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| Title: | Environment, Development, Crisis, and Crusade: Ukambani, Kenya, 1890-1990 |
| Authors: | Rocheleau, Dianne E. Steinberg, Philip E. Benjamin, Patricia A. |
| Year: | 1995 |
| Periodical: | World Development |
| Volume: | 23 |
| Issue: | 6 |
| Period: | June |
| Pages: | 1037-1051 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic term: | Kenya |
| Subjects: | Kamba development environment Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) Development and Technology Agriculture, Natural Resources and the Environment |
| External link: | https://doi.org/10.1016/0305-750X(95)00016-6 |
| Abstract: | For over a century, Ukambani (southern Kenya), the home of the Kamba people, has been the object of intense scrutiny and repeated interventions by international and national 'experts'. Outsider narratives have portrayed the region as a crucible for a series of crises, including human and livestock epidemics, overgrazing, soil erosion, low productivity, underdevelopment, fuelwood shortage, biodiversity loss and threatened wildlife. Kamba farmers, however, recount a very different story in which land alienation, land hunger, and limits on mobility of people and their herds have restructured the ecological and spatial order of their homeland, to the benefit of some and the detriment of many. This paper argues that each of the crises attributed to the Kenyan landscape and society can be viewed as successive internal impacts of processes which have their origin - in large part - outside the region. Contradictions and conflicts emerging in the First World and on the global scale have been continually 'exported' to Kenya, where they have merged with regional social and ecological systems to give the appearance of a series of local, unidimensional crises. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. |
