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Radical utu : critical ideas and ideals of Wangari Muta Maathai
- Title
- Radical utu : critical ideas and ideals of Wangari Muta Maathai / Besi Brillian Muhonja.
- Author
- Muhonja, Besi Brillian
- Publication
- Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, [2020]
- ©2020
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- Description
- xiv, 153 pages; 22 cm.
- 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"--
- Series Statement
- Ohio University Research in International Studies, Africa Series ; no. 95
- Uniform Title
- Research in international studies. Africa series ; no. 95.
- Subject
- Maathai, Wangari
- Green Belt Movement (Society : Kenya)
- Women intellectuals > Kenya
- Women conservationists > Kenya
- Women political activists > Kenya
- Decolonization > Kenya
- Philosophy, African
- Decolonization
- Intellectual life
- Politics and government
- Women conservationists
- Women intellectuals
- Women political activists
- Kenya > Intellectual life
- Kenya > Politics and government
- Kenya
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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
- Call Number
- Sc D 21-693
- ISBN
- 9780896803268
- 0896803260
- LCCN
- 2020002544
- OCLC
- 1127866766
- Author
- Muhonja, Besi Brillian, author.
- Title
- Radical utu : critical ideas and ideals of Wangari Muta Maathai / Besi Brillian Muhonja.
- Publisher
- Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, [2020]
- Copyright Date
- ©2020
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Ohio University Research in International Studies, Africa Series ; no. 95Research in international studies. Africa series ; no. 95.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Subject
- Black author.
- Research Call Number
- Sc D 21-693