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Informationen zum Autor Kara Moskowitz is associate professor of African history at the University of Missouri St. Louis. Klappentext In focusing on rural Kenyans as they actively sought access to aid, Moskowitz offers new insights into the texture of political life in the decolonizing and early postcolonial world. Her account complicates our understanding of Kenyan experiences of independence, and the meaning and form of development. Zusammenfassung In focusing on rural Kenyans as they actively sought access to aid! Moskowitz offers new insights into the texture of political life in the decolonizing and early postcolonial world. Her account complicates our understanding of Kenyan experiences of independence! and the meaning and form of development. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Abbreviations Used in Text A Note on Currency and Geography Introduction Chapter 1 “Can I Be One of Them?” - The Landscapes of Settlement in Decolonizing Kenya Chapter 2 “We Must Return to the Land That We Love” - Local Accounts and Life Histories in Three Settlement Schemes Chapter 3 “The Land Was Ours, but It Was Not Mine” - Land Marginalization and the Political Imagination Chapter 4 “If I Was Evicted, Where Could I Go?” - Cooperative Development and Contestations over Economic Citizenship Chapter 5 “A Hungry Nation Cannot Be Contented” - The Political Economy of Famine Chapter 6 “Those Poor People Who Sweated Themselves to Help Themselves” - Self-Help and the Contradictions of Citizenship and Development Chapter 7 “Are You Planting Trees or Are You Planting People?” - Local Resistance, International Development, and the Making of Kenya Conclusion Archival Source Abbreviations and Labels Used in Notes Notes Bibliography Index
