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Individualism, Environmentalisms, and the Pastoral in the Picture Book Biographies of Wangari Maathai

2016; Johns Hopkins University Press; Volume: 44; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1353/chl.2016.0002

1543-3374

Clare Echterling,

Anthropological Studies and Insights

This article argues that the children’s picture book biographies of Wangari Maathai, co-founder of the Green Belt Movement, by and large overlook the imperial underpinnings of Kenya’s environmental problems, over-simplify environmental crisis and resolution, and endorse a form of environmentalism that privileges individual action over collective effort and social change.