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Kirstine Strøh Varming

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ID202838
NAMEKirstine Strøh Varming
GIVEN NAMESKirstine Strøh
FAMILY NAMEVarming
SIGNATUREVARMING K S
AFFILIATIONSRoskilde University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS2
TOTAL CITATIONS8
AUTHOR COUNT2
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2020
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2021
H-INDEX2
  • Contested practices of trade and taxation

    Kirstine Strøh Varming•ARTICLE•Journal of Eastern African Studies•2021•Cited by: 5•References: 34

    Taxation represents a claim to statehood and plays a vital role in processes of mutual recognition between subjects and the state. Debates on the benefits of taxing the informal economy have stressed the mutual benefits of entering into such formalized contracts of recognition. However, based on eight months of ethnographic fieldwork in Eastleigh, Nairobi, I will show how fixed categories of formality and legitimacy are inadequate for capturing t…

  • Urban subjects

    Kirstine Strøh Varming•ARTICLE•African Studies•2020•Cited by: 3•References: 44

    After more than a century of mutually constructed strangerhood, relations between the Somali community and the Kenyan state are strained. Following the concomitant developments of the devolution of power, an influx of refugees and a growing securitisation discourse, Somalis in Kenya today take up an ambiguous position between marginalisation and increasing political and economic visibility (Carrier & Lochery 2013; Scharrer 2018; Weitzberg 2017). …

  • Contested practices of trade and taxation

    Kirstine Strøh Varming•ARTICLE•Journal of Eastern African Studies•2021•Cited by: 5•References: 34

    Taxation represents a claim to statehood and plays a vital role in processes of mutual recognition between subjects and the state. Debates on the benefits of taxing the informal economy have stressed the mutual benefits of entering into such formalized contracts of recognition. However, based on eight months of ethnographic fieldwork in Eastleigh, Nairobi, I will show how fixed categories of formality and legitimacy are inadequate for capturing t…

  • Urban subjects

    Kirstine Strøh Varming•ARTICLE•African Studies•2020•Cited by: 3•References: 44

    After more than a century of mutually constructed strangerhood, relations between the Somali community and the Kenyan state are strained. Following the concomitant developments of the devolution of power, an influx of refugees and a growing securitisation discourse, Somalis in Kenya today take up an ambiguous position between marginalisation and increasing political and economic visibility (Carrier & Lochery 2013; Scharrer 2018; Weitzberg 2017). …

  • Urban subjects

    Kirstine Strøh Varming•ARTICLE•African Studies•2020•Cited by: 3•References: 44

    After more than a century of mutually constructed strangerhood, relations between the Somali community and the Kenyan state are strained. Following the concomitant developments of the devolution of power, an influx of refugees and a growing securitisation discourse, Somalis in Kenya today take up an ambiguous position between marginalisation and increasing political and economic visibility (Carrier & Lochery 2013; Scharrer 2018; Weitzberg 2017). …

  • Contested practices of trade and taxation

    Kirstine Strøh Varming•ARTICLE•Journal of Eastern African Studies•2021•Cited by: 5•References: 34

    Taxation represents a claim to statehood and plays a vital role in processes of mutual recognition between subjects and the state. Debates on the benefits of taxing the informal economy have stressed the mutual benefits of entering into such formalized contracts of recognition. However, based on eight months of ethnographic fieldwork in Eastleigh, Nairobi, I will show how fixed categories of formality and legitimacy are inadequate for capturing t…

Political science (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (1 work) · Corporate governance (1 work) · Economic system (1 work) · Economics (1 work) · Epistemology (1 work) · Ethnography (1 work) · Ethnology (1 work) · Finance (1 work)

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