Being Maasai, Becoming Indigenous
Postcolonial politics in a neoliberal world
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6023413 |
|---|---|
| Authors | K Homewood (0000-0001-7391-985X, University College London, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 111 |
| Issue | 445 |
| Pages | 682-684 |
| Publication date | 2012-10-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | African Affairs (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0001-9909 • E-ISSN: 1468-2621 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/afraf/ads044 |
| OpenAlex | W2314339681 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
Dorothy Hodgson's new book sets out an ethnography of political and civil society organizations among Maasai in northern Tanzania. She documents the emergence of Maasai NGOs from the 1980s onwards, triggered by spiralling land loss and impoverishment in Tanzanian rangelands. She charts the proliferation of these organizations, their varied natures, and the challenges they have faced. Those challenges have been both internal (organizational structures, capacity, governance issues, unclear mandates) and external (fragile legitimacy among their own constituencies; upward accountability to donors with diverging agendas; a state unwilling to recognize the economic and ecological contributions of mobile, transhumant livestock production and unsympathetic to socio-cultural differences). All these issues are complicated by the ceaseless need to jockey for position and scramble for funds, and by deep internal ambivalence over, for example, gender and age-set relations, and how these should inform organizational structure and priorities. Hodgson follows the struggles of these organizations to become functional and to achieve legitimacy in the eyes of their own constituencies, a reluctant state, and a fickle international arena.
Ambivalence · Civil society · Corporate governance · Indigenous · Legitimacy · Maasai · Management · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Socioeconomics · Sociology · State (computer science) · Tanzania · Ecology · Law · Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology · Tourism, Volunteerism, and Development
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| Citations per year | 0.64 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2012 - 2023 (12) |
| Highly cited | No |