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Cartography and the Political Imagination - Mapping Community in Colonial Kenya (Paperback)
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Cartography and the Political Imagination - Mapping Community in Colonial Kenya (Paperback)
Series: New African Histories
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After four decades of British rule in colonial Kenya, a previously
unknown ethnic name-"Luyia"-appeared on the official census in
1948. The emergence of the Luyia represents a clear case of ethnic
"invention." At the same time, current restrictive theories
privileging ethnic homogeneity fail to explain this defiantly
diverse ethnic project, which now comprises the second-largest
ethnic group in Kenya. In Cartography and the Political
Imagination, which encompasses social history, geography, and
political science, Julie MacArthur unpacks Luyia origins. In so
doing, she calls for a shift to understanding geographic
imagination and mapping not only as means of enforcing imperial
power and constraining colonized populations, but as tools for
articulating new political communities and dissent. Through
cartography, Luyia ethnic patriots crafted an identity for
themselves characterized by plurality, mobility, and cosmopolitan
belonging. While other historians have focused on the official maps
of imperial surveyors, MacArthur scrutinizes the ways African
communities adopted and adapted mapping strategies to their own
ongoing creative projects. This book marks an important
reassessment of current theories of ethnogenesis, investigates the
geographic imaginations of African communities, and challenges
contemporary readings of community and conflict in Africa.
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