Cross-cultural Analysis. The Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, pp. 37-49

Karusigarira, Ian. 2016. “The elderly, spiritualism and social power among Buhororo tribal societies in Uganda”, In Wakana Shiino, Soichiro Shiraishi, and Tom Ondicho (eds.), Redefining African Local Assets and City Environments: Governance, Research and Reflexivity, The Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, pp. 191-203. 

Karusigarira, Ian. 2015. “The systemic police corruption: Beyond New Sociological Institutionalism”. International Multilingual Journal of Contemporary Research, 3(2). doi:10.15640/imjcr.v3n2a9, pp. 83- 98.

• Social contributions

African-Japanese Academic Networking and Award

1. Collaborator at the East African-Japanese Researchers’ Network. Visit the website to see the activities  https://www.aajoint.live-on.net/en/

2. Brilliance award winner of United Nations University’s Eisaku Sato Foundation Essay Contest 2017

• Other notable activities and achievements

Academic Association Memberships

The International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences（IUAES)

Japan Society for Afrasian Studies (JSAS)

Japan Association for African Studies (JAAS)

Japan Association for Nilo-Ethiopian Studies (JANES)

• Areas in which you can provide media response

States and Politics in Africa

State Effectiveness and Accountability

Colonisation and Decolonisation of African Intellectuality

Doing Research in/on Africa, African Potentials

Patronage, Trust Networks, and Multilateralism (New Research Agenda)

• Contact

E-mail: i-karusigarira

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