Julie Macarthur
Biographic Data
| ID | 125194 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Julie Macarthur |
| GIVEN NAMES | Julie |
| FAMILY NAME | Macarthur |
| SIGNATURE | MACARTHUR J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9782-5070 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 78 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2027 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Toward a Canadian agenda for sustainability transition research
Sustainability transitions research has expanded well beyond its original empirical settings, yet questions remain about how transition perspectives can be meaningfully translated across political economies with distinctive configurations of institutional, geographic, environmental, and historical characteristics. In Canada, these questions are especially salient, as political-economic particularities both complicate the application of transition…
Equity, diversity and inclusion promises, exclusive practices? How to move towards effective and just energy transitions
Equitable, diverse and inclusive action in a climate emergency is not optional – it is an imperative. Despite the growing rhetoric for inclusive energy systems transformations, many such promises are often empty signifiers and lack substantive action. For energy transitions to be effective and sustainable, they must include, prioritize, and benefit diverse groups, encompassing marginalized communities, underrepresented stakeholders and those disp…
A Country of Defiance: Mapping the Casamance in Senegal
Indigenous Mapping and Mobile Spaces: The Sites and Sounds of Somali Encounters with Imperial Cartography in Eastern Africa
The state of eco-social work training in Canada: Transformative praxis for climate constrained futures
As climate disasters increase, social workers will increasingly be called upon to help communities with the related dislocations, eco-anxieties, and social transformations. This article explores the extent to which Canadian social work schools are preparing social workers to advance socio-ecological justice. It examines the coursework in these programmes as new standards come into effect in 2023. We consider radical, eco-social, feminist and Indi…
Imagining imperial frontiers: Photography-as-cartography in the mapping of eastern Africa
Thinking East African: Debating Federation and Regionalism, 1960–1977
Canada's Green New Deal: Forging the socio-political foundations of climate resilient infrastructure
A global movement is underway to harness the power of coordinated state policy to address the significant and interrelated challenges of environmental degradation, climate change, poverty, and energy insecurity. In May 2019 a grassroots coalition comprising a range of civil society groups—scientists, labour unions, Indigenous peoples, and youth—launched the Pact for a Green New Deal (PGND) in Canada, with more than 150 town hall meetings across t…
Explaining inclusivity in energy transitions: Local and community energy in Aotearoa New Zealand
© 2020 The Authors International literature on citizen, local and community energy (LCE) has grown exponentially but has focussed on European and North American context. This paper contributes to understanding inclusivity in country-specific energy transition pathways, setting out an empirical analysis of grassroots energy innovation practices in a country that has to date followed an incumbent-led energy transition pathway – Aotearoa (New Zealan…
Prosecuting a Prophet: Justice, Psychiatry, and Rebellion in Colonial Kenya
In Kenya, the prophecies of the late Elijah Masinde, leader of the anti-colonial religious revival Dini ya Msambwa, remain contested. MacArthur explores the religious innovations, intellectual work, and moral debates for the first time through Masinde's own words. During his 1948 deportation trial, while the prosecution sought to remake Masinde from prophetic madman into calculating criminal, Masinde used the courtroom to challenge the pathologiz…
Wanuri Kahiu, director. Rafiki. 2018. 82 minutes. English and Swahili (with English subtitles). Kenya/South Africa/France/Lebanon/Norway/Netherlands/Germany/USA. Big World Cinema/Afrobubblegum/MPM Fil…
Wanuri Kahiu, director. Rafiki. 2018. 82 minutes. English and Swahili (with English subtitles). Kenya/South Africa/France/Lebanon/Norway/Netherlands/Germany/USA. Big World Cinema/Afrobubblegum/MPM Films/Schortcut Films/Ape&Bjørn/Rinkel Film/Razor Film Production GmbH/Tango Productions. - Volume 62 Issue 2
K eren W eitzberg . We Do Not Have Borders: Greater Somalia and the Predicaments of Belonging in Kenya
In celebrated Somali poet Cali Sugulle’s play Indhasarcaad (1963), a young girl named Enefdhii becomes the physical embodiment of the Northern Frontier District of Kenya: “As long as within our own land / There are dividing frontier fences / And we remain incomplete, / Oh Death, if I reject you, / Oh Ancestry, if I claim you, / Oh Prosperity, if I follow your footprints, / Oh Satiety, if I seek you . . .” (translation from B. W. Andrzejewski, “Mo…
Decolonizing Sovereignty: States of Exception along the Kenya-Somali Frontier
Mbithi Masya. Kati Kati. 2016. 75 minutes. English and Swahili (with English subtitles). Kenya/Germany. One Fine Day Films. No price reported
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Populist resistance and alternative transitions: Indigenous ownership of energy infrastructure in Aotearoa New Zealand
Citizenship, Belonging, and Political Community in Africa: Dialogues between Past and Present
Africa, it is often said, is suffering from a crisis of citizenship. At the heart of the contemporary debates this apparent crisis has provoked lie dynamic relations between the present and the past, between political theory and political practice, and between legal categories and lived experience. Yet studies of citizenship in Africa have often tended to foreshorten historical time and privilege the present at the expense of the deeper past.\nCi…
Cartography and the Political Imagination: Mapping Community in Colonial Kenya
Contemporary Cinema of Africa and the Diaspora
What does "Africa Watch"? Anjali Prabhu begins her study of contemporary African and African diasporic cinema with a bold proposition: to watch films through an "Africanized perspective." (1) Questions of decolonizing the "gaze," spectatorship, and popular viewership have long preoccupied discussions of African cinema. Prabhu's intention, however, is not to offer a historically situated and experiential account of spectatorship in the African con…
Cartography and the Political Imagination: Mapping Community in Colonial Kenya
Ethnicity and Empire in Kenya: Loyalty and Martial Race among the Kamba c. 1800 to the Present
The field of ethnic histories in Kenya is a crowded one. Scholars working in this field have made major historiographical contributions to the study of identity, moral economy, patriotic work, and ...
The Life and Times of General China: Mau Mau and the End of Empire in Kenya
The Life and Times of General China: Mau Mau and the End of Empire in Kenya." Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines, 50(2), pp. 330–331
Insurgency and Counterinsurgency in Kenya: A Social History of the Shifta Conflict, c. 1963-1968
Insurgency and Counterinsurgency in Kenya: A Social History of the Shifta Conflict, c. 1963–1968." Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines, 50(2), pp. 325–326
Challenging public engagement: Participation, deliberation and power in renewable energy policy
When did the Luyia (or any other group) become a tribe
In 1977, John Lonsdale published a review of William R. Ochieng's study APre-Colonial History of the Gusii of Western Kenya in the Kenya Historical Review. Entitled “When did the Gusii (or any other group) become a ‘Tribe’?”, the ten-page article was less a book review and more a treatise on the practice of history in Africa. Taking Lonsdale's question as a point of inspiration, this article provides a critical rethinking of the theories of “trib…
The Making and Unmaking of African Languages: Oral Communities and Competitive Linguistic Work in Western Kenya
This article examines the history of efforts to create a standard written language in western Kenya. In the 1940s, the Luyia Language Committee worked to standardise one Luyia language out of a set of diverse, distinct, and yet mutually intelligible linguistic cultures. While missionaries worked to imbue translations with ideals of Christian discipline, domestic virtue, and civilisation, local cultural entrepreneurs took up linguistic work to deb…
Explaining inclusivity in energy transitions: Local and community energy in Aotearoa New Zealand
© 2020 The Authors International literature on citizen, local and community energy (LCE) has grown exponentially but has focussed on European and North American context. This paper contributes to understanding inclusivity in country-specific energy transition pathways, setting out an empirical analysis of grassroots energy innovation practices in a country that has to date followed an incumbent-led energy transition pathway – Aotearoa (New Zealan…
How the West was Won: Regional Politics and Prophetic Promises in the 2007 Kenya Elections
In the 2007 Kenya elections, the violent clashes and allegations of electoral fraud that engulfed the country served to overshadow, and thus mask, the underlying causes of the opposition and disillusionment that had produced such a closely contested presidential election. The success of the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) in challenging the incumbent government, despite the outcome, rested in its ability to mobilise support across regional and e…
Challenging public engagement: Participation, deliberation and power in renewable energy policy
When did the Luyia (or any other group) become a tribe
In 1977, John Lonsdale published a review of William R. Ochieng's study APre-Colonial History of the Gusii of Western Kenya in the Kenya Historical Review. Entitled “When did the Gusii (or any other group) become a ‘Tribe’?”, the ten-page article was less a book review and more a treatise on the practice of history in Africa. Taking Lonsdale's question as a point of inspiration, this article provides a critical rethinking of the theories of “trib…
Canada's Green New Deal: Forging the socio-political foundations of climate resilient infrastructure
A global movement is underway to harness the power of coordinated state policy to address the significant and interrelated challenges of environmental degradation, climate change, poverty, and energy insecurity. In May 2019 a grassroots coalition comprising a range of civil society groups—scientists, labour unions, Indigenous peoples, and youth—launched the Pact for a Green New Deal (PGND) in Canada, with more than 150 town hall meetings across t…
Populist resistance and alternative transitions: Indigenous ownership of energy infrastructure in Aotearoa New Zealand
Equity, diversity and inclusion promises, exclusive practices? How to move towards effective and just energy transitions
Equitable, diverse and inclusive action in a climate emergency is not optional – it is an imperative. Despite the growing rhetoric for inclusive energy systems transformations, many such promises are often empty signifiers and lack substantive action. For energy transitions to be effective and sustainable, they must include, prioritize, and benefit diverse groups, encompassing marginalized communities, underrepresented stakeholders and those disp…
Insurgency and Counterinsurgency in Kenya: A Social History of the Shifta Conflict, c. 1963-1968
Insurgency and Counterinsurgency in Kenya: A Social History of the Shifta Conflict, c. 1963–1968." Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines, 50(2), pp. 325–326
The Making and Unmaking of African Languages: Oral Communities and Competitive Linguistic Work in Western Kenya
This article examines the history of efforts to create a standard written language in western Kenya. In the 1940s, the Luyia Language Committee worked to standardise one Luyia language out of a set of diverse, distinct, and yet mutually intelligible linguistic cultures. While missionaries worked to imbue translations with ideals of Christian discipline, domestic virtue, and civilisation, local cultural entrepreneurs took up linguistic work to deb…
Mortgaging Irish Independence: From Financial Crisis to Socialist Resistance
A specter is haunting Ireland—the specter of James Connolly.... Connolly was shot to death by a British firing squad for his role in Ireland's 1916 rising for home rule. Celebrated as a hero of Irish independence by Irish political parties of both left and right, his socialism is all too conveniently overlooked. The Irish struggle is one that speaks to the challenges of independence, sovereignty, and democratic freedom, both then and now, for peo…
The state of eco-social work training in Canada: Transformative praxis for climate constrained futures
As climate disasters increase, social workers will increasingly be called upon to help communities with the related dislocations, eco-anxieties, and social transformations. This article explores the extent to which Canadian social work schools are preparing social workers to advance socio-ecological justice. It examines the coursework in these programmes as new standards come into effect in 2023. We consider radical, eco-social, feminist and Indi…
Imagining imperial frontiers: Photography-as-cartography in the mapping of eastern Africa
Prosecuting a Prophet: Justice, Psychiatry, and Rebellion in Colonial Kenya
In Kenya, the prophecies of the late Elijah Masinde, leader of the anti-colonial religious revival Dini ya Msambwa, remain contested. MacArthur explores the religious innovations, intellectual work, and moral debates for the first time through Masinde's own words. During his 1948 deportation trial, while the prosecution sought to remake Masinde from prophetic madman into calculating criminal, Masinde used the courtroom to challenge the pathologiz…
Contemporary Cinema of Africa and the Diaspora
What does "Africa Watch"? Anjali Prabhu begins her study of contemporary African and African diasporic cinema with a bold proposition: to watch films through an "Africanized perspective." (1) Questions of decolonizing the "gaze," spectatorship, and popular viewership have long preoccupied discussions of African cinema. Prabhu's intention, however, is not to offer a historically situated and experiential account of spectatorship in the African con…
Ethnicity and Empire in Kenya: Loyalty and Martial Race among the Kamba c. 1800 to the Present
The field of ethnic histories in Kenya is a crowded one. Scholars working in this field have made major historiographical contributions to the study of identity, moral economy, patriotic work, and ...
A Responsibility to Rethink: Challenging Paradigms in Human Security
As Victor Hugo once wrote, not even armies can withstand an idea whose time has come. In the case of human security he may very well be right, but the emergence of differing conceptions of it has affected the trajectory of its development as an alternative security paradigm. security as a concept has immense appeal for scholars and practitioners interested in the creation of a more just world order. This appeal is derived from a combina- tion of …
How the West was Won: Regional Politics and Prophetic Promises in the 2007 Kenya Elections
In the 2007 Kenya elections, the violent clashes and allegations of electoral fraud that engulfed the country served to overshadow, and thus mask, the underlying causes of the opposition and disillusionment that had produced such a closely contested presidential election. The success of the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) in challenging the incumbent government, despite the outcome, rested in its ability to mobilise support across regional and e…
Mortgaging Irish Independence: From Financial Crisis to Socialist Resistance
A specter is haunting Ireland—the specter of James Connolly.... Connolly was shot to death by a British firing squad for his role in Ireland's 1916 rising for home rule. Celebrated as a hero of Irish independence by Irish political parties of both left and right, his socialism is all too conveniently overlooked. The Irish struggle is one that speaks to the challenges of independence, sovereignty, and democratic freedom, both then and now, for peo…
The Making and Unmaking of African Languages: Oral Communities and Competitive Linguistic Work in Western Kenya
This article examines the history of efforts to create a standard written language in western Kenya. In the 1940s, the Luyia Language Committee worked to standardise one Luyia language out of a set of diverse, distinct, and yet mutually intelligible linguistic cultures. While missionaries worked to imbue translations with ideals of Christian discipline, domestic virtue, and civilisation, local cultural entrepreneurs took up linguistic work to deb…
When did the Luyia (or any other group) become a tribe
In 1977, John Lonsdale published a review of William R. Ochieng's study APre-Colonial History of the Gusii of Western Kenya in the Kenya Historical Review. Entitled “When did the Gusii (or any other group) become a ‘Tribe’?”, the ten-page article was less a book review and more a treatise on the practice of history in Africa. Taking Lonsdale's question as a point of inspiration, this article provides a critical rethinking of the theories of “trib…
Challenging public engagement: Participation, deliberation and power in renewable energy policy
Cartography and the Political Imagination: Mapping Community in Colonial Kenya
Contemporary Cinema of Africa and the Diaspora
What does "Africa Watch"? Anjali Prabhu begins her study of contemporary African and African diasporic cinema with a bold proposition: to watch films through an "Africanized perspective." (1) Questions of decolonizing the "gaze," spectatorship, and popular viewership have long preoccupied discussions of African cinema. Prabhu's intention, however, is not to offer a historically situated and experiential account of spectatorship in the African con…
Cartography and the Political Imagination: Mapping Community in Colonial Kenya
Ethnicity and Empire in Kenya: Loyalty and Martial Race among the Kamba c. 1800 to the Present
The field of ethnic histories in Kenya is a crowded one. Scholars working in this field have made major historiographical contributions to the study of identity, moral economy, patriotic work, and ...
The Life and Times of General China: Mau Mau and the End of Empire in Kenya
The Life and Times of General China: Mau Mau and the End of Empire in Kenya." Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines, 50(2), pp. 330–331
Insurgency and Counterinsurgency in Kenya: A Social History of the Shifta Conflict, c. 1963-1968
Insurgency and Counterinsurgency in Kenya: A Social History of the Shifta Conflict, c. 1963–1968." Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines, 50(2), pp. 325–326
Mbithi Masya. Kati Kati. 2016. 75 minutes. English and Swahili (with English subtitles). Kenya/Germany. One Fine Day Films. No price reported
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Populist resistance and alternative transitions: Indigenous ownership of energy infrastructure in Aotearoa New Zealand
Citizenship, Belonging, and Political Community in Africa: Dialogues between Past and Present
Africa, it is often said, is suffering from a crisis of citizenship. At the heart of the contemporary debates this apparent crisis has provoked lie dynamic relations between the present and the past, between political theory and political practice, and between legal categories and lived experience. Yet studies of citizenship in Africa have often tended to foreshorten historical time and privilege the present at the expense of the deeper past.\nCi…
Wanuri Kahiu, director. Rafiki. 2018. 82 minutes. English and Swahili (with English subtitles). Kenya/South Africa/France/Lebanon/Norway/Netherlands/Germany/USA. Big World Cinema/Afrobubblegum/MPM Fil…
Wanuri Kahiu, director. Rafiki. 2018. 82 minutes. English and Swahili (with English subtitles). Kenya/South Africa/France/Lebanon/Norway/Netherlands/Germany/USA. Big World Cinema/Afrobubblegum/MPM Films/Schortcut Films/Ape&Bjørn/Rinkel Film/Razor Film Production GmbH/Tango Productions. - Volume 62 Issue 2
K eren W eitzberg . We Do Not Have Borders: Greater Somalia and the Predicaments of Belonging in Kenya
In celebrated Somali poet Cali Sugulle’s play Indhasarcaad (1963), a young girl named Enefdhii becomes the physical embodiment of the Northern Frontier District of Kenya: “As long as within our own land / There are dividing frontier fences / And we remain incomplete, / Oh Death, if I reject you, / Oh Ancestry, if I claim you, / Oh Prosperity, if I follow your footprints, / Oh Satiety, if I seek you . . .” (translation from B. W. Andrzejewski, “Mo…
Decolonizing Sovereignty: States of Exception along the Kenya-Somali Frontier
Thinking East African: Debating Federation and Regionalism, 1960–1977
Canada's Green New Deal: Forging the socio-political foundations of climate resilient infrastructure
A global movement is underway to harness the power of coordinated state policy to address the significant and interrelated challenges of environmental degradation, climate change, poverty, and energy insecurity. In May 2019 a grassroots coalition comprising a range of civil society groups—scientists, labour unions, Indigenous peoples, and youth—launched the Pact for a Green New Deal (PGND) in Canada, with more than 150 town hall meetings across t…
Explaining inclusivity in energy transitions: Local and community energy in Aotearoa New Zealand
© 2020 The Authors International literature on citizen, local and community energy (LCE) has grown exponentially but has focussed on European and North American context. This paper contributes to understanding inclusivity in country-specific energy transition pathways, setting out an empirical analysis of grassroots energy innovation practices in a country that has to date followed an incumbent-led energy transition pathway – Aotearoa (New Zealan…
Prosecuting a Prophet: Justice, Psychiatry, and Rebellion in Colonial Kenya
In Kenya, the prophecies of the late Elijah Masinde, leader of the anti-colonial religious revival Dini ya Msambwa, remain contested. MacArthur explores the religious innovations, intellectual work, and moral debates for the first time through Masinde's own words. During his 1948 deportation trial, while the prosecution sought to remake Masinde from prophetic madman into calculating criminal, Masinde used the courtroom to challenge the pathologiz…
Imagining imperial frontiers: Photography-as-cartography in the mapping of eastern Africa
The state of eco-social work training in Canada: Transformative praxis for climate constrained futures
As climate disasters increase, social workers will increasingly be called upon to help communities with the related dislocations, eco-anxieties, and social transformations. This article explores the extent to which Canadian social work schools are preparing social workers to advance socio-ecological justice. It examines the coursework in these programmes as new standards come into effect in 2023. We consider radical, eco-social, feminist and Indi…
Equity, diversity and inclusion promises, exclusive practices? How to move towards effective and just energy transitions
Equitable, diverse and inclusive action in a climate emergency is not optional – it is an imperative. Despite the growing rhetoric for inclusive energy systems transformations, many such promises are often empty signifiers and lack substantive action. For energy transitions to be effective and sustainable, they must include, prioritize, and benefit diverse groups, encompassing marginalized communities, underrepresented stakeholders and those disp…
Political science (21 works) · Sociology (19 works) · Law (18 works) · Politics (15 works) · Law (13 works) · African history and culture studies (12 works) · History (10 works) · Economics (7 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Geography (7 works)