Undercurrents of Ethnic Conflict in Kenya

Erscheinungsjahr 2002
ISBN: 978-90-04-12459-2
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 3, 238 Seiten, Format (B × H): 164 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 481 g

Reihe: African Social Studies Series

This book analyses the ethnic conflict that engulfed Kenya’s Rift Valley Province at the turn of the nineties when multi-party democratic politics were being reintroduced in the country. Its central thesis is that ethnic conflict in the country then was a function of several issues, among them ethnocentrism, politics, the land question and criminal behaviour in certain circles. Both its determinants and consequences are demographic, economic, political and socio-cultural, implying the risks involved in oversimplifying issues.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Oucho, John

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gewalt und Diskriminierung: Soziale Aspekte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten

Über Autor(innen)

John O. Oucho, Ph.D. (1982) in Population Geography, University of Nairobi, Kenya. He has published extensively in population and development interrelations, with particular emphasis on both internal and international migration as well as population and conflict. His book Urban Migrants and Rural Development in Kenya (Nairobi University Press, 1996) is a widely read university text.