Nairobi in the Making : Landscapes of time and urban belonging
- Submitting institution
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The University of Manchester
: B - Social Anthropology
- Unit of assessment
- 22 - Anthropology and Development Studies : B - Social Anthropology
- Output identifier
- 158291909
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- James Currey
- ISBN
- 9781847012333
- Open access status
- -
- Month of publication
- March
- Year of publication
- 2020
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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A - SoSS
- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This monograph is grounded in 19 months of ethnographic fieldwork and archival research in Nairobi, Kenya, in 2013-14, 2016 and 2018. Fieldwork required competency in Swahili, acquired during two years of study. Working in marginal neighbourhoods required liaison with diverse stakeholders and developing trust with residents. The archival research was time-consuming and required tracking source material between multiple sites. The book bridges three fields – the anthropology of materiality and infrastructure, postcolonial Kenyan history, and the scholarship of African cities – and emerged through diverse presentations in these fields over several years, to ensure core arguments were interdisciplinary and rigorous.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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