Janet McIntosh

Unsettled

Denial and Belonging Among White Kenyans

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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 ach… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-520-29051-8
EAN: 9780520290518
Produktnummer: 19223462
Verlag: University of California Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
Seitenangabe: 312 S.
Masse: H15.3 cm x B22.8 cm x D2.0 cm 430 g
Abbildungen: 1 map
Gewicht: 430
Sonstiges: Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly

Über den Autor

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.