Jethron Ayumbah Akallah
Biographic Data
| ID | 1466859 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jethron Ayumbah Akallah |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jethron Ayumbah |
| FAMILY NAME | Akallah |
| SIGNATURE | AKALLAH J A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Maseno University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Participatory Budgeting, Disengagement and Political Parties
Participatory budgeting (PB) was first implemented in Porto Alegre (Brazil) in 1989 as a measure to reduce poverty and decrease child mortality. Since then, it has spread all over the world. It empowers citizens in political action, increases their awareness of the social and political shortcomings of their communities, and allows them to decide how a part of the local budget should be spent. Despite these benefits, people generally rarely engage…
Roundtable
In the face of diverse and uneven environmental crises across the globe, ongoing efforts to "globalize" the history of technology field may be considered urgent. In doing so, however, we risk uncritically exporting the norms and practices of a predominantly Western-centric field-an arguably colonial act. This roundtable explores four areas of contention: how to conceptualize "the global"; why, how and with whom to study "history" amid threatened …
Urban way of life as survival
Southern cities have become increasingly inscribed in broader postcolonial and neoliberal development forces. In tandem with global pandemics, digital threats, and migration and climate crises, these forces have posed critical implications for all residents, decimating the middle class, widening the gap between elites and masses, deepening the cost of living for the urban majority, and making it harder to rise through the ladder. In such an envir…
Plug-in urbanism
Across Africa, cities have become fodder for grand-scale foreign investments and redevelopment projects signifying a distinct phenomenon synonymous with a new kind of urbanism. This paper offers a critical commentary on the proliferation of new infrastructure plans tailored as policy, technological fixes and solutions to urbanisation challenges, both real and perceived. We stir a conversation around the notion of ‘plug-in urbanism’: first, as an …
Wells and Boreholes
In most Global South cities, the majority of urban residents, especially those in informal settlements, continue to survive off the main infrastructural grid. In Nairobi for instance, over 60% of residents live in informal settlements, defined by widespread squalor and shortage of key infrastructures for everyday living. Despite their existence as unplanned, these informal settlements have witnessed some forms of innovation around alternative tec…
A History of Water Engineering and Management in Yemen
Reviewed by: A History of Water Engineering and Management in Yemen: Material Remains and Textual Foundations by Ingrid Hehmeyer Jethron Ayumbah Akallah (bio) A History of Water Engineering and Management in Yemen: Material Remains and Textual Foundations By Ingrid Hehmeyer. Leiden: Brill, 2019. Pp. 319. Recently, history of technology as a discipline and the general focus in science and technology studies (STS) have witnessed shifts toward under…
Women in Colonial East Africa
Women in Colonial East Africa
Technologies from Below
Plug-in urbanism
Across Africa, cities have become fodder for grand-scale foreign investments and redevelopment projects signifying a distinct phenomenon synonymous with a new kind of urbanism. This paper offers a critical commentary on the proliferation of new infrastructure plans tailored as policy, technological fixes and solutions to urbanisation challenges, both real and perceived. We stir a conversation around the notion of ‘plug-in urbanism’: first, as an …
Urban way of life as survival
Southern cities have become increasingly inscribed in broader postcolonial and neoliberal development forces. In tandem with global pandemics, digital threats, and migration and climate crises, these forces have posed critical implications for all residents, decimating the middle class, widening the gap between elites and masses, deepening the cost of living for the urban majority, and making it harder to rise through the ladder. In such an envir…
Wells and Boreholes
In most Global South cities, the majority of urban residents, especially those in informal settlements, continue to survive off the main infrastructural grid. In Nairobi for instance, over 60% of residents live in informal settlements, defined by widespread squalor and shortage of key infrastructures for everyday living. Despite their existence as unplanned, these informal settlements have witnessed some forms of innovation around alternative tec…
Technologies from Below
Women in Colonial East Africa
Women in Colonial East Africa
Wells and Boreholes
In most Global South cities, the majority of urban residents, especially those in informal settlements, continue to survive off the main infrastructural grid. In Nairobi for instance, over 60% of residents live in informal settlements, defined by widespread squalor and shortage of key infrastructures for everyday living. Despite their existence as unplanned, these informal settlements have witnessed some forms of innovation around alternative tec…
A History of Water Engineering and Management in Yemen
Reviewed by: A History of Water Engineering and Management in Yemen: Material Remains and Textual Foundations by Ingrid Hehmeyer Jethron Ayumbah Akallah (bio) A History of Water Engineering and Management in Yemen: Material Remains and Textual Foundations By Ingrid Hehmeyer. Leiden: Brill, 2019. Pp. 319. Recently, history of technology as a discipline and the general focus in science and technology studies (STS) have witnessed shifts toward under…
Urban way of life as survival
Southern cities have become increasingly inscribed in broader postcolonial and neoliberal development forces. In tandem with global pandemics, digital threats, and migration and climate crises, these forces have posed critical implications for all residents, decimating the middle class, widening the gap between elites and masses, deepening the cost of living for the urban majority, and making it harder to rise through the ladder. In such an envir…
Plug-in urbanism
Across Africa, cities have become fodder for grand-scale foreign investments and redevelopment projects signifying a distinct phenomenon synonymous with a new kind of urbanism. This paper offers a critical commentary on the proliferation of new infrastructure plans tailored as policy, technological fixes and solutions to urbanisation challenges, both real and perceived. We stir a conversation around the notion of ‘plug-in urbanism’: first, as an …
Participatory Budgeting, Disengagement and Political Parties
Participatory budgeting (PB) was first implemented in Porto Alegre (Brazil) in 1989 as a measure to reduce poverty and decrease child mortality. Since then, it has spread all over the world. It empowers citizens in political action, increases their awareness of the social and political shortcomings of their communities, and allows them to decide how a part of the local budget should be spent. Despite these benefits, people generally rarely engage…
Roundtable
In the face of diverse and uneven environmental crises across the globe, ongoing efforts to "globalize" the history of technology field may be considered urgent. In doing so, however, we risk uncritically exporting the norms and practices of a predominantly Western-centric field-an arguably colonial act. This roundtable explores four areas of contention: how to conceptualize "the global"; why, how and with whom to study "history" amid threatened …
Economics (5 works) · Geography (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Urban and Rural Development Challenges (5 works) · Economic growth (4 works) · Political economy (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Water Governance and Infrastructure (4 works) · Law (3 works)