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DESCRIPTION:A guest lecture by Professor Kariuki Kirigia of the School of E
 nvironment\, University of Toronto.\n\nThis lecture is part of the African
  Studies Program Speakers Series and is co-sponsored by the Institute for 
 the Study of International Development\, the Department of Anthropology an
 d the African Studies Students Association.\n\nAbstract:  This talk seeks 
 to upend an entrenched notion of what progress for Africa entails by engag
 ing the concept of waiting as both a discursive and methodological tool. T
 he idea of progress in the African context has largely been understood as 
 ‘development’\, or as being synonymous with ‘development’. The instruments
  and metrics used to measure this mode of progress\, such as the GDP and\,
  more recently\, CO2 emissions\, further entrench the idea of progress as 
 ‘development’. Focusing primarily on how capitalist logics have influenced
  land governance and biodiversity conservation among the Maasai peoples of
  Kenya\, I discuss how the transition from communal landownership and the 
 creation of wildlife conservancies are framed as progress. However\, rarel
 y discussed is what this transition phase entails\, yet it is during this 
 period that key outcomes of the privatization and conservation processes a
 re determined. Viewing the transition period as one where community member
 s and landowners wait\, I consider the varied ways individuals and groups 
 wait\, how waiting at times is mobilized to pursue the promissory notes of
  progress\, and the value of waiting as a disruptive tool against the avar
 icious forces of global capital. Ultimately\, I advance that waiting provi
 des fertile ground for conjuring effective strategies to foil the destruct
 ive forces of global capital in Africa.\n
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LOCATION:Room 232\, Leacock Building\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 2T7\, 855 r
 ue Sherbrooke Ouest
SUMMARY:Waiting for Progress: Promises of Privatization and Conservation on
  an African Indigenous Frontier in southern Kenya
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