Emma Park

Dispossession, World Ecology, and Care: A View from Kenya

Capitalism remakes relations among humans and between humans and more-than-human natures. This process has fostered a minimalist, productivist notion of care, commodifying or eroding relations that resist accumulation. Focusing on colonial Kenya, I explore how ecological crises and commodification disrupted interspecies patterns of care central to pastoral Maasai lifeways.