Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations Used in Text

A Note on Currency and Geography

Introduction

Chapter 1 “Can I Be One of Them?” - The Landscapes of Settlement in Decolonizing Kenya

Chapter 2 “We Must Return to the Land That We Love” - Local Accounts and Life Histories in Three Settlement Schemes

Chapter 3 “The Land Was Ours, but It Was Not Mine” - Land Marginalization and the Political Imagination

Chapter 4 “If I Was Evicted, Where Could I Go?” - Cooperative Development and Contestations over Economic Citizenship

Chapter 5 “A Hungry Nation Cannot Be Contented” - The Political Economy of Famine

Chapter 6 “Those Poor People Who Sweated Themselves to Help Themselves” - Self-Help and the Contradictions of Citizenship and Development

Chapter 7 “Are You Planting Trees or Are You Planting People?” - Local Resistance, International Development, and the Making of Kenya

Conclusion

Archival Source Abbreviations and Labels Used in Notes

Notes

Bibliography

Index