| Title | Frontmatter |
|---|---|
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.53288/0418.1.01 |
| Landing page | https://punctumbooks.com/titles/nairobi-becoming-security-uncertainty-contingency/ |
| License | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ |
| Publisher | punctum books |
| Published on | 2024-02-09 |
| Page range | pp. 1–13 |
| Print length | 13 pages |
| Language | English (Original) |
Tessa Diphoorn is Associate Professor at the Department of Cultural Anthropology at Utrecht University. Her research and teaching focuses on security, violence, and sovereignty in Kenya and South Africa. She published Twilight Policing: Private Security and Violence in Urban South Africa (University of California Press, 2016) and is co-editor of Security Blurs: The Politics of Plural Security Provision (Routledge, 2019) with Erella Grassiani.
Joost Fontein is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Johannesburg. Between 2014 and 2018 he was Director of the British Institute in Eastern Africa in Nairobi, on secondment from the University of Edinburgh. He published The Silence of Great Zimbabwe: Contested Landscapes and the Power of Heritage (UCL Press, 2006), Remaking Mutirikwi: Landscape, Water and Belonging (James Currey, 2015), and The Politics of the Dead in Zimbabwe, 2000–2020: Bones, Rumours and Spirits (James Currey, 2022). He is currently editor of Africa, the journal of the International Africa Institute.
Peter Lockwood is a Hallsworth Early Career Research Fellow in Political Economy at the University of Manchester. He is completing a book about the crisis of “wasted men” in central Kenya: the region’s landscape of masculine destitution, its roots in the collapse of peasant livelihoods and lost hopes for middle-class futures. His published work has appeared in the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Social Analysis, and African Affairs.
Constance Smith is Lecturer and UKRI Future Leader Fellow in Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester. Her research explores landscapes of architecture, time, and urban change with a particular interest in participatory and practice-led research in collaboration with artists, communities, and urban practitioners. Her work has been widely published and has featured in several exhibitions, including at the National Museums of Kenya.