Kenya: Kenya's New Indigenes: Negotiating Local Identities In A Global Context

Kenya: Kenya's New Indigenes: Negotiating Local Identities In A Global Context Gabrielle Lynch, 2011   This article examines the proliferation of communities that self-identify as indigenous peoples by looking at the Ogiek, Sengwer, Endorois and Pokot of western Kenya. It shows how community leaders have self-consciously employed a global discourse of indigeneity – and associated ideas of territorial association, marginalisation and especial vulnerability – to strengthen moral and legal...

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