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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Moskowitz, Kara (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, [2019]
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