{"title":"Militarisation of municipal service provision in metropolitan Nairobi? A localised document analysis of Africa’s ‘fatigue duty’ politics","authors":"O. A. K’Akumu","doi":"10.1080/02589001.2023.2177263","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Involvement of the army in civilian duties is not a unique phenomenon in Africa. This study undertakes a document analysis of this phenomenon in Africa in the case of the President Kenyatta's involvement of military officers in the management of municipal service provision in metropolitan Nairobi to reveal the political meanings it engenders between the military and political elites, and society at large. It localises the analysis in Nairobi city where the phenomenon can be understood within the current debates of civilian activation of militarisation and the blurring of boundaries between civilian and military institutions. This furthers the debate as to whether a technologically advanced institution like the military should be left idle in resource poor countries of Africa while citizens continue to suffer from inadequate provision of services.","PeriodicalId":51744,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary African Studies","volume":"40 1","pages":"495 - 510"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8000,"publicationDate":"2022-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of Contemporary African Studies","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02589001.2023.2177263","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"AREA STUDIES","Score":null,"Total":0}
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ABSTRACT Involvement of the army in civilian duties is not a unique phenomenon in Africa. This study undertakes a document analysis of this phenomenon in Africa in the case of the President Kenyatta's involvement of military officers in the management of municipal service provision in metropolitan Nairobi to reveal the political meanings it engenders between the military and political elites, and society at large. It localises the analysis in Nairobi city where the phenomenon can be understood within the current debates of civilian activation of militarisation and the blurring of boundaries between civilian and military institutions. This furthers the debate as to whether a technologically advanced institution like the military should be left idle in resource poor countries of Africa while citizens continue to suffer from inadequate provision of services.
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Journal of Contemporary African Studies (JCAS) is an interdisciplinary journal seeking to promote an African-centred scholarly understanding of societies on the continent and their location within the global political economy. Its scope extends across a wide range of social science and humanities disciplines with topics covered including, but not limited to, culture, development, education, environmental questions, gender, government, labour, land, leadership, political economy politics, social movements, sociology of knowledge and welfare. JCAS welcomes contributions reviewing general trends in the academic literature with a specific focus on debates and developments in Africa as part of a broader aim of contributing towards the development of viable communities of African scholarship. The journal publishes original research articles, book reviews, notes from the field, debates, research reports and occasional review essays. It also publishes special issues and welcomes proposals for new topics. JCAS is published four times a year, in January, April, July and October.
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