British War-Effort Programme and the Making of the Land Degradation Narrative in Colonial Western Kenya
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4549801 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Martin S Shanguhyia (0000-0001-7819-3760, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Publication date | 2015-06-01 |
| 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.2015.0028 |
| OpenAlex | W1959747293 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 27 |
Most of the scholarship on colonial environmental policies in Africa focuses on how African communities were cast as culprits for environmental problems that plagued rural Africa. This interpretation overlooks ways in which colonial policies led to problems such as land degradation. This article demonstrates how exigencies of the Second World War elicited British colonial agricultural and labor policies amongst the Abaluyia community in western Kenya that exacerbated soil erosion. The analysis contributes to our understanding of how colonial economic policies and international crises contributed to the evolution of the colonial degradation narrative within the British Empire, and Africa in particular
Agriculture · Archaeology · Colonialism · Development economics · Economics · Empire · Environmental degradation · Interpretation (philosophy · Land degradation · Narrative · Political economy · Political science · Scholarship · Sociology · African history and culture studies · African studies and sociopolitical issues · Ecology · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · History · Law
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| Unique citing works | 9 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,5 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2020 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 9 |