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| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION |
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20180725122215.0 |
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780520290518 |
| 028 ## - DISTRIBUTOR NAME |
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| Distributor Name |
International Book Distributors |
| Distributor address |
;Flat No.17,Prakash Apartments ,5 Ansari Road,DaryaGanj,New Delhi-110002 |
| Bill Number |
;112528 |
| Bill Date |
;20/07/2018 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
305.8090 MCL |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Janet McIntosh |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Unsettled |
| Remainder of title |
: denial and belonging among white Kenyans |
| Statement of responsibility, etc |
/Janet McIntosh |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc |
Oakland, California |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc |
: University of California Press |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc |
, 2016 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
xii,292 pages |
| Dimensions |
;24 cm. |
| 490 ## - SERIES STATEMENT |
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| Series statement |
Ethnographic studies in subjectivity, 10. |
| 505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
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| Contents note |
Unsettled --<br/>Loving the land --<br/>Guilt --<br/>Conflicted intimacies --<br/>Linguistic atonement --<br/>The occult. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc |
In 1963, Kenya gained independence from Britain, ending nearly seventy years of white colonial rule. While tens of thousands of whites relocated outside Kenya for what they hoped would be better prospects, many stayed. Over the past decade, however, protests, scandals, and upheavals have unsettled families with colonial origins, reminding them of the tenuousness of their Kenyan identity. In this book, Janet McIntosh looks at the lives and dilemmas of settler descendants living in postindependence Kenya. From clinging to a lost colonial identity to embracing a new Kenyan nationality, the public face of white Kenyans has undergone changes fraught with ambiguity. Drawing on fieldwork and interviews, McIntosh focuses on their discourses and narratives, asking: What stories do settler descendants tell about their claims to belong in Kenya? How do they situate themselves vis-a-vis the colonial past and anticolonial sentiment, phrasing and rephrasing their memories and judgments as they seek a position they feel is ethically acceptable? With her respondents straining to defend their entitlements in the face of mounting Kenyan rhetorics of ancestry and autochthony, McIntosh explores their contradictory and diverse responses: moral double consciousness, aspirations to uplift the nation, ideological blind spots, denial, and self-doubt. Ranging from land rights to language, from romantic intimacy to the African occult, Unsettled offers a unique perspective on whiteness in a postcolonial context and a groundbreaking theory of elite subjectivity |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Social Sciences |
| 655 ## - INDEX TERM--GENRE/FORM |
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| Genre/form data or focus term |
Social conditions |
| Non-focus term |
Kenya -- Social conditions -- 1963- |
| 700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Janet McIntosh |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
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| Koha item type |
Books |
