Food and Famine in Colonial Kenya

This book offers a genealogical critique of how food scarcity was governed in colonial 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...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Duminy, James
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Palgrave Macmillan 2022, 2022
Edition:1st ed. 2022
Series:African Histories and Modernities
Subjects:
Online Access:
Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
LEADER 02330nmm a2200325 u 4500
001 EB002121130
003 EBX01000000000000001259187
005 00000000000000.0
007 cr|||||||||||||||||||||
008 221107 ||| eng
020 |a 9783031109645 
100 1 |a Duminy, James 
245 0 0 |a Food and Famine in Colonial Kenya  |h Elektronische Ressource  |c by James Duminy 
250 |a 1st ed. 2022 
260 |a Cham  |b Palgrave Macmillan  |c 2022, 2022 
300 |a XVII, 250 p. 7 illus  |b online resource 
505 0 |a 1. Introduction.-2. Famine and Colonial Conquest.-3. Scarcity, State Control and the First World War -- 4. Scarcity and Settler Consolidation -- 5. Depression and Scarcity -- 6. Scarcity, State Control and War: Redux -- 7. Setting the Agenda -- 8. Conclusion 
653 |a Africa—History 
653 |a African Politics 
653 |a African History 
653 |a Imperialism 
653 |a Imperialism and Colonialism 
653 |a Africa—Politics and government 
041 0 7 |a eng  |2 ISO 639-2 
989 |b Springer  |a Springer eBooks 2005- 
490 0 |a African Histories and Modernities 
028 5 0 |a 10.1007/978-3-031-10964-5 
856 4 0 |u https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-10964-5?nosfx=y  |x Verlag  |3 Volltext 
082 0 |a 960 
520 |a This book offers a genealogical critique of how food scarcity was governed in colonial 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. James Duminy is Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Bristol, UK.