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Bethany Rebisz
Lecturer in the History of Modern Africa, University of Bristol
I am a social historian of modern Africa, with a particular focus on gender and women's history. My interests include African oral histories, histories of humanitarianism, welfarism and development, counter-insurgency warfare, colonial violence, and digital humanities.
My current book project explores the relationship between colonial counter-insurgency tactics and international humanitarianism in the context of the Mau Mau insurgency in Kenya, 1952-1960. It uses villagisation, a counter-insurgency measure enforced during the campaign to administer tighter control over the movement of civilians, as a site to interrogate the relationships between humanitarian organisations, the colonial administration and the displaced indigenous women and their children. The project analyses the supposedly reformative practices deployed by the British colonial government and external actors, like the British Red Cross Society, in response to women and girls suspected of supporting forest fighters. These practices publicly endorsed ideas of African women’s advancement and development. While the colonial government projected a reformative discourse for their approach to women and children, this research shows that this process was gendered and inherently violent in practice. Villagisation in this campaign operated as a tool to subdue a specific demographic of the Kenyan population suspected of fuelling anti-colonial action: women and girls.
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