Insurgency and counterinsurgency in Kenya : a social history of the Shifta Conflict, c. 1963 - 1968 / by Hannah Whittaker

Englisch

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2015

VI, 176 S. : Kt. ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages [162]-172) and index

978-90-04-28267-4 : pbk.

Weitere Ausgaben: 978-90-04-28308-4 (Fernzugriff)

IntroductionThe Northern Frontier District of Kenya: people, place, and historyInsurgency and counterinsurgency in borderland KenyaSources and methodologyThe bookThe politics of NFD secession, 1960-63The political campaign for secessionModerates and radicalsDabasso Wabera and Hajj Galm DidaGaafchaama (the time of political parties)ConclusionsThe shiftaThe formation of the NFD LFBecoming shiftaSupport and opposition for shiftaConclusionsThe shifta conflict, 1963-68The NFD liberation campaign"These feuds are always there": the socioeconomic dynamics of a rural rebellionConflict in MarsabitSaifaaConclusionsGovernment responses to conflict (1) counterinsurgencyThe war against shiftaThe militarization of northern Kenya"They even called the camels shifta"ConclusionsGovernment responses to conflict (2) villagizationThe roots of villagizationImplementing villagizationThe villagization experienceConclusionsAftermath"What [is] the purpose of fighting for an empty land?''"There has never been peace": continuity and change in the local political economy of violence"We are not people of farms"Conclusions.

*Kenia / Somalia / Bewaffneter Konflikt / Geschichte 1963-1968

*Somalis -- Kenya ; Kenya -- History -- Autonomy and independence movements ; Kenya -- Politics and government -- 1963-1978 ; Kenya -- Boundaries -- Somalia ; Somalia -- Boundaries -- Kenya

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