This PhD thesis aims at analysing the place within the city of everyday security actors in Nairobi, Kenya. I call them “veilleurs” (sentinels of the city), playing on the double meaning of the word in French : referring both to their professional activity (watching over the city) and their feeling of living a passive life (watching all day long can be considered as a non-action). The study focuses on two groups in particular : private security guards at the gate of residential compounds in the planned city, and youthgroups members in slum areas. Adopting an individual and everyday-centred approach, this work fits in with the recent renewal of security studies. For the last ten years, those have been advocating a closer attention to “micro” ...
International audienceBased on an ethnography conducted in the urban margins of Dakar (Senegal) and ...
Cities are made up of assemblages of incoherent wholes which co-exist together in a seemingly placid...
After the post-election violence in Kenya 2007/2008, Nairobi has witnessed an increased society of f...
This PhD thesis aims at analysing the place within the city of everyday security actors in Nairobi, ...
Cette thèse porte sur la place dans la ville des acteurs quotidiens de la sécurité à Nairobi, au Ken...
This dissertation contributes to public and scholarly discourse around urban sociality in Africa. Un...
After the terror attack at Nairobi’s Westgate Mall in September 2013, the Kenyan security sector exp...
This work is a study of security-driven social transformation. Over the span of five historical and ...
Rapid urbanisation in the global South has prompted attention to the causes and dynamics of urban vi...
Abstract: In recent years, Kenya has experienced a series of devastating terrorist attacks, includin...
How is it possible to study the ‘cityness’ of cities, their particular character and the locally spe...
Depuis le début des années 1970, Nairobi a pris une place centrale dans la fiction kenyane. Ville où...
This study looks at how political power has imagined-and-imaged itself in Nairobi’s city centre. It ...
In this article, I show how the work of heterogeneous security and policing assemblages in Nairobi h...
International audienceBased on an ethnography conducted in the urban margins of Dakar (Senegal) and ...
Cities are made up of assemblages of incoherent wholes which co-exist together in a seemingly placid...
After the post-election violence in Kenya 2007/2008, Nairobi has witnessed an increased society of f...
This PhD thesis aims at analysing the place within the city of everyday security actors in Nairobi, ...
Cette thèse porte sur la place dans la ville des acteurs quotidiens de la sécurité à Nairobi, au Ken...
This dissertation contributes to public and scholarly discourse around urban sociality in Africa. Un...
After the terror attack at Nairobi’s Westgate Mall in September 2013, the Kenyan security sector exp...
This work is a study of security-driven social transformation. Over the span of five historical and ...
Rapid urbanisation in the global South has prompted attention to the causes and dynamics of urban vi...
Abstract: In recent years, Kenya has experienced a series of devastating terrorist attacks, includin...
How is it possible to study the ‘cityness’ of cities, their particular character and the locally spe...
Depuis le début des années 1970, Nairobi a pris une place centrale dans la fiction kenyane. Ville où...
This study looks at how political power has imagined-and-imaged itself in Nairobi’s city centre. It ...
In this article, I show how the work of heterogeneous security and policing assemblages in Nairobi h...
International audienceBased on an ethnography conducted in the urban margins of Dakar (Senegal) and ...
Cities are made up of assemblages of incoherent wholes which co-exist together in a seemingly placid...
After the post-election violence in Kenya 2007/2008, Nairobi has witnessed an increased society of f...