{"product_id":"germans-on-the-kenyan-coast-9780253024305","title":"Germans on the Kenyan Coast","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNina Berman provides a nuanced, fresh, and contemplative interpretation of the colonial and post independence interaction between Kenya and Germany, shedding light on the romantic, psychosexual and psychosocial, and economic entanglements that tie German tourists to their Kenyan hosts on the Kenyan coast.\u003c\/p\u003e * Daily Nation *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNina Berman's \u003cem\u003eGermans on the Kenyan Coast: Land, Charity, and Romance\u003c\/em\u003e is a thoughtful effort to draw connections between the ever-vexed land question in the postcolonial world, the frequently oversimplified complexity of the history behind this, and the often-marginalized ways in which the personal has played as important a role as the political in externally-driven material development in Africa. As such, it is a welcome addition to an otherwise limited writing of its type.\u003c\/p\u003e * Europe Now *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBerman has done a wonderful job of providing a balance between detailing observations and personal stories from the ethnographic fieldwork and offering academic analyses. Thus, this is a suitable book for undergraduate and graduate level courses in tourism studies, social development, migration, urban development, humanitarian studies, and qualitative methods. Additionally, this book will no doubt contribute to a rethinking of the need to balance the power in the core-periphery relationships.\u003c\/p\u003e * Anthropos *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eBerman provides a compelling narrative that hopefully inspires similar analyses of other postcolonial African states in the future.\u003c\/p\u003e * German Studies Review *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eGermans on the Kenyan Coast\u003c\/em\u003e is an informative and thought-provoking work that deserves to be read by scholars of Kenya and those interested in globalized structures of gentrification, north-south humanitarian assistance, and love and romance in Africa.\u003c\/p\u003e * African Studies Quarterly *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e1. Pwani si Kenya—Pwani ni Kenya—Pwani ni Ujerumani (na Italia na kadhalika): \u003cbr\u003eMultitudinal Coastal Entanglements \u003cbr\u003e2. Land \u003cbr\u003e3. Charity \u003cbr\u003e4. Romance \u003cbr\u003eEpilogue: Je, Vitaturudia? Will They Return to Us?\u003cbr\u003eAppendix: Maps and Tables\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Indiana University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400561369431,"sku":"9780253024305","price":25.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780253024305.jpg?v=1730470987","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/germans-on-the-kenyan-coast-9780253024305","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}