Mac Arthur Julie
Assistant Professor African Studies
University of Toronto
Canada
Biography
Dr. Julie MacArthur's research interests revolve around the role of cartography and geographic imaginations, borders and local practices of space, in constructions of community, power, and dissent in modern Africa. She has previously published on questions of ethnic identity, linguistic history, and the making of political communities. Her first book, Cartography and the Political Imagination in Colonial Kenya (Ohio Univeristy Press, 2016) explores mapping, ethnogenesis, and dissenting politics in colonial Kenya. Her new research project entitled Radical Cartographies focuses on the alternative mappings of decolonization, sovereignty, and citizenship across eastern Africa, 1950-1976. She is also the editor of book project on the recently uncovered trial of Mau Mau Field Marshal Dedan Kimathi, forthcoming with Ohio University Press in Spring 2017. Dr. Julie MacArthur's research interests revolve around the role of cartography and geographic imaginations, borders and local practices of space, in constructions of community, power, and dissent in modern Africa. She has previously published on questions of ethnic identity, linguistic history, and the making of political communities. Her first book, Cartography and the Political Imagination in Colonial Kenya (Ohio Univeristy Press, 2016) explores mapping, ethnogenesis, and dissenting politics in colonial Kenya. Her new research project entitled Radical Cartographies focuses on the alternative mappings of decolonization, sovereignty, and citizenship across eastern Africa, 1950-1976. She is also the editor of book project on the recently uncovered trial of Mau Mau Field Marshal Dedan Kimathi, forthcoming with Ohio University Press in Spring 2017.
Research Interest
The role of cartography and geographic imaginations, borders and local practices of space, in constructions of community, power, and dissent in modern Africa
