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Radical utu : critical ideas and ideals of Wangari Muta Maathai / Besi Brillian Muhonja.
Van Pelt Library DT433.582.M24 M84 2020
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Muhonja, Besi Brillian, author.
- Series:
- Research in international studies. Africa series ; no. 95.
- Ohio University Research in International Studies, Africa Series ; no. 95
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Maathai, Wangari.
- Women intellectuals--Kenya.
- Women intellectuals.
- Women conservationists--Kenya.
- Women conservationists.
- Women political activists--Kenya.
- Women political activists.
- Decolonization.
- Intellectual life.
- Kenya--Intellectual life.
- Kenya.
- Kenya--Politics and government.
- Politics and government.
- Decolonization--Kenya.
- Philosophy, African.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 153 pages ; 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, [2020]
- Summary:
- "Wangari Muta Maathai was a scholar-activist known for founding the Green Belt Movement, an environmental campaign that earned her the Nobel Peace Prize. While many studies of Maathai highlight her activism, few examine Maathai as a scholar whose contributions to various disciplines and causes spanned more than three decades. In Radical Utu: Critical Ideas and Ideals of Wangari Muta Maathai, Besi Brillian Muhonja presents the words and works of Maathai as theoretical concepts attesting to her contributions to gender equality, democratic spaces, economic equity and global governance, and indigenous African languages and knowledges. Muhonja's well-rounded portrait of Maathai's ideas offers a corrective to the one-dimensional characterization of Maathai typical of other works"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Birthing Radical Selves: The Making of a Scholar-Activist
- Replenishing the Earth: Maathai's Holistic Environmentalism
- Eco-agency and Unbowed Personhood: A Decolonial Imagining of Equity
- Theorizing and Activating Utu Citizenships
- Just Globalization: Utu and Development as Social Justice
- Scholar-Activist Legacy
- Appendix 1: Awards and Honors
- Appendix 2: Saving Karura
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780896803268
- 0896803260
- OCLC:
- 1127866766
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