Publikationen
Books | Peer-reviewed journal articles | Chapters in edited volumes | Manuscripts under review | Other publications and outputs | Manuscripts in preparation
Books
Peasants to Paupers: Land, Class and Kinship in Central Kenya In: International Africa Library series at Cambridge University Press. (single-author monograph). [DOI]
Nairobi Becoming: a multi-authored ethnographic portrait of a 21st century African City. Volume 1: Security, Certainty and Contingency In: Punctum Books. [DOI]
Peer-reviewed journal articles
Timing Property: New ethnographic perspectives on property speculation, assetisation, and scarcity in ‘rentier capitalism’ In: Focaal: Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology. (Co-edited Theme Section).
Faith in paper? Title deeds as temporal fix on Nairobi’s real-estate frontier In: Focaal: Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology (Article in Theme Section).
Alienating ‘dead capital’, eating moral principle: Patriarchal obligation, land sale, and desires for consumption on Kenya’s real-estate frontier In: Cultural Anthropology.
‘Land Makes Me Feel So Secure’: Property, Dependence and Escape from ‘Wageless Life’ on Nairobi’s Peri-urbanizing Peripheries In: Economy & Society 54(3): 480–501. [DOI]
‘We are all hypocrites here’: Patronage as predation in the dirty game” of Kenyan elections In: Current Anthropology 65 (6): 1060-1083. [DOI]
Hustlers and Dynasties: Confronting Patrimonial Capital in Kenya’s 2022 Elections’ In: Anthropology Today 39 (5): 7-10. [DOI]
Ironies of Accomplishment: Negative Aspiration, Economic Resentment and the Myth of the Middle-class on Nairobi’s new urban outskirts In: Africa: Journal of the International Africa Institute 93 (4): 476-495. [DOI]
Hustler Populism, Anti-Jubilee Backlash and Economic Justice in Kenya’s 2022 elections In: African Affairs 122 (487): 205–224. [DOI]
‘He who relies on friends and relatives dies poor’: Stratagems of civility in peri-urban Kenya In: Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 29 (2): 326-346. [DOI]
Impatient Accumulation, Immediate Consumption: Problems with Money and Hope in Central Kenya In: Social Analysis: The International Journal of Anthropology 64 (1): 44-62. [DOI]
Before there is power, there is the country”: Civic nationalism and political mobilisation amongst Kenya’s opposition coalitions, 2013-2018 In: Journal of Modern African Studies 57 (4): 541-561. [DOI]
The Buffalo and the Squirrel: Moral authority and the limits of patronage in Kiambu County's
gubernatorial race In: Journal of Eastern African Studies 13 (2): 353-370. [DOI]
The Solitude of the Stance: The Bodily Autology of Gym-work and Boxing in an Essex Town In: Suomen Antropologi: The Journal of the Finnish Anthropological Society. [DOI]
Chapters in edited volumes
Economic anthropology In: Oxford Bibliographies Online in African Studies. Ed. Paul Zeleza. New York: Oxford University Press. [DOI]
Manuscripts under review
Under review. ‘Touching the tarmac’: Embellishing assets of allure on Kenya’s real-estate frontier In: Economic Anthropology.
Other publications and outputs (review essays, replies, blog posts, book reviews)
Claiming ‘The People’: Youth Booms, Ailing Authoritarians and ‘Populist’ Politics in Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania” In: Ifri Studies, Ifri (Report for French Institute of International Relations). [DOI]
There Is No Such Thing as an African Value of Dependence & What Is the Matter with Values?: A Reply to Joel Robbins & A Response to Lockwood In: Social Analysis, 69(1), 82-108. [DOI]
Book review: Roelofs, P. Good Governance in Nigeria: Rethinking Accountability and Transparency in the Twenty-first Century In: Progress in Development Studies, 25(1), 64-66. [DOI]
Kenya Unrest: Ruto Awakened Class Politics That Now Threatens to Engulf Him In: The Conversation, 3 July. [DOI]
Non-Existent Plots”: Land Fraud in Nairobi’s Construction Boom In: Anthropology News website, September 3 (Accessed 26 September 2024). [DOI]
The rebirth of anti-elite land politics in Ruto’s Kenya In: African Arguments (Accessed 17 July 2023). [DOI]
Pressure to Succeed: From Prosperity, Stress (A reflection on aspiration in the new Kenya) In: Developing Economics (Accessed 20 March 2022). [DOI]
Wolf in Shepherd’s Garb: Bishop Gakuyo and Stolen Middle Class Dreams In: The Elepha (Accessed 3August 2021). [DOI]
Pitfalls and promises in the anthropology of Africa. Review essay In: Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. [DOI]
Kenya: how stark inequality frustrates the dreams of Nairobi’s jobless young men. Article commissioned by In: The Conversation UK (Accessed 15 October 2020). [DOI]
Review of The Middle Class in Mozambique: The State and the Politics of Transformation in Southern Africa In: by Jason Sumich. Journal of Southern African Studies 45 (6): 1186-1188. [DOI]
Review of Mobile Secrets: Youth, Intimacy and the Politics of Pretence in Mozambique by Julie Archambault In: Allegra Lab: Anthropology, Law, Art, World (Accessed 28 June 2019). [DOI]
A year of two elections In: Allegra Lab: Anthropology, Law, Art, World (Accessed 23 March 2018). [DOI]
Review of The politics of distinction: African elites from colonialism to liberation in a Namibian frontier town In: by Mattia Fumanti. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 23 (2): 422-451.
Manuscripts in preparation
‘Recursive Discontent: Kenya’s Democracy and the Politics of Surplus People’ Book manuscript in preparation.