| 书目名称 | Food and Famine in Colonial Kenya |
| 编辑 | James Duminy |
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| 概述 | Examines the history of food scarcity as a problem of government in Kenya.Contributes to scholarship on the history of food, famine and colonial government in Africa.Adds to current conceptual and met |
| 丛书名称 | African Histories and Modernities |
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| 描述 | .This book offers a genealogical critique of how food scarcity was governed incolonial Kenya. With an approach informed by the ‘analysis of government’, the study accounts for the emergence and persistence of dominant approaches to promoting food security in Kenya and elsewhere in Africa – policies and practices that prioritize increased agricultural production as the principal means of achieving food security. Drawing on a range of archival sources, the book investigates how those tasked with governing colonial Kenya confronted food as a particular kind of problem. It emphasizes the ways in which that problem shifted in conjunction with the emergence and consolidation of the colonial state and economic relations in the territory. The book applies a novel conceptual approach to the historical study of African food systems and famine, and provides the first longitudinal and in-depth analysis of the dynamics of food scarcity and its government in Kenya... |
| 出版日期 | Book 2022 |
| 关键词 | food security; food policy; food studies; Foucauldian studies; biopolitics; governmentality; food governan |
| 版次 | 1 |
| doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-10964-5 |
| isbn_softcover | 978-3-031-10966-9 |
| isbn_ebook | 978-3-031-10964-5Series ISSN 2634-5773 Series E-ISSN 2634-5781 |
| issn_series | 2634-5773 |
| copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerl |
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