Examining public discussion in urban Kenya, both in-person and online, this book sheds light on the role public discussion plays in politics and how social media affects political movements, providing timely insights into everyday politics in Africa's digital age.
Examining public discussion in urban Kenya, both in-person and online, this book sheds light on the role public discussion plays in politics and how social media affects political movements, providing timely insights into everyday politics in Africa's digital age.
Stephanie Diepeveen is a Researcher at the University of Cambridge. She is co-editor of the Journal of Eastern African Studies special issue on 'Publics in Africa in a Digital Age'. Stephanie was previously a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Darwin College, Cambridge (2017-2020). She has been researching everyday expression of politics in Kenya since 2008, both individually and through interdisciplinary collaborations, supported, among others, by UKRI-GCRF, the Alborada Research Fund and the Centre of Governance and Human Rights, Cambridge.
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Part I. Re-thinking Publics from Kenya: 1. Introduction 2. The history of publics in Mombasa: people, media and the state Part II. Characterising Publics: 3. Publics in the streets: Mombasa's street parliaments 4. Publics in civil society and online: Mombasa's youth parliaments Part III. Situating Publics in Time and Space: 5. Our turn to starve: material insecurity, idleness and publics 6. Publics and the contested state of land in Kenya 7. The obfuscation of spatial constraints on Facebook Part IV. The Power of Publics: 8. Popular politics and publics during the 2013 general elections 9. In the presence of fear: violence and publics in Kenya 10. The individual spectator and the role of imagination in publics 11. Conclusion.
Part I. Re-thinking Publics from Kenya: 1. Introduction 2. The history of publics in Mombasa: people, media and the state Part II. Characterising Publics: 3. Publics in the streets: Mombasa's street parliaments 4. Publics in civil society and online: Mombasa's youth parliaments Part III. Situating Publics in Time and Space: 5. Our turn to starve: material insecurity, idleness and publics 6. Publics and the contested state of land in Kenya 7. The obfuscation of spatial constraints on Facebook Part IV. The Power of Publics: 8. Popular politics and publics during the 2013 general elections 9. In the presence of fear: violence and publics in Kenya 10. The individual spectator and the role of imagination in publics 11. Conclusion.
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