Catherine Gateri
Biographic Data
| ID | 2079826 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Catherine Gateri |
| GIVEN NAMES | Catherine |
| FAMILY NAME | Gateri |
| SIGNATURE | GATERI C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Kenyatta University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8168-5184 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The information infrastructure of urbanisation
In Kenya, a key strategy to address the challenges of urbanisation has been the state's push to modernise its land records by creating digital Land Information Management Systems (LIMS). In this paper, we use the lens of ‘information infrastructures’ to understand how allotment letters are entangled with the digitalising state's desire for formalising land tenure and managing Kenyan urbanisation. By examining the political-technological-material …
Land use policy in the peri-urban district as Africa's ‘smart authoritarianism’? Exploring emergent governance challenges in the implementation of a mega real estate project at Konza, Kenya
A Growing Middle Class and Real Estate Development
Kileleshwa, située à cinq kilomètres du centre-ville de Nairobi, a connu une transformation immobilière phénoménale sous la forme d'appartements de grande hauteur remplaçant les bungalows initialement construits dans la région. Le quartier s'est imposé comme l'un des quartiers haut de gamme de Nairobi, alors principalement occupé par de hauts fonctionnaires. Les habitations sont principalement situées sur des parcelles spacieuses avec de belles p…
Contestation, negotiation, and experimentation
This paper examines diverse infrastructural interventions in the making of Ardhisasa, the Kenyan state's digital land information management platform, as a space of contestation, negotiation, and experimentation. We analyse the platformisation of governance through theories on liminality to explain the agency of various actors in shaping the digital state. We particularly zoom into the influence of two actors: the private actors in the land secto…
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…
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…
Contestation, negotiation, and experimentation
This paper examines diverse infrastructural interventions in the making of Ardhisasa, the Kenyan state's digital land information management platform, as a space of contestation, negotiation, and experimentation. We analyse the platformisation of governance through theories on liminality to explain the agency of various actors in shaping the digital state. We particularly zoom into the influence of two actors: the private actors in the land secto…
A Growing Middle Class and Real Estate Development
Kileleshwa, située à cinq kilomètres du centre-ville de Nairobi, a connu une transformation immobilière phénoménale sous la forme d'appartements de grande hauteur remplaçant les bungalows initialement construits dans la région. Le quartier s'est imposé comme l'un des quartiers haut de gamme de Nairobi, alors principalement occupé par de hauts fonctionnaires. Les habitations sont principalement situées sur des parcelles spacieuses avec de belles p…
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…
A Growing Middle Class and Real Estate Development
Kileleshwa, située à cinq kilomètres du centre-ville de Nairobi, a connu une transformation immobilière phénoménale sous la forme d'appartements de grande hauteur remplaçant les bungalows initialement construits dans la région. Le quartier s'est imposé comme l'un des quartiers haut de gamme de Nairobi, alors principalement occupé par de hauts fonctionnaires. Les habitations sont principalement situées sur des parcelles spacieuses avec de belles p…
Contestation, negotiation, and experimentation
This paper examines diverse infrastructural interventions in the making of Ardhisasa, the Kenyan state's digital land information management platform, as a space of contestation, negotiation, and experimentation. We analyse the platformisation of governance through theories on liminality to explain the agency of various actors in shaping the digital state. We particularly zoom into the influence of two actors: the private actors in the land secto…
Land use policy in the peri-urban district as Africa's ‘smart authoritarianism’? Exploring emergent governance challenges in the implementation of a mega real estate project at Konza, Kenya
The information infrastructure of urbanisation
In Kenya, a key strategy to address the challenges of urbanisation has been the state's push to modernise its land records by creating digital Land Information Management Systems (LIMS). In this paper, we use the lens of ‘information infrastructures’ to understand how allotment letters are entangled with the digitalising state's desire for formalising land tenure and managing Kenyan urbanisation. By examining the political-technological-material …
Political science (4 works) · Urban and Rural Development Challenges (4 works) · Geography (3 works) · Land Rights and Reforms (3 works) · Business (2 works) · Corporate governance (2 works) · Democracy (2 works) · Economics (2 works) · Environmental planning (2 works) · Law (2 works)