Cargando…
Unsettled : Denial and Belonging Among White Kenyans /
"In 1963, Kenya gained independence from Britain, ending nearly seventy years of white colonial rule. While tens of thousands of whites relocated outside Kenya for what they hoped would be better prospects, many stayed. Over the past decade, however, protests, scandals, and upheavals have unset...
| Autor principal: | |
|---|---|
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
Oakland, California :
University of California Press,
[2016]
|
| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
|
| Temas: | |
| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
MARC
| LEADER | 00000cam a22000004a 4500 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 001 | musev2_45727 | ||
| 003 | MdBmJHUP | ||
| 005 | 20230905044800.0 | ||
| 006 | m o d | ||
| 007 | cr||||||||nn|n | ||
| 008 | 160331s2016 cau o 00 0 eng d | ||
| 020 | |a 9780520964631 | ||
| 020 | |z 0520964632 | ||
| 020 | |z 9780520290495 | ||
| 035 | |a (OCoLC)945735910 | ||
| 040 | |a MdBmJHUP |c MdBmJHUP | ||
| 100 | 1 | |a McIntosh, Janet, |d 1969- |e author. | |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Unsettled : |b Denial and Belonging Among White Kenyans / |c Janet McIntosh. |
| 264 | 1 | |a Oakland, California : |b University of California Press, |c [2016] | |
| 264 | 3 | |a Baltimore, Md. : |b Project MUSE, |c 2016 | |
| 264 | 4 | |c ©[2016] | |
| 300 | |a 1 online resource (312 pages). | ||
| 336 | |a text |b txt |2 rdacontent | ||
| 337 | |a computer |b c |2 rdamedia | ||
| 338 | |a online resource |b cr |2 rdacarrier | ||
| 490 | 0 | |a Ethnographic studies in subjectivity ; |v 10 | |
| 505 | 0 | |a Unsettled -- Loving the land -- Guilt -- Conflicted intimacies -- Linguistic atonement -- The occult. | |
| 520 | |a "In 1963, Kenya gained independence from Britain, ending nearly seventy years of white colonial rule. While tens of thousands of whites relocated outside Kenya for what they hoped would be better prospects, many stayed. Over the past decade, however, protests, scandals, and upheavals have unsettled families with colonial origins, reminding them of the tenuousness of their Kenyan identity. In this book, Janet McIntosh looks at the lives and dilemmas of settler descendants living in postindependence Kenya. From clinging to a lost colonial identity to embracing a new Kenyan nationality, the public face of white Kenyans has undergone changes fraught with ambiguity. Drawing on fieldwork and interviews, McIntosh focuses on their discourses and narratives, asking: What stories do settler descendants tell about their claims to belong in Kenya? How do they situate themselves vis-a-vis the colonial past and anticolonial sentiment, phrasing and rephrasing their memories and judgments as they seek a position they feel is ethically acceptable? With her respondents straining to defend their entitlements in the face of mounting Kenyan rhetorics of ancestry and autochthony, McIntosh explores their contradictory and diverse responses: moral double consciousness, aspirations to uplift the nation, ideological blind spots, denial, and self-doubt. Ranging from land rights to language, from romantic intimacy to the African occult, Unsettled offers a unique perspective on whiteness in a postcolonial context and a groundbreaking theory of elite subjectivity"--Provided by publisher | ||
| 588 | |a Description based on print version record. | ||
| 650 | 7 | |a White people. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst01174816 | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Social conditions. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst01919811 | |
| 650 | 7 | |a SOCIAL SCIENCE |x Anthropology |x Cultural. |2 bisacsh | |
| 650 | 7 | |a SOCIAL SCIENCE |x Minority Studies. |2 bisacsh | |
| 650 | 7 | |a SOCIAL SCIENCE |x Discrimination & Race Relations. |2 bisacsh | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Blancs |z Kenya |x Histoire. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a White people |z Kenya |x History. | |
| 651 | 7 | |a Kenya. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst01208718 | |
| 651 | 6 | |a Kenya |x Conditions sociales |y 1963- | |
| 651 | 6 | |a Kenya |x Histoire |y 1963- | |
| 651 | 0 | |a Kenya |x Social conditions |y 1963- | |
| 651 | 0 | |a Kenya |x History |y 1963- | |
| 655 | 7 | |a History. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 | |
| 655 | 7 | |a Electronic books. |2 local | |
| 710 | 2 | |a Project Muse. |e distributor | |
| 830 | 0 | |a Book collections on Project MUSE. | |
| 856 | 4 | 0 | |z Texto completo |u https://projectmuse.uam.elogim.com/book/45727/ |
| 945 | |a Project MUSE - Custom Collection | ||
| 945 | |a Project MUSE - 2016 Archaeology and Anthropology | ||
| 945 | |a Project MUSE - 2016 Complete | ||
| 945 | |a Project MUSE - 2016 African Studies | ||