Business as Usual
White women, welfare, and violence in colonial Kenya, 1952-60
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4549302 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Deanne Van Tol (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Publication date | 2019-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1532-5768 • E-ISSN: 1532-5768 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/cch.2019.0039 |
| OpenAlex | W2994635911 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 6 |
This article considers the relationship between violence and humanitarianism at the end of the British Empire. During the Mau Mau Emergency in Kenya, 1952-60, the framework for counter-insurgency through rehabilitation was provided by the apparatus of the colonial welfare state, including voluntary organizations and actors. The archive of a settler voluntary organization in Kenya during the Emergency reveals the rhetoric and activities of voluntary welfare work as incorporated into the logic of violence underpinning imperial rule. This analysis of the front lines of colonial voluntary activity adds to an understanding of the tangled relationship between empire and humanitarianism
Colonialism · Empire · Political economy · Political science · Rhetoric · Sociology · Underpinning · Welfare · Engineering · Gender Studies · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics · Law · Race, History, and American Society · World Wars: History, Literature, and Impact
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |