Kara Moskowitz

Seeing Like a Citizen

Decolonization, Development, and the Making of Kenya, 1945-1980

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In focusing on rural Kenyans as they actively sought access to aid, Moskowitz offers new insights into the texture of political life in the decolonizing and early postcolonial world. Her account complicates our understanding of Kenyan experiences of independence, and the meaning and form of development.

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Produktdetails

• New African Histories
• Verlag: Ohio University Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. November 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 176mm x 355mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 418g
• ISBN-13: 9780821423967
• ISBN-10: 0821423967
• Artikelnr.: 56272037

Autorenporträt

Kara Moskowitz is associate professor of African history at the University of Missouri St. Louis.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations Used in Text
A Note on Currency and Geography
Introduction
Chapter 1 “Can I Be One of Them?” - The Landscapes of Settlement in
Decolonizing Kenya
Chapter 2 “We Must Return to the Land That We Love” - Local Accounts and
Life Histories in Three Settlement Schemes
Chapter 3 “The Land Was Ours, but It Was Not Mine” - Land Marginalization
and the Political Imagination
Chapter 4 “If I Was Evicted, Where Could I Go?” - Cooperative Development
and Contestations over Economic Citizenship
Chapter 5 “A Hungry Nation Cannot Be Contented” - The Political Economy of
Famine
Chapter 6 “Those Poor People Who Sweated Themselves to Help Themselves” -
Self-Help and the Contradictions of Citizenship and Development
Chapter 7 “Are You Planting Trees or Are You Planting People?” - Local
Resistance, International Development, and the Making of Kenya
Conclusion
Archival Source Abbreviations and Labels Used in Notes
Notes
Bibliography
Index