Radical Utu : Critical Ideas and Ideals of Wangari Muta Maathai

Authors

Besi Brillian Muhonja

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Series

Research in International Studies, Africa Series

Description

Wangari Muta Maathai was a scholar-activist known for founding the Green Belt Movement, an environmental campaign that earned her the Nobel Peace Prize. While many studies of Maathai highlight her activism, few examine Maathai as a scholar whose contributions to various disciplines and causes spanned more than three decades.

In Radical Utu: Critical Ideas and Ideals of Wangari Muta Maathai, Besi Brillian Muhonja presents the words and works of Maathai as theoretical concepts attesting to her contributions to gender equality, democratic spaces, economic equity and global governance, and indigenous African languages and knowledges. Muhonja’s well-rounded portrait of Maathai’s ideas offers a corrective to the one-dimensional characterization of Maathai typical of other works.

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Radical Utu © 2020 by Ohio University Press is licensed under Creative Commons License CC BY-NC-ND. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Language

eng

ISBN

9780896805071

Publication Date

6-9-2020

Publisher

Ohio University Press

City

Athens

Keywords

Wangari Maathai, Green Belt Movement, environmental activism, feminist theory, African philosophy, gender equality, democracy, economic justice, global governance, indigenous knowledge, environmental justice, scholarly activism, Besi Brillian Muhonja, Radical Utu

Disciplines

African Studies | Environmental Studies | Politics and Social Change | Women's Studies

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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.

Recommended Citation

Muhonja, Besi Brillian, "Radical Utu : Critical Ideas and Ideals of Wangari Muta Maathai" (2020). Ohio University Press Open Access Books. 89.
https://ohioopen.library.ohio.edu/oupress/89