Burning Ambition: Education, Arson, and Learning Justice in Kenya

by Elizabeth Cooper and Elizabeth Cooper

Burning Ambition explores how young people learn to understand and influence the workings of power and justice in their society. Since 2008, hundreds of secondary schools across Kenya have been targeted with fire by their students. Through an in-depth study of Kenyan secondary students' use of arson, Elizabeth Cooper asks why. With insightful ethnographic analysis, she shows that these young students deploy arson as moral punishment for perceived...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0299337901
• ISBN13: 9780299337902
• Release Date: July 2022
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"