Seeing like a citizen : decolonization, development, and the making of Kenya, 1945-1980 /
"In Seeing Like a Citizen, Kara Moskowitz approaches Kenya's late colonial and early postcolonial eras as a single period of political, economic, and social transition. In focusing on rural Kenyans-the vast majority of the populace and the main targets of development interventions-as they...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Athens, Ohio :
Ohio University Press,
[2019]
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Colección: | New African histories series.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- "Can I be one of them?" The landscapes of settlement in decolonizing Kenya
- "We must return to the land that we love": local accounts and life histories in three settlement schemes
- "The land was ours but it was not mine": land marginalization and the political imagination
- "If I was evicted where could I go?" Cooperative development and contestations over economic citizenship
- "A hungry nation cannot be contented": the political economy of famine
- "Those poor people who sweated themselves to help themselves": self-help and the contradictions of citizenship and development
- "Are you planting trees or are you planting people?" Local resistance, international development, and the making of Kenya