Unsettled: Denial and Belonging Among White Kenyans by Janet McIntosh (English)

Description: Unsettled by Janet McIntosh In 1963, Kenya gained independence from Britain, ending decades of white colonial rule. In this book, the author looks at the lives and dilemmas of settler descendants living in post-independence Kenya. It focuses on their discourse and narratives to ask: What stories do settler descendants tell about their claim to belong in Kenya? FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Honorable Mention for the 2018 American Ethnological Society Senior Book PrizeHonorable Mention for the 2017 Victor Turner Prize for Ethnographic Writing presented by the American Anthropological Association In 1963, Kenya gained independence from Britain, ending decades of white colonial rule. While tens of thousands of whites relocated in fear of losing their fortunes, many stayed. But over the past decade, protests, scandals, and upheavals have unsettled families with colonial origins, reminding them that their belonging is tenuous. In this book, Janet McIntosh looks at the lives and dilemmas of settler descendants living in post-independence Kenya. From clinging to a lost colonial identity to pronouncing a new Kenyan nationality, the public face of white Kenyans has undergone changes fraught with ambiguity. Drawing on fieldwork and interviews, McIntosh focuses on their discourse and narratives to ask: What stories do settler descendants tell about their claim to belong in Kenya? How do they situate themselves vis-a-vis the colonial past and anti-colonial sentiment, phrasing and re-phrasing their memories and judgments as they seek a position they feel is ethically acceptable? McIntosh explores contradictory and diverse responses: moral double consciousness, aspirations to uplift the nation, ideological blind-spots, denials, and self-doubt as her respondents strain to defend their entitlements in the face of mounting Kenyan rhetorics of ancestry. Flap "Janet McIntosh lifts the debate on belonging to a new level in this beautiful book. Her vivid portrait--a sophisticated mix of empathy and critical distance--shows how twisted memory does not necessarily undermine sincerity of feeling. Her notion of structural oblivion offers a key to the understanding of the vicissitudes of belonging also elsewhere in the present-day world. So does her magnificent demonstration of the plurality of whiteness."--Peter Geschiere, author of The Perils of Belonging: Autochthony, Citizenship and Exclusion in Africa and Europe "Richly nuanced, theoretically sophisticated, and utterly compelling... a major scholarly achievement."--Richard Schroeder, author of Africa after Apartheid: South Africa, Race, and Nation in Tanzania "This is, simply put, a splendid book... one of the best in the new and growing literature on post-colonial whiteness, and in whiteness studies generally."--Brett Shadle, author of The Souls of White Folk: White Settlers in Kenya, 1900-1920s Author Biography Janet McIntosh is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Brandeis University and author of The Edge of Islam: Power, Personhood, and Ethnoreligious Boundaries on the Kenya Coast. Table of Contents Acknowledgments 1 Unsettled 2 Loving the Land 3 Guilt 4 Conflicted Intimacies 5 Linguistic Atonement 6 The Occult Conclusion Notes References Index Details ISBN0520290496 Author Janet McIntosh Short Title UNSETTLED Publisher University of California Press Series Ethnographic Studies in Subjectivity Language English ISBN-10 0520290496 ISBN-13 9780520290495 Media Book Format Hardcover Series Number 10 Birth 1969 Year 2016 Imprint University of California Press Subtitle Denial and Belonging Among White Kenyans Place of Publication Berkerley Country of Publication United States Pages 312 Publication Date 2016-04-26 AU Release Date 2016-04-26 NZ Release Date 2016-04-26 US Release Date 2016-04-26 UK Release Date 2016-04-26 Illustrations 1 map DEWEY 305.80906762 Audience Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:159687708;

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