Jacqueline M Klopp
Biographic Data
| ID | 102906 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jacqueline M Klopp |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jacqueline M |
| FAMILY NAME | Klopp |
| SIGNATURE | KLOPP J M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Columbia University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3284-1715 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 270 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Balancing socio-economic development goals and coping with climate impacts
Urbanization, Legacies of Elite Capture, and Multi-Dimensional Exclusions in Ghana
Persisting housing challenges in Africa’s cities are often theorized as driven by rapid demographic expansion outstripping housing supply or by the urbanization of poverty which puts the cost of adequate and serviced housing beyond the reach of many urban dwellers. This theorization links the problem of inadequate supply and low quality of housing to ahistorical , apolitical factors such as the size and income/poverty characteristics of Africa’s …
Advancing equitable partnerships
Community-based organizations (CBOs) in frontline coastal communities grapple with social and environmental injustices compounded by climate change risks. In response, CBOs have developed deep expertise in climate adaptation tailored to their local communities. Yet these groups are often effectively excluded from resilience planning processes that are top-down and involve perfunctory and often performative consultations. This paper asks: What do …
Corruption, gender, and small‐scale cross‐border trade in East Africa
Land law reform in Kenya
Much of the promise of the good governance agenda in African countries since the 1990s rested on reforms aimed at ‘getting the institutions right’, sometimes by creating regulatory agencies that would be above the fray of partisan politics. Such ‘institutional fix’ strategies are often frustrated because the new institutions themselves are embedded in existing state structures and power relations. The article argues that implementing Kenya’s land…
Accessibility across transport modes and residential developments in Nairobi
The paratransit puzzle
Most citizens in African cities rely on semi-formal bus systems called paratransit. Yet these mobility systems tend to be invisible or marginal within formal urban planning processes: a “paratransit puzzle”. Through comparative analysis of recent master plans for Maputo and Nairobi, we concretely demonstrate this gap in official planning. We also show preliminary evidence from Maputo and Nairobi to suggest that collaborative paratransit mapping c…
Reform and counter-reform in Kenya's land governance
Fashioned within conquest, Kenya’s current system of land governance was designed to facilitate land expropriation for the few and powerful. Post-colonial elites never fundamentally reformed this system of concentrated legal and administrative power over land and continue to benefit from it. This article explores both recent efforts at land governance reform and the numerous ways that counter-reform resistance is occurring and currently gaining t…
The urban sustainable development goal
The digital matatu project
In many of the world's growing cities, semi-formal buses form the basis of public transit systems. However, little open and standardized data exist on these systems. The Digital Matatus project in Nairobi, Kenya set out to test whether the geo-locative capabilities of mobile technology could be used to collect data on a semi-formal transit system and whether that data could be translated into the General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS) data sta…
Globalisation and the urban studio
This paper explores some implications of globalisation for planning education and presents faculty and student reflections on an international urban studio and three policy workshops in the Municipality of Ruiru, located outside of Nairobi, Kenya. This learning was embedded in a long-term partnership between the Department of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Nairobi and Columbia University. We argue that carefully structured inter…
Toward Open Source Kenya
To make good decisions about the future direction of cities we need data to contextualize and make recommendations that are based on past results and potential models for the future. Yet access to information including geographic information systems (GIS) is challenging, particularly as data are often seen as a commodity or source of power by those who control it, a dynamic more severe in contexts like Kenya. By generating GIS data for our own tr…
Negotiating e-politics
Most e-government literature examines outcomes and potential benefits. Yet it is also important to explore the actual process of developing and implementing e-government systems in specific institutional and political environments. In this paper, we analyze the process of developing a w ebsite with the Municipal Council of Ruiru in Kenya, a country undergoing democratization and devolution of power. How to support a process that would enable the …
I Say to You
I Say to You is a timely book, a must-read as Kenya heads into a critical 2013 election. A rich, historically rooted account of the politics and politicking of Kenya's ‘big men’ from Kalenjin-speaking communities, it offers a strong analytical narrative that helps explain the roots and contemporary manifestations of ethno-nationalist sentiments in the region. It also explores how the Kalenjin political class has experienced, harnessed, and debate…
Towards a Political Economy of Transportation Policy and Practice in Nairobi
Kenya Struggles to Fix Itself
[T]he country has bought a short amount of time in which to entrench the new constitution, wield it for reform, and battle ghosts of the past
Deforestation and democratization
Current approaches for halting and reversing deforestation centrally involve better "environmental governance" over forests. Better public oversight and regulation of the forest commons is thus linked to democratization. Yet evidence suggests that in a number of important cases, democratization can accelerate deforestation. Using the cases of South Nandi and Karura Forests in Kenya, this article argues that to understand why requires more careful…
Refugees, the State and the Politics of Asylum in Africa
Recent statistics by UNHCR suggest that 15.6 million people, many from and in Africa, are currently refugees, forced to flee from their countries because of persecution. Research has shown us all too vividly the vulnerabilities and problematic conditions these refugees face and the profoundly inadequate responses to their plight at local and global levels. By pushing us to look much more carefully at the politics of refugees and asylum in Africa,…
Remembering the Destruction of Muoroto
Displacement is only a symptom of deeper causes ...’ (Francis Deng) Since colonial times, violent urban displacements have been part of politics in Africa. As ‘Operation Sweep up the Rubbish’, the m
University Crisis, Student Activism, and the Contemporary Struggle for Democracy in Kenya
Can Moral Ethnicity Trump Political Tribalism? The Struggle for Land and Nation in Kenya
Unity in diversity is paramount for stability and progress in this nation.” Nandi Leaders confronting threats of violence against migrants in the Rift Valley 1998. Unhappy with widespread irregularities and massive violence during the 1997 general election in Kenya, presidential runner -up Mwai Kibaki announced his intention to go to court with a petition against the president and the Electoral Commission. Shortly thereafter, a group of powerful …
Women Forget That Men Are the Masters
Ethnic Clashes' and Winning Elections
En 1991, sous la pression de protestataires internes et de donateurs, le Kenya à parti unique a adopté le multipartisme. La libéralisation politique a précipité les "affrontements ethniques" qui allaient éventuellement conduire à la mort de milliers de personnes et au déplacement de centaines de milliers d'autres. Cet article déclare que ces "affrontements ethniques" constituaient un aspect d'une contre-stratégie à la politique de libéralisation,…
Pilfering the Public
Africa Today - Volume 47, Number 1, Winter 2000
Norman Leys and Settler Colonialism in Kenya
In 1934 Upton Sinclair wrote that “it is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” Dr Norman Leys was not such a man. Despite being paid b...
Can Moral Ethnicity Trump Political Tribalism? The Struggle for Land and Nation in Kenya
Unity in diversity is paramount for stability and progress in this nation.” Nandi Leaders confronting threats of violence against migrants in the Rift Valley 1998. Unhappy with widespread irregularities and massive violence during the 1997 general election in Kenya, presidential runner -up Mwai Kibaki announced his intention to go to court with a petition against the president and the Electoral Commission. Shortly thereafter, a group of powerful …
Pilfering the Public
Africa Today - Volume 47, Number 1, Winter 2000
Ethnic Clashes' and Winning Elections
En 1991, sous la pression de protestataires internes et de donateurs, le Kenya à parti unique a adopté le multipartisme. La libéralisation politique a précipité les "affrontements ethniques" qui allaient éventuellement conduire à la mort de milliers de personnes et au déplacement de centaines de milliers d'autres. Cet article déclare que ces "affrontements ethniques" constituaient un aspect d'une contre-stratégie à la politique de libéralisation,…
The urban sustainable development goal
Deforestation and democratization
Current approaches for halting and reversing deforestation centrally involve better "environmental governance" over forests. Better public oversight and regulation of the forest commons is thus linked to democratization. Yet evidence suggests that in a number of important cases, democratization can accelerate deforestation. Using the cases of South Nandi and Karura Forests in Kenya, this article argues that to understand why requires more careful…
Remembering the Destruction of Muoroto
Displacement is only a symptom of deeper causes ...’ (Francis Deng) Since colonial times, violent urban displacements have been part of politics in Africa. As ‘Operation Sweep up the Rubbish’, the m
Land law reform in Kenya
Much of the promise of the good governance agenda in African countries since the 1990s rested on reforms aimed at ‘getting the institutions right’, sometimes by creating regulatory agencies that would be above the fray of partisan politics. Such ‘institutional fix’ strategies are often frustrated because the new institutions themselves are embedded in existing state structures and power relations. The article argues that implementing Kenya’s land…
Accessibility across transport modes and residential developments in Nairobi
Reform and counter-reform in Kenya's land governance
Fashioned within conquest, Kenya’s current system of land governance was designed to facilitate land expropriation for the few and powerful. Post-colonial elites never fundamentally reformed this system of concentrated legal and administrative power over land and continue to benefit from it. This article explores both recent efforts at land governance reform and the numerous ways that counter-reform resistance is occurring and currently gaining t…
The digital matatu project
In many of the world's growing cities, semi-formal buses form the basis of public transit systems. However, little open and standardized data exist on these systems. The Digital Matatus project in Nairobi, Kenya set out to test whether the geo-locative capabilities of mobile technology could be used to collect data on a semi-formal transit system and whether that data could be translated into the General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS) data sta…
University Crisis, Student Activism, and the Contemporary Struggle for Democracy in Kenya
Toward Open Source Kenya
To make good decisions about the future direction of cities we need data to contextualize and make recommendations that are based on past results and potential models for the future. Yet access to information including geographic information systems (GIS) is challenging, particularly as data are often seen as a commodity or source of power by those who control it, a dynamic more severe in contexts like Kenya. By generating GIS data for our own tr…
Advancing equitable partnerships
Community-based organizations (CBOs) in frontline coastal communities grapple with social and environmental injustices compounded by climate change risks. In response, CBOs have developed deep expertise in climate adaptation tailored to their local communities. Yet these groups are often effectively excluded from resilience planning processes that are top-down and involve perfunctory and often performative consultations. This paper asks: What do …
Pilfering the Public
Africa Today - Volume 47, Number 1, Winter 2000
Women Forget That Men Are the Masters
Ethnic Clashes' and Winning Elections
En 1991, sous la pression de protestataires internes et de donateurs, le Kenya à parti unique a adopté le multipartisme. La libéralisation politique a précipité les "affrontements ethniques" qui allaient éventuellement conduire à la mort de milliers de personnes et au déplacement de centaines de milliers d'autres. Cet article déclare que ces "affrontements ethniques" constituaient un aspect d'une contre-stratégie à la politique de libéralisation,…
University Crisis, Student Activism, and the Contemporary Struggle for Democracy in Kenya
Can Moral Ethnicity Trump Political Tribalism? The Struggle for Land and Nation in Kenya
Unity in diversity is paramount for stability and progress in this nation.” Nandi Leaders confronting threats of violence against migrants in the Rift Valley 1998. Unhappy with widespread irregularities and massive violence during the 1997 general election in Kenya, presidential runner -up Mwai Kibaki announced his intention to go to court with a petition against the president and the Electoral Commission. Shortly thereafter, a group of powerful …
Remembering the Destruction of Muoroto
Displacement is only a symptom of deeper causes ...’ (Francis Deng) Since colonial times, violent urban displacements have been part of politics in Africa. As ‘Operation Sweep up the Rubbish’, the m
Refugees, the State and the Politics of Asylum in Africa
Recent statistics by UNHCR suggest that 15.6 million people, many from and in Africa, are currently refugees, forced to flee from their countries because of persecution. Research has shown us all too vividly the vulnerabilities and problematic conditions these refugees face and the profoundly inadequate responses to their plight at local and global levels. By pushing us to look much more carefully at the politics of refugees and asylum in Africa,…
Towards a Political Economy of Transportation Policy and Practice in Nairobi
Kenya Struggles to Fix Itself
[T]he country has bought a short amount of time in which to entrench the new constitution, wield it for reform, and battle ghosts of the past
Deforestation and democratization
Current approaches for halting and reversing deforestation centrally involve better "environmental governance" over forests. Better public oversight and regulation of the forest commons is thus linked to democratization. Yet evidence suggests that in a number of important cases, democratization can accelerate deforestation. Using the cases of South Nandi and Karura Forests in Kenya, this article argues that to understand why requires more careful…
Negotiating e-politics
Most e-government literature examines outcomes and potential benefits. Yet it is also important to explore the actual process of developing and implementing e-government systems in specific institutional and political environments. In this paper, we analyze the process of developing a w ebsite with the Municipal Council of Ruiru in Kenya, a country undergoing democratization and devolution of power. How to support a process that would enable the …
I Say to You
I Say to You is a timely book, a must-read as Kenya heads into a critical 2013 election. A rich, historically rooted account of the politics and politicking of Kenya's ‘big men’ from Kalenjin-speaking communities, it offers a strong analytical narrative that helps explain the roots and contemporary manifestations of ethno-nationalist sentiments in the region. It also explores how the Kalenjin political class has experienced, harnessed, and debate…
Globalisation and the urban studio
This paper explores some implications of globalisation for planning education and presents faculty and student reflections on an international urban studio and three policy workshops in the Municipality of Ruiru, located outside of Nairobi, Kenya. This learning was embedded in a long-term partnership between the Department of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Nairobi and Columbia University. We argue that carefully structured inter…
Toward Open Source Kenya
To make good decisions about the future direction of cities we need data to contextualize and make recommendations that are based on past results and potential models for the future. Yet access to information including geographic information systems (GIS) is challenging, particularly as data are often seen as a commodity or source of power by those who control it, a dynamic more severe in contexts like Kenya. By generating GIS data for our own tr…
The digital matatu project
In many of the world's growing cities, semi-formal buses form the basis of public transit systems. However, little open and standardized data exist on these systems. The Digital Matatus project in Nairobi, Kenya set out to test whether the geo-locative capabilities of mobile technology could be used to collect data on a semi-formal transit system and whether that data could be translated into the General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS) data sta…
The paratransit puzzle
Most citizens in African cities rely on semi-formal bus systems called paratransit. Yet these mobility systems tend to be invisible or marginal within formal urban planning processes: a “paratransit puzzle”. Through comparative analysis of recent master plans for Maputo and Nairobi, we concretely demonstrate this gap in official planning. We also show preliminary evidence from Maputo and Nairobi to suggest that collaborative paratransit mapping c…
Reform and counter-reform in Kenya's land governance
Fashioned within conquest, Kenya’s current system of land governance was designed to facilitate land expropriation for the few and powerful. Post-colonial elites never fundamentally reformed this system of concentrated legal and administrative power over land and continue to benefit from it. This article explores both recent efforts at land governance reform and the numerous ways that counter-reform resistance is occurring and currently gaining t…
The urban sustainable development goal
Accessibility across transport modes and residential developments in Nairobi
Land law reform in Kenya
Much of the promise of the good governance agenda in African countries since the 1990s rested on reforms aimed at ‘getting the institutions right’, sometimes by creating regulatory agencies that would be above the fray of partisan politics. Such ‘institutional fix’ strategies are often frustrated because the new institutions themselves are embedded in existing state structures and power relations. The article argues that implementing Kenya’s land…
Corruption, gender, and small‐scale cross‐border trade in East Africa
Norman Leys and Settler Colonialism in Kenya
In 1934 Upton Sinclair wrote that “it is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” Dr Norman Leys was not such a man. Despite being paid b...
Urbanization, Legacies of Elite Capture, and Multi-Dimensional Exclusions in Ghana
Persisting housing challenges in Africa’s cities are often theorized as driven by rapid demographic expansion outstripping housing supply or by the urbanization of poverty which puts the cost of adequate and serviced housing beyond the reach of many urban dwellers. This theorization links the problem of inadequate supply and low quality of housing to ahistorical , apolitical factors such as the size and income/poverty characteristics of Africa’s …
Advancing equitable partnerships
Community-based organizations (CBOs) in frontline coastal communities grapple with social and environmental injustices compounded by climate change risks. In response, CBOs have developed deep expertise in climate adaptation tailored to their local communities. Yet these groups are often effectively excluded from resilience planning processes that are top-down and involve perfunctory and often performative consultations. This paper asks: What do …
Balancing socio-economic development goals and coping with climate impacts
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