Jeremia Njeru
Biographic Data
| ID | 3082201 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jeremia Njeru |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jeremia |
| FAMILY NAME | Njeru |
| SIGNATURE | NJERU J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Central College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 54 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Sunlight and free markets
Urban political ecology (UPE) provides an appropriate framework to consider the ways in which natural elements and concepts of nature have been incorporated into built environments, because of its emphasis on and elaboration of the concept of socio-natures and its focus on how the costs and benefits of these natural elements are apportioned between people of different classes in cities. This article considers how reformers’ ideas about nature sha…
Sanitation
With an estimated 60 percent of its urban residents lacking access to good sanitation, sub‐Saharan Africa is at the center of the global sanitation crisis. This entry describes the challenges of and prospects for solving urban sanitation problems in the region and highlights the factors that have contributed to the problems, including rapid population growth, colonial legacies of urban sanitation provision, and neoliberal restructuring. The entry…
Donor-driven’ neoliberal reform processes and urban environmental change in Kenya
In this article, I heed the call by some scholars to focus on ‘actually existing neoliberalism to better understand how neoliberal processes play out in particular places and times. Through the lenses of urban political ecology, I explore the environmental impacts in Kenya of what I term ‘donor-driven’ neoliberal reform processes using the 1990’s privatization of Karura Forest in Nairobi as an entry point. My findings suggest that the regime of f…
Defying' democratization and environmental protection in Kenya
For the City Yet to Come
(2006). For the City Yet to Come: Changing African Life in Four Cities. AbdouMaliq Simone; Metropolitan Phoenix: Place Making and Community Building in the Desert. Patricia Gober; Urban Informality: Transnaitonal Perspectives from the Middle East, Latin America, and South Asia. Ananya Roy and Nezar AlSayyad, eds.. Urban Geography: Vol. 27, No. 4, pp. 388-392
The urban political ecology of plastic bag waste problem in Nairobi, Kenya
The urban political ecology of plastic bag waste problem in Nairobi, Kenya
Defying' democratization and environmental protection in Kenya
Donor-driven’ neoliberal reform processes and urban environmental change in Kenya
In this article, I heed the call by some scholars to focus on ‘actually existing neoliberalism to better understand how neoliberal processes play out in particular places and times. Through the lenses of urban political ecology, I explore the environmental impacts in Kenya of what I term ‘donor-driven’ neoliberal reform processes using the 1990’s privatization of Karura Forest in Nairobi as an entry point. My findings suggest that the regime of f…
Sunlight and free markets
Urban political ecology (UPE) provides an appropriate framework to consider the ways in which natural elements and concepts of nature have been incorporated into built environments, because of its emphasis on and elaboration of the concept of socio-natures and its focus on how the costs and benefits of these natural elements are apportioned between people of different classes in cities. This article considers how reformers’ ideas about nature sha…
For the City Yet to Come
(2006). For the City Yet to Come: Changing African Life in Four Cities. AbdouMaliq Simone; Metropolitan Phoenix: Place Making and Community Building in the Desert. Patricia Gober; Urban Informality: Transnaitonal Perspectives from the Middle East, Latin America, and South Asia. Ananya Roy and Nezar AlSayyad, eds.. Urban Geography: Vol. 27, No. 4, pp. 388-392
The urban political ecology of plastic bag waste problem in Nairobi, Kenya
Defying' democratization and environmental protection in Kenya
Donor-driven’ neoliberal reform processes and urban environmental change in Kenya
In this article, I heed the call by some scholars to focus on ‘actually existing neoliberalism to better understand how neoliberal processes play out in particular places and times. Through the lenses of urban political ecology, I explore the environmental impacts in Kenya of what I term ‘donor-driven’ neoliberal reform processes using the 1990’s privatization of Karura Forest in Nairobi as an entry point. My findings suggest that the regime of f…
Sanitation
With an estimated 60 percent of its urban residents lacking access to good sanitation, sub‐Saharan Africa is at the center of the global sanitation crisis. This entry describes the challenges of and prospects for solving urban sanitation problems in the region and highlights the factors that have contributed to the problems, including rapid population growth, colonial legacies of urban sanitation provision, and neoliberal restructuring. The entry…
Sunlight and free markets
Urban political ecology (UPE) provides an appropriate framework to consider the ways in which natural elements and concepts of nature have been incorporated into built environments, because of its emphasis on and elaboration of the concept of socio-natures and its focus on how the costs and benefits of these natural elements are apportioned between people of different classes in cities. This article considers how reformers’ ideas about nature sha…
Geography (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Water Governance and Infrastructure (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Economics (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political ecology (3 works)