Author: Michael Cowen
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Businessmen
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Indigenous Capital in Kenya
Author: Michael Cowen
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Businessmen
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Businessmen
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Indigenous capital in Kenya
Reclaiming Indigenous Knowledge Systems
Author: Kendi Borona
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1527524124
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Conservation has, over the last couple of decades, coalesced around the language of ‘community-engagement’. Models that seemed to prop up conservation areas as those emptied of human presence are cracking under their own weight. This book grounds our understanding of people-forest relationships through the lens of Indigenous Knowledge Systems (IKS) in the Nyandarwa (Aberdare) forest reserve in Kenya, home to the Agĩkũyũ people. It confronts the history of land dispossession in Kenya, demonstrates that land continues to be a central pillar of Agĩkũyũ indigenous environmental thought, and cements the role of the forest in sustaining the struggle for independence. It also shines a light on seed and food sovereignty as arenas of knowledge mobilization and self-determination. The book concludes by showing how IKS can contribute to forging sustainable people-forest relationships.
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1527524124
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Conservation has, over the last couple of decades, coalesced around the language of ‘community-engagement’. Models that seemed to prop up conservation areas as those emptied of human presence are cracking under their own weight. This book grounds our understanding of people-forest relationships through the lens of Indigenous Knowledge Systems (IKS) in the Nyandarwa (Aberdare) forest reserve in Kenya, home to the Agĩkũyũ people. It confronts the history of land dispossession in Kenya, demonstrates that land continues to be a central pillar of Agĩkũyũ indigenous environmental thought, and cements the role of the forest in sustaining the struggle for independence. It also shines a light on seed and food sovereignty as arenas of knowledge mobilization and self-determination. The book concludes by showing how IKS can contribute to forging sustainable people-forest relationships.
Some Problems of Capital and Class in Kenya
Author: Michael Cowen
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Capital
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Capital
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
The Development of Corporate Capitalism in Kenya, 1918-77
Author: Nicola Swainson
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520039889
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520039889
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Indigenous Social Science and Economic Development in Kenya
Indigenous Enterprise in Kenya's Tourism Industry
Author: Rosemary B. Jommo
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Tourism
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Tourism
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Indigenous Elites in Africa
Author: Serah Shani
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000482219
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
This book investigates the formation, configuration and consolidation of elites amongst Kenya’s Maasai. The Maasai ethnic group is one of the world’s most anthropologized populations, but research tends to focus on what appears to be their dismal situation, analysing how their culture hinders or challenges modern ideas of economic and political development. This book instead focuses on the Maasai men and women who rise to the position of elites, overcoming the odds to take on positions as politicians, professors, CEOs, and high-end administrators. The twenty-first century has seen new opportunities for progression beyond the social reproduction of family wealth, with NGOs, missionaries, tourists and researchers providing new sources of global capital flows. The author, who is Maasai herself, demonstrates the diverse local, national, and global resources and opportunities which lead to social mobility and elite formation. The book also shows how female elites have been able to navigate a patriarchal society in their journey to attaining and maintaining elite status. This book will be of interest to researchers across the fields of anthropology, political science, international development, sociology, and African studies.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000482219
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
This book investigates the formation, configuration and consolidation of elites amongst Kenya’s Maasai. The Maasai ethnic group is one of the world’s most anthropologized populations, but research tends to focus on what appears to be their dismal situation, analysing how their culture hinders or challenges modern ideas of economic and political development. This book instead focuses on the Maasai men and women who rise to the position of elites, overcoming the odds to take on positions as politicians, professors, CEOs, and high-end administrators. The twenty-first century has seen new opportunities for progression beyond the social reproduction of family wealth, with NGOs, missionaries, tourists and researchers providing new sources of global capital flows. The author, who is Maasai herself, demonstrates the diverse local, national, and global resources and opportunities which lead to social mobility and elite formation. The book also shows how female elites have been able to navigate a patriarchal society in their journey to attaining and maintaining elite status. This book will be of interest to researchers across the fields of anthropology, political science, international development, sociology, and African studies.
Entrepreneurs and Parasites
Author: Janet MacGaffey
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107634903
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Originally published in 1987, this book demonstrates the emergence of an indigenous bourgeoisie of local capitalists without political position in Zaire.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107634903
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Originally published in 1987, this book demonstrates the emergence of an indigenous bourgeoisie of local capitalists without political position in Zaire.
Kenya's Indigenous Forests
Author: Peter Wass
Publisher: Iucn
ISBN: 9782831702926
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 135
Book Description
The result of work of the Kenya Indigenous Forest Conservation Programme, this report provides a summary of the existing information about Kenya's indigenous forests. It covers geographical background; assessment of the biodiversity, environmental services, and wood products functions and values; population pressures; utilization; economic value; policy; legislation; management guidelines; and criteria for management planning of such forests.
Publisher: Iucn
ISBN: 9782831702926
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 135
Book Description
The result of work of the Kenya Indigenous Forest Conservation Programme, this report provides a summary of the existing information about Kenya's indigenous forests. It covers geographical background; assessment of the biodiversity, environmental services, and wood products functions and values; population pressures; utilization; economic value; policy; legislation; management guidelines; and criteria for management planning of such forests.