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: James Currey : paper ISBN 9780852557853
Description
Informed and lively account of British colonial welfare policy in Kenya.
This is a story about British imperial rule in Africa during the middle decades of the 20th century. It asks four questions: why was Kenya's operation so idiosyncratic and spartan compared with other British colonies? Why did a transformation from social welfare to community development produce further neglect of the very poor? Why were there no equivalents to the French tradition of community medicine? If there was a transformatory element of colonial rule that sought to address poverty, where and why did it fall down?
The answers chart a new history of administrative thought and practice in colonial Kenya, looking at the ways in which white people tried to engineer social change, and opening up the dynamics of rule within the late colonial period.
North America: Ohio U Press; Kenya: EAEP
Table of Contents
Introduction - War & welfare at the Colonial Office: empire state-building 1925-45 - 'Tropical East Ends' in war: four witnesses to the imperial politics of African welfare - Village people, family men & married women: the fantasies of wartime Kenya - 'Kingi Georgi, mtukufu': African soldiers & the Second World War - 'To work like a nigger' or 'shirk like an African': social welfare's uphill struggle, 1946-48 - The imperial politics of inclusion: community development & social engineering, 1948-53
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: James Currey : cloth ISBN 9780852557907
Description
This is a story about British imperial rule in Africa during the middle decades of the 20th century. It asks four questions: why was Kenya's operation so idiosyncratic and spartan compared with other British colonies? Why did a transformation from social welfare to community development produce further neglect of the very poor? Why were there no equivalents to the French tradition of community medicine? If there was a transformatory element of colonial rule that sought to address poverty, where and why did it fall down?
The answers chart a new history of administrative thought and practice in colonial Kenya, looking at the ways in which white people tried to engineer social change, and opening up the dynamics of rule within the late colonial period.
North America: Ohio U Press; Kenya: EAEP
Table of Contents
Introduction - War & welfare at the Colonial Office: empire state-building 1925-45 - 'Tropical East Ends' in war: four witnesses to the imperial politics of African welfare - Village people, family men & married women: the fantasies of wartime Kenya - 'Kingi Georgi, mtukufu': African soldiers & the Second World War - 'To work like a nigger' or 'shirk like an African': social welfare's uphill struggle, 1946-48 - The imperial politics of inclusion: community development & social engineering, 1948-53
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