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Laikipia has seen more violence than any part of Kenya over the past 30 years. Marie Gravesen here tells us why. Political claim-making, ethnic mobilisation, and land invasions set the terms of Laikipia’s struggles, in a context marked by resource competition and diminishing livelihoods. Patient fieldwork and evocative story-telling brings Laikipia’s communities to life in this excellent book, but we also learn why the situation is unlikely to improve any time soon. This is by far the best recent study of Kenya’s violent local politics. David M Anderson, Professor of African History, University of Warwick

Laikipia has seen more violence than any part of Kenya over the past 30 years. Marie Gravesen here tells us why. Political claim-making, ethnic mobilisation, and land invasions set the terms of Laikipia's struggles, in a context marked by resource competition and diminishing livelihoods. Patient fieldwork and evocative story-telling brings Laikipia's communities to life in this excellent book, but we also learn why the situation is unlikely to improve any time soon. This is by far the best recent study of Kenya's violent local politics. David M Anderson, Professor of African History, University of Warwick

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Marie Ladekjær Gravesen, Ph.D., Cologne University, is a researcher at the Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS). Historically and anthropologically, her work addresses land contestations, enclosures, social-ecological dynamics and adaptation in East- and West Africa.

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