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Culture of Politics in Modern Kenya

English · Paperback / Softback

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Klappentext Once the major success story of a troubled continent! by the early 1990s Kenya came to be regarded as its fallen star. This book challenges such images of reversal and the analytical polarities that sustain them. The analysis ranges from telescopic to microscopic fields! combining many disciplines and perspectives to give a rich and varied picture of the culture of politics in twentieth-century Kenya. Zusammenfassung Once the major success story of a troubled continuent! Kenya came in the early 1990s to be ragarded as its fallen star. This book challenges such images of reversal and the analytical polarities which sustain them! in a multi-scale and multi-disciplinary exploration of the culture of modern Kenyan politics. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. Staging politics in Kenya; 2. Shattered silences: political culture and 'democracy' in the early 1990s; 3. Open secrets: everyday forms of domination before 1990; 4. Moral economy and the quest for wealth in central Kenya since the late nineteenth century; 5. The dove and the castor nut: Embu household economy in the 1980s; 6. Conclusions: 'the showpiece of an hour'.

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Authors Angelique Haugerud
Assisted by David Anderson (Editor), Carolyn Brown (Editor)
Publisher Cambridge University Press ELT
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 13.05.1997
 
EAN 9780521595902
ISBN 978-0-521-59590-2
No. of pages 284
Series African Studies
Subjects Humanities, art, music > History
Social sciences, law, business > Political science

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