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Research Article: “Hegemonic Masculinities”
Just out in War & Society (open access!): “Hegemonic masculinities and post-war reconciliation in Kenya during and after the Mau Mau Uprising (1952–60)” I look at how Kenyatta and the Gikuyu elite folded former Mau Mau fighters into a conservative, patriarchal vision of nationhood, with ex-fighters as agents of this process, not just its victims. Through the Kikuyu…
Research Article: The life and death of old-age social security in late-colonial Kenya
Please give my most recent journal article, in the Journal of Eastern African Studies, a read! The output of our “Global Socio-Economic Rights, Local Contexts” project and a talk I gave at the British Institute in Eastern Africa back in September. The paper describes how late-colonial Kenya saw intense debates over social security, as the…
Research Article: “Blackshirts” and “Blacklists”: The Politics of Late-Colonial Central Kenya, 1958–1963
Very excited to announce the publication of my latest article – the last in a trilogy about local politics in Nyeri District in the years surrounding Kenyan independence. I’m very grateful to Itinerario, and especially Drs Tim Livsey and Miguel Bandeira Jerónimo for putting together this Special Edition re-evaluating the notion of “late-colonialism”. The article…
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