Seeing Like a Citizen : Decolonization, Development, and the Making of Kenya, 1945-1980 /

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"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
Autor principal: Moskowitz, Kara (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, [2019]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Politics and government.
Economic development > Political aspects.
Decolonization.
HISTORY / Africa / General.
Economic development > Political aspects > Kenya.
Decolonization > Kenya.
Kenya.
Kenya > Politics and government > 20th century.
Kenya > History > 20th century.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • "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
  • Conclusion.

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