The subdued nature: reading Henry Ole Kulet’s Vanishing Herds through Eco-Marxist lenses

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dc.contributor.authorMugo, Muhia
dc.date.accessioned2020-09-15T12:19:50Z
dc.date.available2020-09-15T12:19:50Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.descriptionA research article published in African Identitiesen_US
dc.description.abstractModernity has come to be identified with industrialization and the changes that accompanied the then-emerging industrial societies. One major effect of modernity is the rise of the capitalist society on which Karl Marx’s matrix of economic theorization is founded. Building on Marx’s critique of the capitalist society, this article aims at critically reading the relationship that exists between the project of capitalism and the environment in the context of the Kenyan Maasai community. As Herbert Marcuse posits, capitalist production is inherently expansionist and therefore encroaches on natural space thereby subjecting nature to violence of exploitation and pollution. For him, ‘ecological struggle comes into conflict with the laws which govern the capitalist system’. The Maasai community has been affected greatly by agrarian capitalism that dates back to colonialism and which has been extended by subsequent postcolonial regimes. This article argues that the tragic journey across the Maasai plains undertaken by the two main protagonists in Henry Ole Kulet’s Vanishing Herds is representative of the effect that capitalist modernity has had on the Maasai ecosystems. Henry Ole Kulet tells a tragic story of the loss of Maasai land to commercial agricultural practices, tourism and settlements, all of which have profoundly eroded his people’s indigenous identity and culture.en_US
dc.identifier.citationMugo Muhia (2020) The subdued nature: reading Henry Ole Kulet’s Vanishing￿Herds through Eco-Marxist lenses, African Identities, 18:1-2, 130-144, DOI: 10.1080/14725843.2020.1773242en_US
dc.identifier.issn1472-5851
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1080/14725843.2020.1773242
dc.identifier.urihttp://ir-library.ku.ac.ke/handle/123456789/20355
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherTaylor & Francis Groupen_US
dc.subjectMaasaien_US
dc.subjectmodernityen_US
dc.subjectcapitalismen_US
dc.subjectaccumulationen_US
dc.subjectenvironmenten_US
dc.subjectidentityen_US
dc.titleThe subdued nature: reading Henry Ole Kulet’s Vanishing Herds through Eco-Marxist lensesen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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