Suchergebnisse

Multitudinal coastal entanglements : Pwani si Kenya-pwani ni Kenya-pwani ni Ujerumani (na Italia na kadhalika) -- Land -- Charity -- Romance -- Epilogue: Je, vitaturudia? Will they return to us?

Remittances are sent by migrants to their families and friends back home. That definition, over the past few decades, has been the accepted understanding of the concept in discussions related to personal international money transfers (PIMTs), and in-kind and person-to-person cash transfers. However, no mechanism exists at present that can pinpoint the identity of the sender beyond an acknowledgment of the location from where remittances are sent. This study shows that a significant percentage of PIMTs are sent by non-migrant actors. Drawing on quantitative and qualitative data gathered in coastal Kenya, the discussion shows that transnational social networks that lead to the receiving of PIMTs include senders whose citizenship is different from that of the recipient. The data point to growing interconnectedness among social actors of the global community through tourism, business, missionary activity, and humanitarianism, and is relevant to understanding the function of remittances in the global economy.

This photo-essay examines how the leasing of private and public land for shale gas extraction ("fracking") in Pennsylvania has initiated a "tragedy of the commons" in historically communal locales, degrading common-pool resources and weakening long-standing norms of sovereignty and reciprocity.

This interdisciplinary and multivocal study reviews achievements and challenges related to the situation of persons with disabilities in Kenya today, in light of the country's longer history of disability and the wide range of local practices and institutions

German Colonialism Revisited brings together military historians, art historians, literary scholars, cultural theorists, and linguists to address a range of issues surrounding colonized African, Asian, and Oceanic people's creative reactions to and interactions with German colonialism. This scholarship sheds new light on local power dynamics; agency; and economic, cultural, and social networks that preceded and, as some now argue, ultimately structured German colonial rule. Going beyond issues of resistance, these essays present colonialism as a shared event from which both the colonized and the colonizers emerged changed.