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Cartography and the Political Imagination : Mapping Community in Colonial Kenya.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: New African Histories SeriesPublisher: Athens, OH : Ohio University Press, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (357 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780821445563
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Cartography and the Political ImaginationDDC classification:
  • 305.896395
LOC classification:
  • DT433.545.L88M33
Online resources:
Contents:
Praise for Cartography and the Political Imagination -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction. Mapping Political Communities in Africa -- 1. The Geographies of Western Kenya -- 2. Land, Gold, and Commissioning the "Tribe" -- 3. Ethnic Patriotism in the Interwar Years -- 4. Speaking Luyia: Linguistic Work and Political Imagination -- 5. Mapping Gender: Moral Crisis and the Limits of Cosmopolitan Pluralism in the 1940s -- 6. Between Loyalism and Dissent: Ethnic Geographies in the Era of Mau Mau -- 7. Mapping Decolonization -- Afterword. Beyond the Ethnos and the Nation -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: Encompassing history, geography, and political science, MacArthur's study evaluates the role of geographic imagination and the impact of cartography not only as means of expressing imperial power and constraining colonized populations, but as tools for the articulation of new political communities and resistance.
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Praise for Cartography and the Political Imagination -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction. Mapping Political Communities in Africa -- 1. The Geographies of Western Kenya -- 2. Land, Gold, and Commissioning the "Tribe" -- 3. Ethnic Patriotism in the Interwar Years -- 4. Speaking Luyia: Linguistic Work and Political Imagination -- 5. Mapping Gender: Moral Crisis and the Limits of Cosmopolitan Pluralism in the 1940s -- 6. Between Loyalism and Dissent: Ethnic Geographies in the Era of Mau Mau -- 7. Mapping Decolonization -- Afterword. Beyond the Ethnos and the Nation -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Encompassing history, geography, and political science, MacArthur's study evaluates the role of geographic imagination and the impact of cartography not only as means of expressing imperial power and constraining colonized populations, but as tools for the articulation of new political communities and resistance.

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