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(Re)membering Kenya Vol 1 : Identity, Culture and Freedom.
One of the critical questions that Kenyans have continuously asked is what went wrong in January and February 2008 with the ëpeaceí they had hitherto enjoyed. There have not been readily available answers to this fundamental question. The collection of papers presented in this book attempt to prov...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
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Oxford :
Twaweza Communications,
2010.
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| 505 | 0 | |a Cover; Copyright Page; Title Page; Content; Acknowledgements; Foreword; Introduction; Prescript -- Blessings of Bullets: A Survivor's Personal Experience; Identity; Historicizing Negative Ethinicity in Kenya; The Genesis of 'Tribe' and Ethnicity; Ethnicity in pre-colonial Kenya; The impact of colonialism on ethnicity; Independent Kenya and 'Nation-Building'?; Conclusion; Notes; References; Negotiating 'Kenyanness': The 'Debates'; 'Kenyanness': a tenuous concept?; Living the Lie: Kenyan nationhood or ethnihood?; 'Kenyanness': History and memory reconsidered. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Gleaning through the 'Kenyan' pre-colonial historical record'Kenyanness' as a nationalist project: the colonial period; 'Kenyanness' and the national community: the independent state; Conclusion; Notes; References; Iconic Representations of Identities in Kenyan Cultures; Introduction: From K'Osewe' to Rurıng'u Stadium; Towards a theorisation of iconicity; Patriarchs, populists and radicals: Political models; Gender(ed) icons; Popular culture icons: Alternative states; Post-script: Surviving Serena; Notes; References; Gerontocracy and Generational Competition in Kenya Today. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a 'Old is gold' and wisdomOn the postcolonial power transitions and the age question; Kill me quick: subsisting in a state of permanent despair; The 'last' word; Notes; References; Culture; Socialization and Violence: Ideas and Practices in Kenya; The lingual-cultural factor in violence; Defining lingual-cultural violence; How lingual-cultural factors promote violence; The settings of hurtful and harmful language; The negative power of ideas and practices; Reflections and Suggestions; Notes; References; Gendered Identities: Women and Power(lessness) in Kenya; Theorizing women's issues. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Problematizing power: Maendeleo ya Wanawake and beyondNarrating socio-political experiences; Conclusion; Notes; References; Freedom; Cross-media Ownership and Monopolizing of Public Spaces in Kenya; Kenyan media: A brief history; Media in colonial Kenya; Media in Independent Kenya; Media, multipartism, globalization, liberalization & cross-media ownership; Critique of the role of the media; Cross-media ownership. An attempt at definition; Cross-media ownership in Kenya; The Nation Media Group (NMG); The East African Standard (EAS); The Royal Media Services. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Kiss FM, Classic FM, Radio Jambo, East FM and The StarKenya Broadcasting Corporation (KBC); Monopoly in the media and in the political economy; Political pluralism, media explosion and control; Cross-Media ownership and democracy; Curbing cross-media ownership; Media regulation; Conclusion; Notes; References; The Politics of Media Culture and Media Culture Politics; Defining media culture, freedom and regulation; Theoretical premise for understanding culture; Culture in context; The Sudan Example; Transgressing media culture; Conclusion; Notes; References. | |
| 500 | |a Globalized Identity: Diaspora Kenyans and Local Conflict. | ||
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