Searching for a New Kenya
Autor Stephanie Diepeveenen Limba Engleză Paperback – 20 iun 2024
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781108826402
ISBN-10: 1108826407
Pagini: 286
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 16 mm
Greutate: 0.42 kg
Editura: Cambridge University Press
ISBN-10: 1108826407
Pagini: 286
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 16 mm
Greutate: 0.42 kg
Editura: Cambridge University Press
Cuprins
Part I. Re-thinking Publics from Kenya: 1. Introduction; 2. The history of publics in Mombasa: people, media and the state; Part II. Characterising Publics: 3. Publics in the streets: Mombasa's street parliaments; 4. Publics in civil society and online: Mombasa's youth parliaments; Part III. Situating Publics in Time and Space: 5. Our turn to starve: material insecurity, idleness and publics; 6. Publics and the contested state of land in Kenya; 7. The obfuscation of spatial constraints on Facebook; Part IV. The Power of Publics: 8. Popular politics and publics during the 2013 general elections; 9. In the presence of fear: violence and publics in Kenya; 10. The individual spectator and the role of imagination in publics; 11. Conclusion.
Recenzii
'The focus on publics, at a time when scholars are revisiting the concept with fresh lenses, locates this book at the centre of one of the most important debates in African politics. Diepeveen demonstrates how social media and street parliaments in Kenya prompts us to rethink popular politics, across physical and digital spaces in Africa.' Duncan Omanga, Social Science Research Council, Brooklyn
'In Searching for a New Kenya, Diepeveen treats public talk in the streets and on social media along the same continuum. The book provides both a finely grained empirical analysis of the role of public talk in Kenya and a deeply theorised account of the nature of publics in Mombasa informed by Hannah Ahrendt's work. While digital technology is increasingly dismissed as invasive, extractive and controlling, Diepeveen powerfully demonstrates that the mere presence of publics - whether transformative or ineffectual - matters to people.' Wendy Willems, London School of Economics and Political Science
'Why can apparently open and lively political discussions can end up repeating the same patterns, over and over again - entrenching divisions rather than opening up new intellectual space? In this empirically rich snapshot of spaces of public debate in twenty-first century Mombasa, Stephanie Diepeveen explores this fundamental question, showing that both physical and virtual 'publics' are vivid and engaging theatres of argument, yet are multiply constrained - by the expectations of behaviour that structure debate, and by the same economic and social precarity that leads people to talk politics with such energy. In a world in which apparently ever-more open debate has been combined with increasingly bitter divisions, this is an important study of a pressing issue.' Justin Willis, Durham University
'A detailed and informative examination of people's parliaments in Mombasa, Kenya's chief port and the center of its Muslim population, this book examines the role of street corner discussions of political, economic, and social issues. Recommended.' R. I. Rotberg, Choice
'In Searching for a New Kenya, Diepeveen treats public talk in the streets and on social media along the same continuum. The book provides both a finely grained empirical analysis of the role of public talk in Kenya and a deeply theorised account of the nature of publics in Mombasa informed by Hannah Ahrendt's work. While digital technology is increasingly dismissed as invasive, extractive and controlling, Diepeveen powerfully demonstrates that the mere presence of publics - whether transformative or ineffectual - matters to people.' Wendy Willems, London School of Economics and Political Science
'Why can apparently open and lively political discussions can end up repeating the same patterns, over and over again - entrenching divisions rather than opening up new intellectual space? In this empirically rich snapshot of spaces of public debate in twenty-first century Mombasa, Stephanie Diepeveen explores this fundamental question, showing that both physical and virtual 'publics' are vivid and engaging theatres of argument, yet are multiply constrained - by the expectations of behaviour that structure debate, and by the same economic and social precarity that leads people to talk politics with such energy. In a world in which apparently ever-more open debate has been combined with increasingly bitter divisions, this is an important study of a pressing issue.' Justin Willis, Durham University
'A detailed and informative examination of people's parliaments in Mombasa, Kenya's chief port and the center of its Muslim population, this book examines the role of street corner discussions of political, economic, and social issues. Recommended.' R. I. Rotberg, Choice