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Unsettled Denial and Belonging among White Kenyans Janet McIntosh UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS ethnographic studies in subjectivity Tanya Luhrmann and Steven Parish, Editors 1. Forget Colonialism? Sacrifi ce and the Art of Memory in Madagascar, by Jennifer Cole 2. Sensory Biographies: Lives and Deaths among Nepal’s Yolmo Buddhists, by Robert Desjarlais 3. Culture and the Senses: Bodily Ways of Knowing in an African Community, by Kathryn Linn Geurts 4. Becoming Sinners: Christianity and Moral Torment in a Papua New Guinea Society, by Joel Robbins 5. Jesus in Our Wombs: Embodying Modernity in a Mexican Convent, by Rebecca J. Lester 6. The Too-Good Wife: Alcohol, Codependency, and the Politics of Nurturance in Postwar Japan, by Amy Borovoy 7. Subjectivity: Ethnographic Investigations, edited by João Biehl, Byron Good, and Arthur Kleinman 8. Postcolonial Disorders, edited by Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good, Sandra Teresa Hyde, Sarah Pinto, and Byron J. Good 9. Under a Watchful Eye: Self, Power, and Intimacy in Amazonia, by Harry Walker 10. Unsettled: Denial and Belonging among White Kenyans, by Janet McIntosh This page intentionally left blank Unsettled SUDAN ETHIOPIA N UGANDA RIFT VALLEY A Laikipia District I L NORTH A EASTERN M WESTERN EASTERN O Rumuruti Soysambu S Kisumu Ranch Nanyuki Lake Nakuru CENTRAL Mount Kenya Victoria Lake Elmenteita GilgilHIGHLANDS NYANZA Naivasha OF KENYA Kijabe Thika Aberdare Mountain Karen Nairobi Range Rongai MachakoSsab NAIROBI aki River COAST Tsavo West National Park Tsavo East National Park TANZANIA Mt. Kilimanjaro Mambrui Malindi Kilifi Watamu Takaungu INDIAN 0 50 100 mi Mombasa OCEAN 0 50 100 150 km Kenya and its neighbors. This map shows places mentioned in the text. Unsettled Denial and Belonging among White Kenyans Janet McIntosh UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS University of California Press, one of the most distin- guished university presses in the United States, enriches lives around the world by advancing scholarship in the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. Its activities are supported by the UC Press Foundation and by philanthropic contributions from individuals and institutions. For more information, visit www.ucpress.edu. University of California Press Oakland, California © 2016 by The Regents of the University of California Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: McIntosh, Janet, 1969– author. Title: Unsettled : denial and belonging among white Kenyans / Janet McIntosh. Other titles: Ethnographic studies in subjectivity ; 10. Description: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2016] | “2016 | Series: Ethnographic studies in subjectivity ; 10 | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifi ers: lccn 2015043971 | isbn 9780520290495 (cloth : alk. paper) | isbn 9780520290518 (pbk. : alk. paper) | isbn 9780520964631 (ebook) Subjects: lcsh: Whites—Kenya—History. | Kenya— History—1963– | Kenya—Social conditions—1963– Classifi cation: lcc dt433.545.B74 M35 2016 | ddc 305.809/06762—dc23 lc record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2015043971 Manufactured in the United States of America 25 24 23 22 21 20 19 18 17 16 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 In keeping with a commitment to support environmen- tally responsible and sustainable printing practices, UC Press has printed this book on Natures Natural, a fi ber that contains 30% post-consumer waste and meets the minimum requirements of ansi/niso z39.48-1992 (r 1997) (Permanence of Paper). For Tobias and Theo, with love beyond words This page intentionally left blank Contents Acknowledgments ix 1 Unsettled 1 2 Loving the Land 48 3 Guilt 84 4 Confl icted Intimacies 115 5 Linguistic Atonement 151 6 The Occult 179 Conclusion 209 Notes 225 References 261 Index 283
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