PUBLICATIONS
i. Kellen Aganyira., Karembe F. Ahimbisibwe., & Tiina Kontinen (2025). Non-essential? COVID-19 disruption to teachers’ economic citizenship in low-cost private schools in Kampala City. International Development Planning Review, 1–19. https://doi.org/10.3828/idpr.2025.15
ii. Karembe F. Ahimbisibwe, Tiina Kontinen & Kellen Aganyira (2025). Making sense of the state amid the uncertainty of the COVID-19 pandemic in Kampala, Uganda. International Development Planning Review, 1-19. https://doi.org/10.3828/idpr.2025.9
iii. Karembe F. Ahimbisibwe, Kellen Aganyira, Dianah Nampijja, Constance Mudondo & Stella Achen (2025): Rhythms of Learning in NGO-supported Village Associations in Western Uganda, Global Society, 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1080/13600826.2025.2464580
iv. Tiina Kontinen & Karembe F. Ahimbisibwe. (2024). Saemaul Undong: Harbinger or mirage of hope for a rural community in Uganda? Community Development, 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1080/15575330.2024.2438010
v. Karembe F. Ahimbisibwe (2022) ’Poor Citizens Cannot Advocate’: Learning Citizenship in Constrained Settings in Uganda (PhD Thesis) available on https://jyx.jyu.fi/handle/123456789/83967
vi. Karembe, F. Ahimbisibwe (2022). Exploring obutyamye as material citizenship in Busoga subregion, Uganda. Nordic Journal of African Studies. Vol. 31, No. 4: 329–349, https://doi.org/10.53228/njas.v31i4.962
vii. Karembe F. Ahimbisibwe & Alice, N. Ndidde. (2022). Learning economic citizenship among rural women: Village saving groups in western Uganda. In Holma Katariina & Kontinen Tiina (Eds.), Learning, Philosophy and African Citizenship (pp. 155–176). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan.
viii. Karembe F. Ahimbisibwe & Tiina Kontinen. (2021) Localising SDGs in rural Uganda: Learning active citizenship through Saemaul Undong model. In Nhamo Godwell, Togo Muchaiteyo & Dube Kaitano (Eds.), Sustainable Development Goals for Society Vol. 1: Selected Topics of Global Relevance (pp. 37-49). Cham: Springer
ix. Karembe F. Ahimbisibwe, Alice, N. Ndidde & Tiina Kontinen. (2020) Participatory methodology in citizenship research: A critical learning process. In Katariina Holma. & Tiina Kontinen. (eds.) (2020) Practices of Citizenship in East Africa: Perspectives from Philosophical Pragmatism (pp. 159-175). London: Routledge.
x. Alava Henni, Twine, H. Bananuka, Karembe F. Ahimbisibwe, & Kontinen Tiina. (2020) Contextualizing citizenship in Uganda. In Holma Katariina. & Kontinen Tiina. (eds.) Practices of Citizenship in East Africa: Perspectives from Philosophical Pragmatism (pp. 57-72). London: Routledge.
xi. Alice N. Ndidde, Karembe F. Ahimbisibwe & Tiina Kontinen. (2020) Gendered citizenship in rural Uganda: Localized, exclusive and active. In Holma Katariina. & Kontinen Tiina. (eds.) Practices of Citizenship in East Africa: Perspectives from Philosophical Pragmatism (pp. 105-120). London: Routledge.
CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS ATTENDED
i. Karembe F. Ahimbisibwe and Judith Kahamba (Coordinators) Working group: (Post-)COVID-19 precarity: (Un)usual business or wasted crisis in semi-authoritarian settings? Finnish Society for Development Research, Development Days Conference 27-28 February 2025, University of Helsinki
ii. Karembe F. Ahimbisibwe, ‘This is war’: weaponization of COVID-19 pandemic in Museveni’s Uganda, Finnish Society for Development Research, Development Days Conference 27-28 February 2025, University of Helsinki
iii. Tiina Kontinen, Karembe F. Ahimbisibwe, Judith Kahamba and Kellen Aganyira: Institutional Orders in COVID-19 Responses: Negotiating State Legitimacy and Global-local Asymmetries in Uganda and Tanzania, 16th European Sociological Association (ESA) Conference 2024, Porto, Portugal, 27-30 August 2024
iv. Karembe F. Ahimbisibwe, & Tiina Kontinen: Making sense of the state: Teachers’ experiences of Covid-19 state responses in Kampala, Uganda, The RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2024, London, UK, 28-30 August 2024
v. Karembe F. Ahimbisibwe, Kellen Aganyira, Dianah Nampijja, Constance Mudondo & Stella Achen: Rhythms of Learning in NGO-supported Village Associations in Western Uganda, Sixteenth International Society for Third-Sector Research (ISTR), Antwerp University, Belgium, 16-19 July 2024
vi. Karembe F. Ahimbisibwe & Tiina Kontinen: Do NGOs help the poor or aid state nonchalance? Evidence from a rural community in western Uganda, Sixteenth International Society for Third-Sector Research (ISTR), Antwerp University, Belgium, 16-19 July 2024
vii. Karembe F. Ahimbisibwe, Henni Alava & Tiina Kontinen: How do NGO-led development initiatives affect citizenship in constrained settings? A view from rural Western Uganda, University of Lisbon, Portugal, 10-13 July 2023
viii. Karembe F. Ahimbisibwe, Benta N Matunga & Twine, H. Bananuka: Advancing a ladder of citizenship in small publics of East Africa, University of Lisbon, Portugal, 10-13 July 2023
ix. Liisa Laakso, Tiina Kontinen, Eija Ranta and Karembe F. Ahimbisibwe (Coordinators) Working Group: Democracy in Africa: politics, institutions and active citizens, Sociology Days 2022, 24-25.03.2022, University of Jyväskylä
x. Karembe F. Ahimbisibwe, Benta, N. Matunga and Twine, H. Bananuka. (Coordinators) Working group “Dealing with adversity: Community learning and grassroots organizing in constrained settings”, Nordic Development Research Conference, 21.-22.6.2021, University of Jyväskylä (Online)
xi. Karembe F. Ahimbisibwe & Tiina Kontinen: Saemaul Undong as a harbinger or mirage of hope for everyday citizenship in Uganda. Sociologipäivät, University of Helsinki, 11-12.03.2021
xii. Karembe F. Ahimbisibwe & Alice, N. Ndidde: Learning economic citizenship among rural women: Evidence from village saving groups in western Uganda, Nordic Development Research Conference, University of Jyväskylä (Online), 21-22.06.2021
xiii. Twine, H. Bananuka, Karembe F. Ahimbisibwe, Ndidde N. Alice & Kontinen Tiina: Doing the right thing(s)? Reflecting on the practice of participatory research in Western Uganda, EADI & ISS Conference (Online), 5-8.07.2021
xiv. Karembe, F. Ahimbisibwe, Alava Henni & Tiina Kontinen: How do NGO-led development initiatives affect citizenship in constrained settings? A view from rural Western Uganda, EADI & ISS Conference (Online), 5-8.07.2021
xv. Karembe, F. Ahimbisibwe: Material embeddedness of local citizenship: (In)equality in NGO livelihood interventions for constrained citizens in rural Uganda. Development Days 2020, University of Helsinki, 27.02.2020
