Description
Product ID: | 9780821423967 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Series: | New African Histories |
Title: | Seeing Like a Citizen |
Subtitle: | Decolonization, Development, and the Making of Kenya, 1945–1980 |
Authors: | Author: Kara Moskowitz |
Page Count: | 336 |
Subjects: | African history, African history, Colonialism and imperialism, Politics and government, Development economics and emerging economies, Colonialism & imperialism, Politics & government, Development economics & emerging economies, Kenya |
Description: | Select Guide Rating 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. 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 actively sought access to aid, she offers new insights into the texture of political life in decolonizing Kenya and the early postcolonial world. |
Imprint Name: | Ohio University Press |
Publisher Name: | Ohio University Press |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2019-11-12 |