The Contested Lands of Laikipia: Histories of Claims and Conflict in a Kenyan Landscape

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Marie Ladekjær Gravesen

The Contested Lands of Laikipia

Histories of Claims and Conflict in a Kenyan Landscape

Marie Ladekjær Gravesen

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Brill
19 November 2020

Society & culture: general; Land rights

Series: African Social Studies Series

Pastoralists, ranchers of European descent, conservationists, smallholders, and land investors with political influence converge on the Laikipia plateau in Kenya. Land is claimed by all - the tactics differ. Private property rights are presented, histories of presence are told, charges of immorality are applied, fences are electrified and some resort to violence. The region, marked by enclosures, is left as a tense fragmented frontier.

Marie Gravesen embedded herself in the region prior to a wave of land invasions that swept the plateau leading up to Kenya’s 2017 general election. Through a rich telling of the history of Laikipia’s social, political and environmental dynamics, she invites a deeper understanding of the pre-election violence and general tensions as never done before.

The manuscript is a revised version of the author's dissertation accepted by the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at the University of Cologne in 2018.

By: Marie Ladekjær Gravesen
Imprint: Brill
Volume: 42
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 155mm, Spine: 16mm
Weight: 469g
ISBN: 9789004435193
ISBN 10: 9004435190
Series: African Social Studies Series
Pages: 274
Publication Date: 19 November 2020
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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.

Reviews for The Contested Lands of Laikipia: Histories of Claims and Conflict in a Kenyan Landscape

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