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Brokerage in the borderlands: the political economy of livestock intermediaries in northern Kenya 边境地区的经纪:肯尼亚北部牲畜中介的政治经济
IF 1.4 3区 社会学 Q2 AREA STUDIES Pub Date : 2020-11-16 DOI: 10.1080/17531055.2020.1845041
Ong'ao P. Ng'asike, T. Hagmann, O. Wasonga
ABSTRACT This article argues that brokers are key actors in the cross-border livestock trade between Kenya and Somalia, where formal regulations are weak or absent. We elucidate the economic and social rationales for livestock brokerage as well as a series of brokering practices taking place at the intersection of profit making, kinship and trust. Besides producing social capital based on trust, brokers facilitate the formalization of livestock trading by linking livestock production sites in southern Somalia to consumer markets in Kenya. Brokers thereby take on various roles and functions that contribute to integrating markets across fragmented territories. Based on extended fieldwork conducted in and around Garissa livestock market as well as in Nairobi, the paper outlines the political economy of livestock intermediaries in the important Somali-Kenyan cross-border livestock trade.
本文认为,经纪人是肯尼亚和索马里之间跨境牲畜贸易的关键角色,这两个国家的正式法规薄弱或缺乏。我们阐明了畜牧经纪的经济和社会原理,以及在利益、亲属关系和信任的交叉点上发生的一系列经纪行为。除了产生基于信任的社会资本外,经纪人还通过将索马里南部的牲畜生产地与肯尼亚的消费市场联系起来,促进了牲畜贸易的正规化。因此,经纪人承担了各种角色和职能,有助于整合分散地区的市场。基于在加里萨牲畜市场及其周边地区以及内罗毕进行的广泛实地调查,本文概述了重要的索马里-肯尼亚跨境牲畜贸易中牲畜中介机构的政治经济学。
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引用次数: 5
Revenues on the hoof: livestock trade, taxation and state-making in the Somali territories 实际收入:索马里领土上的牲畜贸易、税收和国家建设
IF 1.4 3区 社会学 Q2 AREA STUDIES Pub Date : 2020-10-23 DOI: 10.1080/17531055.2020.1834306
A. M. Musa, F. Stepputat, T. Hagmann
ABSTRACT This article considers the relationship between livestock taxation and local state formation dynamics in the northern Somali territories. While the economic importance of livestock in Somalia is undisputed, its significance as a source of revenue and legitimacy for public administrations and competing state-building projects has been overlooked. Drawing on fieldwork in Somaliland’s main livestock markets and the Berbera corridor, we highlight the interplay between public administrations that seek to maximize livestock revenue and traders who attempt to minimize taxation. State attempts to capture these ‘revenues on the hoof’ by both coercive and consensual means, shifting livestock trading routes and fluctuating animal trading volumes produce different taxation patterns across the Somali territories. As a result, fiscal contracts between livestock traders and public administrations are marked by various degrees of reciprocity and coercion.
本文考虑了索马里北部地区牲畜税收与地方国家形成动态之间的关系。虽然牲畜在索马里的经济重要性是无可争议的,但其作为公共行政和竞争性国家建设项目的收入来源和合法性的重要性却被忽视了。通过对索马里兰主要牲畜市场和柏培拉走廊的实地考察,我们强调了寻求牲畜收入最大化的公共行政部门与试图将税收最小化的贸易商之间的相互作用。国家试图通过强制和双方同意的方式获取这些“在逃收入”,牲畜交易路线的改变和动物交易量的波动在索马里领土上造成了不同的税收模式。因此,牲畜贸易商和公共行政部门之间的财政合同带有不同程度的互惠和强制。
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引用次数: 2
Humanitarian spill-over: the expansion of hybrid humanitarian governance from camps to refugee hosting societies in East Africa 人道主义溢出效应:混合人道主义治理从难民营扩展到东非的难民收容社会
IF 1.4 3区 社会学 Q2 AREA STUDIES Pub Date : 2020-10-01 DOI: 10.1080/17531055.2020.1832292
B. Jansen, Milou de Bruijne
ABSTRACT The impact and effects of protracted refugee camps on their host environments in East Africa has been the subject of much academic attention since the late 1990s. Such camps are often viewed as exclusionary spaces that isolate refugees from their host societies. Recent analyses, however, posit such camps as hybrid spaces, with fluid boundaries, that provide socio-economic opportunities and are potential drivers of development. Less thinking has gone into how forms of (humanitarian) governance emanate from such camps and impact their host environments. This paper is based on ethnographic research in and around refugee camps in Kenya and Tanzania. Grounded in a spatial analysis of camp development processes, this paper explores the notion of ‘humanitarian spill-over’. It argues that camps’ specific governmental processes and bureaucratic power come to co-govern and co-shape socio-spatial relations beyond the boundaries of the camp and the initial targets of humanitarian concern. By analysing the socio-spatial effects of long-term humanitarian governance, this paper contributes to, debates about camps as hybrid spaces and locates experiments with developmental approaches to camp environments in East Africa in a history of a more organic process of spill-over. We show how the spill-over is increasingly posited as intention rather than effect.
摘要自20世纪90年代末以来,东非旷日持久的难民营对收容环境的影响一直是学术界关注的主题。这些难民营往往被视为排斥性空间,将难民与其所在社会隔离开来。然而,最近的分析认为,这些营地是具有流动边界的混合空间,提供了社会经济机会,是发展的潜在驱动力。很少有人思考(人道主义)治理形式是如何从这些营地产生并影响其所在环境的。本文基于对肯尼亚和坦桑尼亚难民营及其周围地区的民族志研究。基于对营地发展过程的空间分析,本文探讨了“人道主义溢出”的概念。它认为,难民营的具体政府程序和官僚权力超越了难民营和人道主义关注的最初目标的边界,共同治理和塑造了社会空间关系。通过分析长期人道主义治理的社会空间影响,本文为关于营地作为混合空间的辩论做出了贡献,并在一个更有机的溢出过程的历史中,定位了东非营地环境发展方法的实验。我们展示了溢出如何越来越多地被认为是意图而非效果。
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引用次数: 7
Youth, the Kenyan state and a politics of contestation 青年,肯尼亚国家和政治的争论
IF 1.4 3区 社会学 Q2 AREA STUDIES Pub Date : 2020-10-01 DOI: 10.1080/17531055.2020.1831850
Wangui Kimari, Luke Melchiorre, Jacob Rasmussen
ABSTRACT This paper introduces the Special Collection ‘Youth, the Kenyan state and a politics of contestation'. It focuses on youth and the heterogenous ways this social category responds to inordinate state action. Specifically, we foreground the various roles the Kenyan state has played in the construction and politicization of Kenyan youth across time and space. The introduction frames the papers in the Special Collection within a three-pronged argument: First, while we present youth as heterogeneous social category, we argue that their similar experiences of state surveillance and violence warrant analyzing them through a comparative lens. Secondly, we reject ahistorical renderings of youth politics often presented in youth bulge studies, arguing that such analyses have served to disregard and delegitimize the political grievances of Kenyan youth and flatten the diversity of their political activities. Finally we call for an approach to the study of youth politics, which seeks to expand ‘the parameters of the political’, taking oft-neglected informal spaces of youth political activity as important discursive and material sites of investigation. Taking these spaces seriously as objects of analysis, the papers provide a nuanced assessment of youth as political actors, which problematize reductive dichotomous narratives of youth politics that pit resistance against co-optation.
本文介绍《青年、肯尼亚国家与竞争政治》特辑。它关注的是年轻人以及这一社会类别对过度国家行为的异质反应。具体而言,我们展望了肯尼亚政府在肯尼亚青年建设和政治化方面所发挥的各种作用。引言将《特别文集》中的论文纳入了一个三管齐下的论点中:首先,虽然我们将青年视为一个异质的社会类别,但我们认为,他们在国家监视和暴力方面的相似经历值得通过比较的视角来分析。其次,我们反对青年膨胀研究中经常出现的对青年政治的非历史性描述,认为这种分析忽视了肯尼亚青年的政治不满并使其失去合法性,使他们政治活动的多样性变平。最后,我们呼吁采取一种研究青年政治的方法,寻求扩大“政治参数”,将经常被忽视的青年政治活动的非正式空间作为重要的话语和材料调查场所。这些论文认真对待这些空间作为分析对象,对青年作为政治行动者进行了细致的评估,使青年政治的还原性二分法叙事成为问题,这些叙事将抵制与选择对立起来。
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引用次数: 5
Priceless land: valuation and compensation of expropriated farmland in the Amhara region, Ethiopia 无价的土地:埃塞俄比亚阿姆哈拉地区被征用农田的估价和补偿
IF 1.4 3区 社会学 Q2 AREA STUDIES Pub Date : 2020-10-01 DOI: 10.1080/17531055.2020.1831851
H. Aspen, Bedemariam Woldeyesus
ABSTRACT In Ethiopia, farmland belongs to ‘the people’ (the state) and cannot be sold or bought, but compensatory measures have been introduced for land expropriated for infrastructure and industry. The article analyses processes of valuation and compensation of land in Kombolcha district in the Amhara region of Ethiopia. Here numerous projects have affected highly productive farmland over the last decade. Monetary compensation to land holders whose farmland is expropriated is relatively new in Ethiopia, and we explore how peasants and authorities gradually have attained increased competence in dealing with land valuation and compensation, faced with often obscure and contradictory legislation.
摘要在埃塞俄比亚,农田属于“人民”(国家),不能出售或购买,但已经对基础设施和工业征用的土地采取了补偿措施。本文分析了埃塞俄比亚阿姆哈拉地区Kombolcha地区土地的估价和补偿过程。在过去的十年里,许多项目影响了高产农田。在埃塞俄比亚,对农田被征用的土地所有者进行货币补偿相对较新,我们探讨了农民和当局如何在面临往往晦涩和矛盾的立法时,逐渐提高处理土地估价和补偿的能力。
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引用次数: 1
Correction 修正
IF 1.4 3区 社会学 Q2 AREA STUDIES Pub Date : 2020-10-01 DOI: 10.1080/17531055.2020.1740480
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引用次数: 0
War-talk: an urban youth language of siege in Nairobi 战争谈话:内罗毕城市青年围攻的语言
IF 1.4 3区 社会学 Q2 AREA STUDIES Pub Date : 2020-10-01 DOI: 10.1080/17531055.2020.1831847
Wangui Kimari
ABSTRACT In this article, I detail how youth in poor urban settlements in Nairobi use a vernacular that I term war-talk. This is a speech, anchored in the Swahili derived urban slang language Sheng, which includes words that reference combat situations. If Sheng, as has been argued, is a generational articulation of unequal spatialized relations in Nairobi, war-talk further indexes the siege that those who live within the margins of the city experience every day, and that appears to be worsening. In addition, I put forward that war-talk is shaped by specific situated identities taken up in the East of Nairobi, subjectivities that chronicle what are seen as ongoing violations of the poor, particularly by the police. At the same time, while it bears witness to “war,” war-talk does not position its speakers solely as victims, and is performed as a language that offers deft situated escapes that portend vernacular and material agency for those who continue to be its progenitors in the margins of this city.
在这篇文章中,我详细介绍了内罗毕贫困城市定居点的年轻人如何使用一种我称之为“战争言论”的方言。这是一篇演讲,以斯瓦希里语衍生的城市俚语“盛”为基础,其中包括指代战斗情况的单词。如果说,正如人们所争论的那样,盛是内罗毕不平等空间关系的代际表达,那么战争言论进一步表明,那些生活在城市边缘的人每天都在经历的围困,而且这种围困似乎正在恶化。此外,我还提出,战争言论是由内罗毕东部所具有的特定身份所塑造的,这种主观性记录了被视为持续侵犯穷人的行为,特别是警察的行为。与此同时,虽然它见证了“战争”,但战争话语并没有将其使用者仅仅定位为受害者,而是作为一种语言进行表演,为那些继续在这个城市边缘充当其祖先的人提供了灵巧的情境逃避,预示着白话和物质代理。
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引用次数: 5
Seeing like students: what Nairobi youth think about politics, the state and the future 像学生一样看:内罗毕青年对政治、国家和未来的看法
IF 1.4 3区 社会学 Q2 AREA STUDIES Pub Date : 2020-10-01 DOI: 10.1080/17531055.2020.1831846
E. King, D. Harel, D. Burde, J. Hill, Simon Grinsted
ABSTRACT While Kenyan youth comprise the majority of the Kenyan electorate, they are typically either stereotyped as criminals or marginalized, rather than taken seriously as politically important actors. The importance of youth in Kenya, and the gaps in our knowledge about this group, prompt us to investigate their views at the cusp of political becoming. Reporting on a survey of 4,773 secondary school students in Nairobi, we argue that understanding this youth population’s perspectives and relationship to the state – ‘seeing like students’ – is critical to any understanding of Kenya today and its future. Our study shows empirically that secondary school youth in Nairobi are perceptive about the challenges facing the country, civically engaged, and hopeful about the future. With views that often differ by ethnicity, gender, or socio-economic background, our findings highlight the importance of acknowledging youths’ complex on-the-ground realities and challenging dominant discourses about youth.
虽然肯尼亚青年构成了肯尼亚选民的大多数,但他们通常要么被定型为罪犯,要么被边缘化,而不是被认真对待为政治上重要的参与者。青年在肯尼亚的重要性,以及我们对这一群体的了解差距,促使我们在政治变革的风口上调查他们的观点。在对内罗毕4,773名中学生的调查报告中,我们认为,了解这些年轻人的观点和与国家的关系——“像学生一样看问题”——对于了解肯尼亚的今天和未来至关重要。我们的研究从经验上表明,内罗毕的中学生对国家面临的挑战有敏锐的洞察力,积极参与公民活动,对未来充满希望。由于不同种族、性别或社会经济背景的观点往往不同,我们的研究结果强调了承认青年复杂的实际情况和挑战有关青年的主流话语的重要性。
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引用次数: 4
Patronage politics and parliamentary elections in Zambia’s one-party state c. 1983–88 1983 - 1988年,赞比亚一党制国家的赞助政治和议会选举
IF 1.4 3区 社会学 Q2 AREA STUDIES Pub Date : 2020-10-01 DOI: 10.1080/17531055.2020.1831146
Sishuwa Sishuwa
ABSTRACT Much of the scholarly work on politics in Zambia’s one-party state stresses the non-competitiveness of its parliamentary elections and holds that politicians were unable to cultivate the power of patronage because the political system was heavily weighted against the practice. This article uses a case study of Michael Sata, an individual politician who was twice elected Member of Parliament in Zambia’s capital city in the 1980s, to offer a two-fold reassessment of elections and patronage politics during the one-party state. First, it reveals how Sata successfully built links with leading business elites who, in the expectation that he would help them secure their businesses, financed his electoral campaigns. Second, it shows how Sata, who also simultaneously served as Governor of Lusaka, secured his re-election by using public resources to establish patronage support networks, expressed through the construction of housing units for his constituency’s burgeoning population. More broadly, the article demonstrates that it was possible under the one-party state to mobilise political support outside the party structures and build patronage networks that challenged the logic of centralised control. For the most part of one-party rule, however, these power bases were not visible and can only be uncovered through detailed case studies.
许多关于赞比亚一党制国家政治的学术著作强调其议会选举的非竞争性,并认为政治家无法培养赞助权,因为政治制度严重反对这种做法。本文以1980年代曾两度当选赞比亚首都国会议员的政治家萨塔(Michael Sata)为例,对一党制国家的选举和赞助政治进行了双重重新评估。首先,它揭示了萨塔是如何成功地与领先的商业精英建立联系的,这些人希望他能帮助他们保住生意,从而资助了他的竞选活动。其次,它展示了同时担任卢萨卡总督的萨塔如何利用公共资源建立庇护支持网络,通过为其选区迅速增长的人口建造住房来表达自己的连任。更广泛地说,这篇文章表明,在一党制国家下,动员政党结构之外的政治支持,建立挑战中央控制逻辑的庇护网络是可能的。然而,在一党统治的大部分时间里,这些权力基础是不可见的,只能通过详细的案例研究来揭示。
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引用次数: 3
‘Our time to recover’: young men, political mobilization, and personalized political ties during the 2017 primary elections in Nairobi “我们是时候恢复了”:2017年内罗毕初选期间的年轻人、政治动员和个性化政治关系
IF 1.4 3区 社会学 Q2 AREA STUDIES Pub Date : 2020-10-01 DOI: 10.1080/17531055.2020.1831849
Jacob Rasmussen, Naomi van Stapele
ABSTRACT In this article, we show how youth groups in Nairobi’s poor settlements engage with politics while carving out a political space for themselves and providing a livelihood. In doing so, we challenge dominant neo-patrimonial narratives of youth radicalization and instrumentalized youth mobilization in relation to electoral processes. Based on long-term ethnographic engagements, we argue for more complex dynamics between local youth groups and politicians; dynamics informed by differently situated understandings and diverse experiences of democracy. We follow the emic use of the term kupona (Kiswahili word meaning recovery or healing) to approach youth’s political engagements along lines of participation, recognition, and re-distribution, which all in different ways express demands for social recovery. Empirically, the article draws on events and examples from the primary elections in 2017, which provide a privileged frame for investigating local politics and responses to the recently initiated devolved government structure.
摘要在这篇文章中,我们展示了内罗毕贫困定居点的青年群体如何参与政治,同时为自己开辟政治空间并提供生计。在这样做的过程中,我们挑战了占主导地位的关于青年激进化和与选举进程有关的工具化青年动员的新世袭叙事。基于长期的民族志参与,我们主张当地青年团体和政治家之间存在更复杂的动态;对民主的不同理解和不同经历所带来的动力。我们遵循kupona(斯瓦希里语,意为恢复或治愈)一词的流行用法,以参与、认可和重新分配的方式来处理青年的政治参与,这些都以不同的方式表达了对社会恢复的需求。从经验上讲,这篇文章借鉴了2017年初选的事件和例子,这些事件和例子为调查地方政治和对最近启动的权力下放政府结构的反应提供了一个特权框架。
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