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Shameful or shameless? Anxieties about mothers and women's autonomy on the Central African Copperbelt, 1956–1964

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article deals with anxiety about and the shaming of modern urban mothers and wives on the mines of the late colonial Central African Copperbelt. Women's various labours and public presence lead to ambivalent depictions, such as the ‘careless mother’, that were part of a broader array of anxieties about women's autonomy on the mines ...
Stephanie Lämmert
wiley   +1 more source

Nairobi Becoming

open access: yes
Echoing the edgy, disjunctive, ever-emergent city of Nairobi that it explores, Nairobi Becoming: Security, Uncertainty, Contingency strives to be several things-in-the-making. It is a historically and anthropologically minded examination of a shifting cityscape, an experimental, collaborative exercise in curated juxtaposition and assemblage, and an ...
Fontein, Joost   +3 more
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‘Work locally but think globally’: The Alliance Against Women's Oppression and transnational multiracial grassroots activism in the 1980s

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the transnational history of the Alliance Against Women's Oppression (AAWO), a multiracial and Marxist US women's organisation founded in California in 1979. By focusing on the political connection between the AAWO, the so‐called ‘Third World’ and other international organisations such as the Women International ...
Bruno Walter Renato Toscano
wiley   +1 more source

South Asian Bodies at British Borders in the 1970s: From the Ugandan Asian ‘Stateless Husbands’ to ‘Virginity Testing’

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article looks at two critical moments in British immigration – the case of the ‘stateless’ Ugandan Asian husbands, whose wives successfully argued for their entry in Britain in 1973 and the ‘virginity test’ performed on Mrs K at Heathrow Airport in 1979.
Antara Datta, Jinal Parekh
wiley   +1 more source

Profitability, Investment Factors and Trading Volume Adjustment on Equity Risk Premium an Empirical Evidence from Nairobi Stock Exchange

open access: yesJournal of Accounting and Finance in Emerging Economies
Purpose: Equity markets have always fascinated and challenged financial researchers with their complexities and broad implications. This Study investigated the effect of profitability measures and investment factors on the Equity Premium of companies ...
George Shibanda   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

EXPERIENCING MORE‐THAN‐PANDEMIC WATERSCAPES: An Intra‐urban Comparison of Water Practices and Geographies in Nairobi

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract While many African cities, such as Nairobi, fared comparatively well during the pandemic years, urban residents still faced compounded uncertainties and an unequal distribution of burdens that were infrastructurally co‐mediated, for example, within and through place‐specific waterscapes and their socio‐technical infrastructures.
Moritz Kasper   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Ethnic Hate Speech was Networked: What Social Media Online Political Discussions Reveal about the 2013 General Elections in Kenya / El discurso étnico del odio se difundió por las redes. Análisis de las discusiones políticas en las redes sociales dur

open access: yesIndex Comunicación, 2013
This chapter examines if the increased political discussions on social media especially Twitter and Face Book before and after the March 4th, 2013 general elections in Kenya translated to a more robust Alternative Public Sphere that broke the hegemony of
Jacinta Mwende Maweu   +1 more
doaj  

Isolement de Salmonella nairobi d'un zébu Indu-Brasil en République du Zaïre

open access: yesRevue d’Elevage et de Médecine Vétérinaire des Pays Tropicaux, 1975
Une entérobactérie ayant les caractéristiques d'une salmonelle est isolée en culture pure des prélèvements provenant d'un taurillon de race Indu-Brasil, mort quinze jours après le déclenchement d'une entérite aiguë.
F. Bertèle, J.P. Adriansens
doaj   +1 more source

THE URBANOLOGISTS COME TO TOWN: Professional Life and Work in the Urban Solutions Industry

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article charts the upsurge of an eclectic global community of professionals new to the field of urban policy and governance, animated by playful and celebratory attitudes towards cities and urbanization: the urbanologists. It contributes to debates in critical urban theory and critical ethnographies of technology to problematize ...
Rachel Bok
wiley   +1 more source

Brief communication: effect of a one-stop-shop intervention on COVID-19 vaccine uptake among people living with HIV in Nairobi and Kajiado counties, Kenya

open access: yesAIDS Research and Therapy
People living with HIV (PLHIV) are at increased risk of COVID-19 related morbidity and mortality. We describe the effect of a ‘One-Stop-Shop’ intervention on COVID-19 vaccine uptake among PLHIV in Nairobi and Kajiado Counties, Kenya.
Njoki Njuguna   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

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