Land, Ecology, and Resistance in Kenya, 1880-1952 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Land, Ecology, and Resistance in Kenya, 1880-1952 write by Fiona Mackenzie. This book was released on 1998. Land, Ecology, and Resistance in Kenya, 1880-1952 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book examines the gender and class dimensions of resistance to colonial rule in the context of struggles over the control and use of land in Murang'a (then Fort Hall) District in Kenya between 1880-1952. The objective is, first, to expose the process through which colonial rule was effected through the creation of discourses of "betterment" and "environmentalism." The author demonstrates how, by this means, the state attempted to remove the deeply political issue of land distribution between African and European from the realm of politics, and recast it in what was claimed to be the neutral language of legal regimes and of Western science and technology. The second objective is to recover the gender and class dimensions of counternarratives which challenged the colonial administration. Drawing on the stories of elderly people still living in Murang'a in the mid 1980s, in order to challenge the discourse of colonial documents, the author shows how both public and everyday forms of resistance were an integral part of the politics of resistance to colonial life.
Land, Ecology and Resistance in Kenya, 1880-1952
Land, Ecology and Resistance in Kenya, 1880-1952 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Land, Ecology and Resistance in Kenya, 1880-1952 write by Fiona Mackenzie. This book was released on 1998. Land, Ecology and Resistance in Kenya, 1880-1952 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book charts the story of the social and environmental challenges met in Kenya over a period of 70 years. Using rich case material and first hand ethnographic material, it explores the social, cultural and historical aspects of colonialism in Kenya. In particular it recognises the leading role played by women in resisting the chiefs and the colonial administration. Addressing the debates of central and eastern Africa and the central struggle for land in Kenya between settler and African, this book highlights the uses of 'betterment' and 'environmentalism' as a weapon by settlers to legitimise their occupation of the land. Land, Ecology and Resistance in Kenya 1880-1952 was the winner of the 1997-8 Joel Gregory Prize for the best book on Africa written by a Canadian or Canadian resident.
Labor in Colonial Kenya after the Forced Labor Convention, 1930–1963
Labor in Colonial Kenya after the Forced Labor Convention, 1930–1963 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Labor in Colonial Kenya after the Forced Labor Convention, 1930–1963 write by Opolot Okia. This book was released on 2019-08-23. Labor in Colonial Kenya after the Forced Labor Convention, 1930–1963 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book advances research into the government-forced labor used widely in colonial Kenya from 1930 to 1963 after the passage of the International Labor Organization’s Forced Labour Convention. While the 1930 Convention intended to mark the suppression of forced labor practices, various exemptions meant that many coercive labor practices continued in colonial territories. Focusing on East Africa and the Kenya Colony, this book shows how the colonial administration was able to exploit the exemption clause for communal labor, thus ensuring the mobilization of African labor for infrastructure development. As an exemption, communal labor was not defined as forced labor but instead justified as a continuation of traditional African and community labor practices. Despite this ideological justification, the book shows that communal labor was indeed an intensification of coercive labor practices and one that penalized Africans for non-compliance with fines or imprisonment. The use of forced labor before and after the passage of the Convention is examined, with a focus on its use during World War II as well as in efforts to combat soil erosion in the rural African reserve areas in Kenya. The exploitation of female labor, the Mau Mau war of the 1950s, civilian protests, and the regeneration of communal labor as harambee after independence are also discussed.
Geodiversity
Geodiversity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Geodiversity write by Murray Gray. This book was released on 2004-06-25. Geodiversity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A counterpoint to biodiversity, geodiversity describes the rocks, sediments, soils, fossils, landforms, and the physical processes that underlie our environment. The first book to focus exclusively on the subject, Geodiversity describes the interrelationships between geodiversity and biodiversity, the value of geodiversity to society, as well as current threats to its existence. Illustrated with global case studies throughout, the book examines traditional approaches to protecting biodiversity and the new management agenda which is starting to be used instead.
Rural Livelihoods, Regional Economies, and Processes of Change
Rural Livelihoods, Regional Economies, and Processes of Change - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rural Livelihoods, Regional Economies, and Processes of Change write by Deborah Sick. This book was released on 2014-01-10. Rural Livelihoods, Regional Economies, and Processes of Change available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. For centuries, new technologies and expanding networks of production and consumption have been changing the face of rural economies in significant ways. Millions of rural dwellers have found survival increasingly difficult and have fled to urban centres. Others have remained: some retrenching, struggling to just subsist, others attempting to innovatively redefine their place within ‘new’ rural economies. Over the past 30 years, rural economies have largely been ignored by policy makers, but recent growing concerns about food security, environmental degradation, climate change, continued rural poverty, and high rates of out-migration have sparked renewed interest in rural regions. Covering a range of geographical and socio-cultural contexts, the case studies in this book draw on actor-oriented in-depth field studies, which provide detailed, locally focused perspectives on the nature of rural livelihoods today. The collection highlights the ways in which rural livelihoods are being redefined, the multiple ways in which rural dwellers draw on distinct social, cultural and environmental resources to formulate their livelihood strategies, and the factors which facilitate or limit their abilities to do so. This volume will be of interest to development practitioners and policy makers, and scholars working in rural development and economic anthropology.
