Fiona Mackenzie
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3586074 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Fiona Mackenzie |
| NOMBRES | Fiona |
| APELLIDO | Mackenzie |
| FIRMA | MACKENZIE F |
| AFILIACIONES | Carleton University |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 27 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 228 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 27 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1986 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2020 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Political Ecology Across Spaces, Scales, and Social Groups
Environmental issues have become increasingly prominent in local struggles, national debates, and international policies. In response, scholars are paying more attention to conventional politics and to more broadly defined relations of power and difference in the interactions between human groups and their biophysical environments. Such issues are at the heart of the relatively new interdisciplinary field of political ecology, forged at the inter…
“A Lot of People Are Struggling Privately. They Don’t Know Where to Go or They’re Not Sure of What to Do”
This qualitative study explored frontline service providers' perceptions of the nature of food insecurity in Scotland in 2015 to inform national policy and the provision of locally-based support for 'at risk' groups. A country-wide in-depth interview study was undertaken with informants from 25 health, social care, and third sector organisations. The study investigated informants' perspectives associated with how food insecurity was manifesting i…
Places of Possibility
A common claim
Working with Foucault’s and Butler’s theorisation of the norm and the political possibilities that may be created when norms are disrupted and Foucault’s and Gibson-Graham’s work on ethics and subjectivities, I focus in this paper on practices of property and nature when land in the Outer Hebrides is brought into community ownership. I argue that, while it is early to assess new political possibilities, there is sufficient evidence to show how a …
A common claim
Working with Foucault’s and Butler’s theorisation of the norm and the political possibilities that may be created when norms are disrupted and Foucault’s and Gibson-Graham’s work on ethics and subjectivities, I focus in this paper on practices of property and nature when land in the Outer Hebrides is brought into community ownership. I argue that, while it is early to assess new political possibilities, there is sufficient evidence to show how a …
Cultural geographies in practice
Local Organization
The objective in this paper is to link changes in productive/reproductive relations between women and men to changes in mode of local organization. It is argued that women's ability to organize local, non-kin networks at the extrahousehold level in Murang'a District, Kenya has, through time, served as a countertension to male solidarity. Evidence is presented to indicate how women have formed effective social bonds on the basis of spatial contigu…
Innovation in natural resource management. The role of property rights and collective action in developing countries
In Tribute to Suzanne Mackenzie
Land, ecology, and resistance in Kenya, 1880-1952
Agrarian structure and resource control - the Ng'undu system circa 1880 discourse, custom and land, 1889-1934 the construction of colonial agricultural knowledge, Kenya 1912-1952 betterment I - agricultural production, Murang's district 1905-1952 betterment II - the campaign to save soil, Murang's district 1930-1932 land, labour and environment
Reconceptualising local community
Economic ‘development’ driven by global economic forces produces specific expressions of ‘community’ in places where large new economic projects are to be located. This paper draws on contemporary geopolitical literature to theorise community identity as partly formulated in response to external ‘threats’. A comparative study of community mobilisation in response to proposals to locate coastal superquarries on the Isle of Harris, Outer Hebrides, …
Conflicting Claims to Custom
In antithesis to legislation on land tenure introduced through the Land Registration Act, 1959, premised on the notion in English common law that the right to allocate land was equivalent to exclusive ownership, “ownership” under customary tenure in Kenya was “essentially heterogeneous and divisible”. People differentiated by age, gender and wealth had bundles of rights defined, in Okoth-Ogendo's words, by “the status differentia which a particul…
A Farm Is Like a Child Who Cannot Be Left Unguarded’
This article examines the relationship between women and men and their environment in an area of intensively farmed smallholdings in Kenya. The case study demonstrates how their relationship is constantly renegotiated through the contestation of rights to land and labour in a context of growing economic stress. It is argued that the sustainable management of the resource base, the soil, is contingent on both the level of wealth or poverty of the …
Development from within
Is where i sit, where i stand? The Ontario farm women's network, politics and difference
Black Mountain
Exploring the connections
Extension Alternatives in Tropical Africa
Political Economy of the Environment, Gender, and Resistance under Colonialism
(1991). Political Economy of the Environment, Gender, and Resistance under Colonialism: Murang'a District, Kenya, 1910–1950. Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines: Vol. 25, Kenya, pp. 226-256
Gender and land rights in Murang'a district, Kenya
Conceptualising rights to land in a framework of legal pluralism, this article explores the historical nature of struggles over land by women and men in a situation of increasing land scarcity. It is argued that the manipulation of customary law and state law is instrumental in increasing gender and, more generally, social differentiation
Military Radicalism and African State Consolidation A Review Article
Land and territory
Introduction: 'Land Reform' and Rural SecurityThe objective of this paper is to examine the nature of the interface between two systems of land tenure in an area of smallholdings, Murang'a District, Central Province, Kenya. The first, theng'undusystem, evolved in the fertile, dissected plateau area east of the Nyandarua Range since the Kikuyu migrated there in the early seventeenth century (Muriuki, 1974: 62-82; Government of Kenya, 1929: 6); the…
D.R.F. Taylor
"D.R.F. Taylor." Canadian Journal of African Studies/La Revue canadienne des études africaines, 21(3), p. 314
District Focus as a Strategy for Rural Development in Kenya
Kenya has followed a strongly centralized development planning strategy since Independence in 1963. In 1983 a new approach called District Focus was introduced. This paper considers the potential of that approach to bring about meaningful change to the rural population using a case study from Murang' a District. Inequalities between socioeconomic strata as well as within the household have increased since 1963 and it is argued that post-independe…
Local Initiatives and National Policy
Fiona MacKenzie, Local Initiatives and National Policy: Gender and Agricultural Change in Murang'a District, Kenya, Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue Canadienne des Études Africaines, Vol. 20, No. 3 (1986), pp. 377-401
Political Ecology Across Spaces, Scales, and Social Groups
Environmental issues have become increasingly prominent in local struggles, national debates, and international policies. In response, scholars are paying more attention to conventional politics and to more broadly defined relations of power and difference in the interactions between human groups and their biophysical environments. Such issues are at the heart of the relatively new interdisciplinary field of political ecology, forged at the inter…
Reconceptualising local community
Economic ‘development’ driven by global economic forces produces specific expressions of ‘community’ in places where large new economic projects are to be located. This paper draws on contemporary geopolitical literature to theorise community identity as partly formulated in response to external ‘threats’. A comparative study of community mobilisation in response to proposals to locate coastal superquarries on the Isle of Harris, Outer Hebrides, …
Gender and land rights in Murang'a district, Kenya
Conceptualising rights to land in a framework of legal pluralism, this article explores the historical nature of struggles over land by women and men in a situation of increasing land scarcity. It is argued that the manipulation of customary law and state law is instrumental in increasing gender and, more generally, social differentiation
Land and territory
Introduction: 'Land Reform' and Rural SecurityThe objective of this paper is to examine the nature of the interface between two systems of land tenure in an area of smallholdings, Murang'a District, Central Province, Kenya. The first, theng'undusystem, evolved in the fertile, dissected plateau area east of the Nyandarua Range since the Kikuyu migrated there in the early seventeenth century (Muriuki, 1974: 62-82; Government of Kenya, 1929: 6); the…
Is where i sit, where i stand? The Ontario farm women's network, politics and difference
Places of Possibility
Exploring the connections
A common claim
Working with Foucault’s and Butler’s theorisation of the norm and the political possibilities that may be created when norms are disrupted and Foucault’s and Gibson-Graham’s work on ethics and subjectivities, I focus in this paper on practices of property and nature when land in the Outer Hebrides is brought into community ownership. I argue that, while it is early to assess new political possibilities, there is sufficient evidence to show how a …
Political Economy of the Environment, Gender, and Resistance under Colonialism
(1991). Political Economy of the Environment, Gender, and Resistance under Colonialism: Murang'a District, Kenya, 1910–1950. Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines: Vol. 25, Kenya, pp. 226-256
Cultural geographies in practice
Local Organization
The objective in this paper is to link changes in productive/reproductive relations between women and men to changes in mode of local organization. It is argued that women's ability to organize local, non-kin networks at the extrahousehold level in Murang'a District, Kenya has, through time, served as a countertension to male solidarity. Evidence is presented to indicate how women have formed effective social bonds on the basis of spatial contigu…
Innovation in natural resource management. The role of property rights and collective action in developing countries
In Tribute to Suzanne Mackenzie
A Farm Is Like a Child Who Cannot Be Left Unguarded’
This article examines the relationship between women and men and their environment in an area of intensively farmed smallholdings in Kenya. The case study demonstrates how their relationship is constantly renegotiated through the contestation of rights to land and labour in a context of growing economic stress. It is argued that the sustainable management of the resource base, the soil, is contingent on both the level of wealth or poverty of the …
Local Initiatives and National Policy
(1986). Local Initiatives and National Policy: Gender and Agricultural Change in Murang'a District, Kenya. Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines: Vol. 20, No. 3, pp. 377-401
D.R.F. Taylor
"D.R.F. Taylor." Canadian Journal of African Studies/La Revue canadienne des études africaines, 21(3), p. 314
District Focus as a Strategy for Rural Development in Kenya
Kenya has followed a strongly centralized development planning strategy since Independence in 1963. In 1983 a new approach called District Focus was introduced. This paper considers the potential of that approach to bring about meaningful change to the rural population using a case study from Murang' a District. Inequalities between socioeconomic strata as well as within the household have increased since 1963 and it is argued that post-independe…
Wood, Energy and Households
Many developing countries have been hard hit by the double crisis of threatened fuelwood supply and the increasing burden of oil imports. During the last decade energy provision has become
Military Radicalism and African State Consolidation A Review Article
Land and territory
Introduction: 'Land Reform' and Rural SecurityThe objective of this paper is to examine the nature of the interface between two systems of land tenure in an area of smallholdings, Murang'a District, Central Province, Kenya. The first, theng'undusystem, evolved in the fertile, dissected plateau area east of the Nyandarua Range since the Kikuyu migrated there in the early seventeenth century (Muriuki, 1974: 62-82; Government of Kenya, 1929: 6); the…
Gender and land rights in Murang'a district, Kenya
Conceptualising rights to land in a framework of legal pluralism, this article explores the historical nature of struggles over land by women and men in a situation of increasing land scarcity. It is argued that the manipulation of customary law and state law is instrumental in increasing gender and, more generally, social differentiation
Political Economy of the Environment, Gender, and Resistance under Colonialism
(1991). Political Economy of the Environment, Gender, and Resistance under Colonialism: Murang'a District, Kenya, 1910–1950. Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines: Vol. 25, Kenya, pp. 226-256
Exploring the connections
Extension Alternatives in Tropical Africa
Is where i sit, where i stand? The Ontario farm women's network, politics and difference
Black Mountain
A Farm Is Like a Child Who Cannot Be Left Unguarded’
This article examines the relationship between women and men and their environment in an area of intensively farmed smallholdings in Kenya. The case study demonstrates how their relationship is constantly renegotiated through the contestation of rights to land and labour in a context of growing economic stress. It is argued that the sustainable management of the resource base, the soil, is contingent on both the level of wealth or poverty of the …
Development from within
Conflicting Claims to Custom
In antithesis to legislation on land tenure introduced through the Land Registration Act, 1959, premised on the notion in English common law that the right to allocate land was equivalent to exclusive ownership, “ownership” under customary tenure in Kenya was “essentially heterogeneous and divisible”. People differentiated by age, gender and wealth had bundles of rights defined, in Okoth-Ogendo's words, by “the status differentia which a particul…
Reconceptualising local community
Economic ‘development’ driven by global economic forces produces specific expressions of ‘community’ in places where large new economic projects are to be located. This paper draws on contemporary geopolitical literature to theorise community identity as partly formulated in response to external ‘threats’. A comparative study of community mobilisation in response to proposals to locate coastal superquarries on the Isle of Harris, Outer Hebrides, …
Land, ecology, and resistance in Kenya, 1880-1952
Agrarian structure and resource control - the Ng'undu system circa 1880 discourse, custom and land, 1889-1934 the construction of colonial agricultural knowledge, Kenya 1912-1952 betterment I - agricultural production, Murang's district 1905-1952 betterment II - the campaign to save soil, Murang's district 1930-1932 land, labour and environment
In Tribute to Suzanne Mackenzie
Innovation in natural resource management. The role of property rights and collective action in developing countries
Local Organization
The objective in this paper is to link changes in productive/reproductive relations between women and men to changes in mode of local organization. It is argued that women's ability to organize local, non-kin networks at the extrahousehold level in Murang'a District, Kenya has, through time, served as a countertension to male solidarity. Evidence is presented to indicate how women have formed effective social bonds on the basis of spatial contigu…
Cultural geographies in practice
A common claim
Working with Foucault’s and Butler’s theorisation of the norm and the political possibilities that may be created when norms are disrupted and Foucault’s and Gibson-Graham’s work on ethics and subjectivities, I focus in this paper on practices of property and nature when land in the Outer Hebrides is brought into community ownership. I argue that, while it is early to assess new political possibilities, there is sufficient evidence to show how a …
A common claim
Working with Foucault’s and Butler’s theorisation of the norm and the political possibilities that may be created when norms are disrupted and Foucault’s and Gibson-Graham’s work on ethics and subjectivities, I focus in this paper on practices of property and nature when land in the Outer Hebrides is brought into community ownership. I argue that, while it is early to assess new political possibilities, there is sufficient evidence to show how a …
Places of Possibility
“A Lot of People Are Struggling Privately. They Don’t Know Where to Go or They’re Not Sure of What to Do”
This qualitative study explored frontline service providers' perceptions of the nature of food insecurity in Scotland in 2015 to inform national policy and the provision of locally-based support for 'at risk' groups. A country-wide in-depth interview study was undertaken with informants from 25 health, social care, and third sector organisations. The study investigated informants' perspectives associated with how food insecurity was manifesting i…
Political science (20 obras) · Geography (16 obras) · Economics (13 obras) · Sociology (13 obras) · Law (9 obras) · Politics (8 obras) · Agriculture (7 obras) · Business (7 obras) · Computer Science (7 obras) · Land Rights and Reforms (7 obras)