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0000-0002-7917-2846
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Deakin University
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Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 07-09-2016
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 06-2011
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 09-03-2016
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 11-2015
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 03-12-2021
DOI: 10.1177/14687968211056379
Abstract: There is an impasse on the question of whether or not to enumerate identity groups in national censuses, given their potential to variously facilitate dominance and an emergence from marginalisation. In this paper, we theorise the impasse in Kenya as relating to a colonial history of the strategic use of ethnicity to ide and rule a demographic makeup with both some large ethnic groups and many small ones and the local social construction of ethnicity, which allows significant latitude for collapse, disaggregation and change of group identities. This case corrects the dominance of Europe and the Americas in census studies and offers insights for assessing the political stakes of counting, namely, the need to bring past and present into conversation to consider the varied political effects of demography and to consider the particular significance and meaning of ethnicity and race in context.
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 14-11-2022
DOI: 10.1111/DECH.12692
Abstract: Scholars James Ferguson and Tania Murray Li have recently and persuasively argued that a new politics of distribution is needed to address the needs of the growing numbers of people who are permanently landless and jobless. The authors of this article explore how land might feature in James Ferguson's idea of a ‘rightful share’. It details a case study of the Anti‐POSCO People's Movement (POSCO Pratirodh Sangram Samiti) of farmers, fisherfolk and landless labourers in Odisha, India, which prevented South Korean steel company POSCO from acquiring land for a steel plant. The authors offer two key arguments. The first is that a sharp distinction between landed and landless, and therefore a politics of production versus distribution, is difficult to draw. If people in need of distribution are, therefore, not necessarily landed or landless, it follows that the idea of a rightful share need not necessarily reject a role for land. The second argument is that in practical politics, land's animating and mobilizing force can potentially be harnessed toward cultivating a sense of entitlement to a rightful share.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 25-12-2020
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-01-2017
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 12-12-2016
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 17-05-2013
DOI: 10.1017/S0022278X13000049
Abstract: Recent studies of indigeneity in Africa have highlighted the problematic nature of the concept in a continent where it is difficult to determine which groups have temporal priority in a given location. These studies have suggested, with varying degrees of criticism, that indigeneity in Africa is a strategic identity deployed to attain a special status and associated benefits, often to remedy past harms. This article agrees that indigeneity is an act of positioning, but suggests that in the Kenyan context it can be deployed in another way as well, that is, as an act that seeks equal rather than special positioning within the dominant population. In this case indigeneity is not a special ‘slot’ but rather the norm. The article illustrates this by drawing on research with the Nubian community of Nairobi who seek to shed their ethnic stranger status and instead position themselves as indigenous to Nairobi in order to access the same quality of citizenship as that enjoyed by Kenya's ‘42 tribes’.
Publisher: Project MUSE
Date: 2019
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 29-03-2019
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-01-2017
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-01-2014
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