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04164aam a2200613 i 4500 001 B2EEEF94CF3111EB9A1890BA3BECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20210617010040 008 190610s2019 wauab b 001 0 eng c 010 $a 2019023571 020 $a 0295746505 020 $a 9780295746500 020 $a 0295746513 020 $a 9780295746517 035 $a (OCoLC)1103999302 040 $a IEN/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d TOH $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d YDX $d TEU $d UKMGB $d EAU $d BDX $d CHVBK $d OCLCO $d NYP $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a f-ke--- 050 00 $a HN793.A8 $b S73 2019 082 00 $a 306.0967627 $2 23 100 1 $a Styles, Megan A., $e author. 245 10 $a Roses from Kenya : $b labor, environment, and the global trade in cut flowers / $c Megan A. Styles. 264 1 $a Seattle : $b University of Washington Press, $c [2019] 300 $a xvii, 232 pages : $b illustrations, maps ; $c 24 cm. 490 1 $a Culture, place, and nature 520 $a "Kenya supplies more than 35 percent of the fresh-cut roses and other flowers sold annually in the European Union. This industry-which employs at least 90,000 workers, most of whom are women-is lucrative but enduringly controversial. More than half the flowers are grown near the shores of Lake Naivasha, a freshwater lake northwest of Nairobi recognized as a Ramsar site, a wetland of international importance. Critics decry the environmental side effects of floriculture, and human rights activists demand better wages and living conditions for workers. In this rich portrait of Kenyan floriculture, Megan Styles presents the point of view of local workers and investigates how the industry shapes Kenyan livelihoods, landscapes, and politics. She investigates the experiences and perspectives of low-wage farmworkers and the more elite actors whose lives revolve around floriculture, including farm managers and owners, Kenyan officials, and the human rights and environmental activists advocating for reform. By exploring these perspectives together, Styles reveals the complex and contradictory ways that rose farming shapes contemporary Kenya. She also shows how the rose industry connects Kenya to the world, and how Kenyan actors perceive these connections. As a key space of encounter, Lake Naivasha is a synergistic center where many actors seek to solve broader Kenyan social and environmental problems using the global flows of people, information, and money generated by floriculture"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Introduction: Place, Power, and Possibility in a Kenyan Nerve Center -- Situating Naivasha -- Low-Wage Laborers: Sacrifice in a Slippery Context -- Black Kenyan Professionals: Seeking Exposure -- Floriculture and the State: Building and Branding Kenya -- White Kenyans and Expatriates: Belonging and Control. 650 0 $a Rose industry $x Social aspects $z Naivasha. $z Naivasha. 650 0 $a Rose industry $x Environmental aspects $z Naivasha. $z Naivasha. 650 0 $a Floriculture $z Naivasha. $z Naivasha. 651 0 $a Naivasha (Kenya) $x Social conditions $y 21st century. 651 0 $a Naivasha (Kenya) $x Economic conditions $y 21st century. 650 7 $a HISTORY / Social History. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a Economic history. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00901974 650 7 $a Floriculture. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00927668 650 7 $a Social conditions. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01919811 651 7 $a Kenya $z Naivasha. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01257469 650 7 $a Alltag $2 gnd 650 7 $a Globalisierung $2 gnd 650 7 $a Politik $2 gnd 650 7 $a Rosenanbau $2 gnd 650 7 $a Sozialer Wandel $2 gnd 650 7 $a Umwelt $2 gnd 650 7 $a Weltwirtschaft $2 gnd 651 7 $a Kenia $2 gnd 651 7 $a Naivasha-See $2 gnd 648 7 $a 2000-2099 $2 fast 655 7 $a Informational works. $2 lcgft 776 08 $i Online version: $a Styles, Megan A. $t Roses from Kenya $d Seattle : University of Washington Press, 2019 $z 9780295746524 $w (DLC) 2019023572 830 0 $a Culture, place, and nature. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20220317022054.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=B2EEEF94CF3111EB9A1890BA3BECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search