ISBN:
9780520290495
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9780520964631 (Sekundärausgabe)
Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
307 p.
Ausgabe:
Online-Ausg. Online-Ressource ISBN 9780520964631
Ausgabe:
[Online-Ausg.]
Serie:
Ethnographic Studies in Subjectivity v.10
DDC:
305.80906762
Schlagwort(e):
Online-Publikation
Kurzfassung:
In 1963, Kenya gained independence from Britain, ending nearly seventy years of white colonial rule. Many whites relocated outside Kenya, but some stayed. Over the past decade, however, protests, scandals, and upheavals have unsettled families with colonial origins, reminding them of the tenuousness of their full acceptance in Kenya. From clinging to a lost colonial identity to embracing a new Kenyan nationality, white settler descendants living in post-Independence Kenya have undergone changes fraught with ambiguity. Drawing on fieldwork and interviews, Janet McIntosh asks: What stories do se...
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