Brett L Shadle
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 147330 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Brett L Shadle |
| NOMBRES | Brett L |
| APELLIDO | Shadle |
| FIRMA | SHADLE B L |
| AFILIACIONES | Virginia Tech |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3839-4952 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 19 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 86 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 19 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1999 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Kakuma Is Not Swahili for “Nowhere”
This article examines the widely used but false claim that the word Kakuma, which is the site of a large refugee camp, means “nowhere” in Swahili. It traces the origin and spread of this false translation and how Kakuma has in fact long been “somewhere” for the Turkana people. “Nowhere” makes sense only by comparing Kakuma to “somewhere,” which in turn draws on long-standing hierarchies of traditional/modern or underdeveloped/developed. Thus, thr…
Animality and Colonial Subjecthood in Africa
As I was preparing to write this review, I happened to pull from my shelf V. S. Naipaul's The Masques of Africa (2010), in which the author devotes a few paragraphs to discussing the place of animals in Nigeria. Naipaul reproduces the enduring stereotypes of white people as lovers and protectors of animals and of Africans as cruel and inhumane. Save one Nigerian Naipual met, only white people in the country (he claims) were concerned about allevi…
The “problem” of the urban refugee
This article examines a short era in which the category of the African “urban refugee” garnered special attention from governments and non-governmental organizations. In the late 1960s, those dealing with refugee issues began to perceive urban refugees as posing a unique set of problems, ones that required intervention by specialized professionals. This shift in thinking came to fruition with the Joint Refugee Services of Kenya (JRSK). For the fi…
Reluctant Humanitarians
Following the Italian invasion of Ethiopia in 1935, several hundred Eritrean deserters from the Italian army and several thousand Ethiopian officials, soldiers, and civilians fled to Kenya. British officials on the border, in Nairobi, and in London found themselves deeply conflicted over how to deal with these refugees. Sheltering refugees was costly, and it antagonised the Italians whose friendship (or at least neutrality) the British hoped to w…
Rachel Jean-Baptiste. Conjugal Rights
Journal Article Rachel Jean-Baptiste. Conjugal Rights: Marriage, Sexuality, and Urban Life in Colonial Libreville, Gabon. Get access Rachel Jean-Baptiste. Conjugal Rights: Marriage, Sexuality, and Urban Life in Colonial Libreville, Gabon. (New African Histories.) Athens: Ohio University Press, 2014. Pp. xiii, 300. Cloth $80.00, paper $32.95. Brett Shadle Brett Shadle Virginia Tech [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Aca…
The Souls of White Folk
Kenya’s white settlers have long captivated observers. They are alternately celebrated and condemned, painted as romantic pioneers or hedonistic bed-hoppers or crude racists. If we wish to better understand Kenya’s tortured history, however, we must examine settlers not as caricatures, but as people inhabiting a unique historical moment. We must ask, what animated their lives? What comforted them and what unnerved them, to whom did they direct lo…
The Souls of White Folk
Kenya's white settlers have been alternately celebrated and condemned, painted as romantic pioneers or hedonistic bed-hoppers or crude racists. The souls of white folk examines settlers not as caricatures, but as people inhabiting a unique historical moment. It takes seriously - though not uncritically - what settlers said, how they viewed themselves and their world. It argues that the settler soul was composed of a series of interlaced ideas: se…
Madness and marginality
Cruelty and Empathy, Animals and Race, in Colonial Kenya
Journal Article Cruelty and Empathy, Animals and Race, in Colonial Kenya Get access Brett L. Shadle Brett L. Shadle [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 45, Issue 4, Summer 2012, Pages 1097–1116, https://doi.org/10.1093/jsh/shr152 Published: 01 June 2012
A Time There Was
Smith, James Howard.— Bewitching Development
Reading Smith’s book brought to mind two recurrent episodes in my own experiences researching and teaching African studies.As a graduate student in the mid-1990s I was familiar with the critiques of “development”—it was teleological, it established the West as the benchmark to which the rest of the world should strive, the development project tended to be top-down and funneled aid money back to donor nations.Yet when I arrived in Kenya to carry o…
White settlers and the law in early colonial Kenya
This article examines settler attitudes toward the law and the legal system in early colonial Kenya. Settlers believed that English law was the culmination of centuries of evolution and was unsurpassed for its justice and logic. Nonetheless, they insisted English law and legal procedure were supremely ill-suited for the African context. When courts released Africans on "technicalities" it only encouraged more crime; insufficient punishments did t…
A Failed Eldorado
Reviewed by: A Failed Eldorado: Colonial Capitalism, Rural Industrialization, Africa Land Rights in Kenya, and the Kakamega Gold Rush, 1930–1952 Brett L. Shadle A Failed Eldorado: Colonial Capitalism, Rural Industrialization, Africa Land Rights in Kenya, and the Kakamega Gold Rush, 1930–1952. By Priscilla M. Shilaro. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2008. Priscilla Shilaro’s book is a welcome contribution to a recent revitalization of his…
Rape in the Courts of Gusiiland, Kenya, 1940s-1960s
This article examines the history of rape prosecutions in the African courts of Gusiiland, Kenya, from the 1940s through the first years of independence. Drawing on transcripts from African courts, it demonstrates that Gusii court elders were quite sympathetic to women who lodged rape claims. Elders handed down stiff punishments to rapists, were willing to entertain a wide definition of "indecent assault," and did not require the extensive eviden…
Bridewealth and Female Consent
From the early 1940s Gusiiland (Kenya) underwent a series of transformations that pushed bridewealth to unheralded levels. As a result, many young couples could not afford a proper marriage and eloped. Some fathers forced their daughters into marriages with men wealthy enough to give cattle; many of these women ran off instead with more desirable men. In the hundreds of resulting court cases, Gusii debated the relative weight to be given to bride…
Politics of the Womb
Going Their Separate Ways
Patronage, Millennialism and the Serpent God Mumbo in South-West Kenya, 1912-34
This article traces the history of Mumboism, a millennial cult of south-west Kenya, 1912–34. Mumbo, the serpent god of Lake Victoria, promised to eject whites and chiefs from the region and usher in a period of prosperity. Mumboism gained followers, it is argued, because it mixed older ideas of patron–client relations with newer ideas of omnipotent, unseen beings, introduced by Europeans as Government and God. Mumbo challenged chiefs and missiona…
Changing Traditions to Meet Current Altering Conditions’
If the aim of British colonizers, Frederick Lugard wrote, was to civilize Africans ‘and to devote thought to those matters which...most intimately affect their daily life and happiness, there are few of greater importance than the constitution of native courts’. Moreover, he argued that only from native courts employing customary law was it ‘possible to create rudiments of law and order, to inculcate a sense of responsibility, and evolve among a …
Changing Traditions to Meet Current Altering Conditions’
If the aim of British colonizers, Frederick Lugard wrote, was to civilize Africans ‘and to devote thought to those matters which...most intimately affect their daily life and happiness, there are few of greater importance than the constitution of native courts’. Moreover, he argued that only from native courts employing customary law was it ‘possible to create rudiments of law and order, to inculcate a sense of responsibility, and evolve among a …
Bridewealth and Female Consent
From the early 1940s Gusiiland (Kenya) underwent a series of transformations that pushed bridewealth to unheralded levels. As a result, many young couples could not afford a proper marriage and eloped. Some fathers forced their daughters into marriages with men wealthy enough to give cattle; many of these women ran off instead with more desirable men. In the hundreds of resulting court cases, Gusii debated the relative weight to be given to bride…
Patronage, Millennialism and the Serpent God Mumbo in South-West Kenya, 1912-34
This article traces the history of Mumboism, a millennial cult of south-west Kenya, 1912–34. Mumbo, the serpent god of Lake Victoria, promised to eject whites and chiefs from the region and usher in a period of prosperity. Mumboism gained followers, it is argued, because it mixed older ideas of patron–client relations with newer ideas of omnipotent, unseen beings, introduced by Europeans as Government and God. Mumbo challenged chiefs and missiona…
The Souls of White Folk
Kenya's white settlers have been alternately celebrated and condemned, painted as romantic pioneers or hedonistic bed-hoppers or crude racists. The souls of white folk examines settlers not as caricatures, but as people inhabiting a unique historical moment. It takes seriously - though not uncritically - what settlers said, how they viewed themselves and their world. It argues that the settler soul was composed of a series of interlaced ideas: se…
Cruelty and Empathy, Animals and Race, in Colonial Kenya
Journal Article Cruelty and Empathy, Animals and Race, in Colonial Kenya Get access Brett L. Shadle Brett L. Shadle [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 45, Issue 4, Summer 2012, Pages 1097–1116, https://doi.org/10.1093/jsh/shr152 Published: 01 June 2012
Reluctant Humanitarians
Following the Italian invasion of Ethiopia in 1935, several hundred Eritrean deserters from the Italian army and several thousand Ethiopian officials, soldiers, and civilians fled to Kenya. British officials on the border, in Nairobi, and in London found themselves deeply conflicted over how to deal with these refugees. Sheltering refugees was costly, and it antagonised the Italians whose friendship (or at least neutrality) the British hoped to w…
White settlers and the law in early colonial Kenya
This article examines settler attitudes toward the law and the legal system in early colonial Kenya. Settlers believed that English law was the culmination of centuries of evolution and was unsurpassed for its justice and logic. Nonetheless, they insisted English law and legal procedure were supremely ill-suited for the African context. When courts released Africans on "technicalities" it only encouraged more crime; insufficient punishments did t…
Rape in the Courts of Gusiiland, Kenya, 1940s-1960s
This article examines the history of rape prosecutions in the African courts of Gusiiland, Kenya, from the 1940s through the first years of independence. Drawing on transcripts from African courts, it demonstrates that Gusii court elders were quite sympathetic to women who lodged rape claims. Elders handed down stiff punishments to rapists, were willing to entertain a wide definition of "indecent assault," and did not require the extensive eviden…
Going Their Separate Ways
Changing Traditions to Meet Current Altering Conditions’
If the aim of British colonizers, Frederick Lugard wrote, was to civilize Africans ‘and to devote thought to those matters which...most intimately affect their daily life and happiness, there are few of greater importance than the constitution of native courts’. Moreover, he argued that only from native courts employing customary law was it ‘possible to create rudiments of law and order, to inculcate a sense of responsibility, and evolve among a …
Patronage, Millennialism and the Serpent God Mumbo in South-West Kenya, 1912-34
This article traces the history of Mumboism, a millennial cult of south-west Kenya, 1912–34. Mumbo, the serpent god of Lake Victoria, promised to eject whites and chiefs from the region and usher in a period of prosperity. Mumboism gained followers, it is argued, because it mixed older ideas of patron–client relations with newer ideas of omnipotent, unseen beings, introduced by Europeans as Government and God. Mumbo challenged chiefs and missiona…
Bridewealth and Female Consent
From the early 1940s Gusiiland (Kenya) underwent a series of transformations that pushed bridewealth to unheralded levels. As a result, many young couples could not afford a proper marriage and eloped. Some fathers forced their daughters into marriages with men wealthy enough to give cattle; many of these women ran off instead with more desirable men. In the hundreds of resulting court cases, Gusii debated the relative weight to be given to bride…
Politics of the Womb
Going Their Separate Ways
A Failed Eldorado
Reviewed by: A Failed Eldorado: Colonial Capitalism, Rural Industrialization, Africa Land Rights in Kenya, and the Kakamega Gold Rush, 1930–1952 Brett L. Shadle A Failed Eldorado: Colonial Capitalism, Rural Industrialization, Africa Land Rights in Kenya, and the Kakamega Gold Rush, 1930–1952. By Priscilla M. Shilaro. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2008. Priscilla Shilaro’s book is a welcome contribution to a recent revitalization of his…
Rape in the Courts of Gusiiland, Kenya, 1940s-1960s
This article examines the history of rape prosecutions in the African courts of Gusiiland, Kenya, from the 1940s through the first years of independence. Drawing on transcripts from African courts, it demonstrates that Gusii court elders were quite sympathetic to women who lodged rape claims. Elders handed down stiff punishments to rapists, were willing to entertain a wide definition of "indecent assault," and did not require the extensive eviden…
White settlers and the law in early colonial Kenya
This article examines settler attitudes toward the law and the legal system in early colonial Kenya. Settlers believed that English law was the culmination of centuries of evolution and was unsurpassed for its justice and logic. Nonetheless, they insisted English law and legal procedure were supremely ill-suited for the African context. When courts released Africans on "technicalities" it only encouraged more crime; insufficient punishments did t…
Smith, James Howard.— Bewitching Development
Reading Smith’s book brought to mind two recurrent episodes in my own experiences researching and teaching African studies.As a graduate student in the mid-1990s I was familiar with the critiques of “development”—it was teleological, it established the West as the benchmark to which the rest of the world should strive, the development project tended to be top-down and funneled aid money back to donor nations.Yet when I arrived in Kenya to carry o…
Cruelty and Empathy, Animals and Race, in Colonial Kenya
Journal Article Cruelty and Empathy, Animals and Race, in Colonial Kenya Get access Brett L. Shadle Brett L. Shadle [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 45, Issue 4, Summer 2012, Pages 1097–1116, https://doi.org/10.1093/jsh/shr152 Published: 01 June 2012
A Time There Was
The Souls of White Folk
Kenya’s white settlers have long captivated observers. They are alternately celebrated and condemned, painted as romantic pioneers or hedonistic bed-hoppers or crude racists. If we wish to better understand Kenya’s tortured history, however, we must examine settlers not as caricatures, but as people inhabiting a unique historical moment. We must ask, what animated their lives? What comforted them and what unnerved them, to whom did they direct lo…
The Souls of White Folk
Kenya's white settlers have been alternately celebrated and condemned, painted as romantic pioneers or hedonistic bed-hoppers or crude racists. The souls of white folk examines settlers not as caricatures, but as people inhabiting a unique historical moment. It takes seriously - though not uncritically - what settlers said, how they viewed themselves and their world. It argues that the settler soul was composed of a series of interlaced ideas: se…
Madness and marginality
Rachel Jean-Baptiste. Conjugal Rights
Journal Article Rachel Jean-Baptiste. Conjugal Rights: Marriage, Sexuality, and Urban Life in Colonial Libreville, Gabon. Get access Rachel Jean-Baptiste. Conjugal Rights: Marriage, Sexuality, and Urban Life in Colonial Libreville, Gabon. (New African Histories.) Athens: Ohio University Press, 2014. Pp. xiii, 300. Cloth $80.00, paper $32.95. Brett Shadle Brett Shadle Virginia Tech [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Aca…
Reluctant Humanitarians
Following the Italian invasion of Ethiopia in 1935, several hundred Eritrean deserters from the Italian army and several thousand Ethiopian officials, soldiers, and civilians fled to Kenya. British officials on the border, in Nairobi, and in London found themselves deeply conflicted over how to deal with these refugees. Sheltering refugees was costly, and it antagonised the Italians whose friendship (or at least neutrality) the British hoped to w…
The “problem” of the urban refugee
This article examines a short era in which the category of the African “urban refugee” garnered special attention from governments and non-governmental organizations. In the late 1960s, those dealing with refugee issues began to perceive urban refugees as posing a unique set of problems, ones that required intervention by specialized professionals. This shift in thinking came to fruition with the Joint Refugee Services of Kenya (JRSK). For the fi…
Animality and Colonial Subjecthood in Africa
As I was preparing to write this review, I happened to pull from my shelf V. S. Naipaul's The Masques of Africa (2010), in which the author devotes a few paragraphs to discussing the place of animals in Nigeria. Naipaul reproduces the enduring stereotypes of white people as lovers and protectors of animals and of Africans as cruel and inhumane. Save one Nigerian Naipual met, only white people in the country (he claims) were concerned about allevi…
Kakuma Is Not Swahili for “Nowhere”
This article examines the widely used but false claim that the word Kakuma, which is the site of a large refugee camp, means “nowhere” in Swahili. It traces the origin and spread of this false translation and how Kakuma has in fact long been “somewhere” for the Turkana people. “Nowhere” makes sense only by comparing Kakuma to “somewhere,” which in turn draws on long-standing hierarchies of traditional/modern or underdeveloped/developed. Thus, thr…
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