Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface. Escaping Development vii
4. Chapter 1. Bewitching Development: The Disintegration and Reinvention of Development in Kenya 1
5. Chapter 2. I Still Exist! Taita Historicity 49
6. Chapter 3. Development’s Other: Witchcraft as Development through the Looking Glass 93
7. Chapter 4. “Each Household Is a Kingdom”: Development and Witchcraft at Home 117
8. Chapter 5. “Dot Com Will Die Seriously!” Spatiotemporal Miscommunication and Competing Sovereignties in Taita Thought and Ritual 147
9. Chapter 6. NGOs, Gender, and the Sovereign Child 179
10. Chapter 7. Democracy Victorious: Exorcising Witchcraft from Development 215
11. Chapter 8. Conclusion: Tempopolitics, Or Why Development Should Not Be Defined as the Improvement of Living Standards 241
12. Notes 249
13. References 255
14. Index 267