Paper short abstract:

I focus on the mobility of people, especially related to the way of subsistence for everyday life to point out that these practices could sometimes emasculate the power of politics in the globalisation.

Paper long abstract:

Fish and water, the natural resources of Lake Albert in Uganda, attract people from a wide range of areas, including the northern and western parts of Uganda, the DRC, and Rwanda. My focus is on a multi-ethnic village, which is located on the east side of the lake. About 80% of the people in this village are immigrants or descendants of immigrants.

In this presentation, I will show people's every day practices to create their lives better in the perspective of subsistence. For considering their practices, I would like to use the concept of mobility in broader sense. To understand their practices as tactics, mobility can be used to explain not only the spatial mobility, but also social mobility, including subsistence, ethnicity, nationality, and a sense of belonging.

People's everyday practices in the hopes that they can improve their own lives, and all of them are pursuing their interests by themselves. The efforts create variety of mobilities and these mobilities create the social space where everyone can enter and exit freely based on subsistence. The way of subsistence creates more the way of presentation and emancipation. Even the accidental birth place and ethnicity have been made changed. Mobilities bound subsistence could have potential to emasculate the politics of central and regional governments.