Shifting land use patterns, intergenerational tensions, and competing visions of future-making in Kenya (B04)

• Subject Area: Social and Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology
• Term: from 2018 to 2021
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 328966760

This comparative project investigates how large-scale changes in resource allocation and use shape the ways young men from two Maa-speaking communities, the Il Chamus (Lake Baringo) and Keekonyoki Maasai (Lake Naivasha), envision and make “better futures” in Kenya. The project insists on the political ramifications of young men’s future projecting activities by relating them to an increasingly complex, national and transnational topography of politico-social entrepreneurship and brokerage.

• DFG Programme: CRC/Transregios
• Subproject of: TRR 228: Future Rural Africa: Future-making and social-ecological transformation
• Applicant Institution: Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn
• Project Head: Professorin Dorothea E. Schulz, Ph.D.