Roseanne Njiru
Biographic Data
| ID | 317074 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Roseanne Njiru |
| GIVEN NAMES | Roseanne |
| FAMILY NAME | Njiru |
| SIGNATURE | NJIRU R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Catholic University of Eastern Africa |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
I am a culprit’: Neoliberal public health discourses versus social risks for HIV within marriages in Kenya
Rates of HIV within marriages in Kenya remain high. While critical public health scholars have argued that socio-structural contexts shape HIV vulnerability, public health emphasizes neoliberal health management approaches that prioritize individual responsibility to avoid HIV risks. This article examines Kenya’s marital fidelity campaign as a manifestation of neoliberal health governance techniques. It considers the sexual morality of the campai…
Social networks, gender and HIV within marriages in Kenya
Gender inequalities drive the HIV risk within marriages in Kenya, yet strategies to combat the spread of HIV are limited by their emphasis on the individual or dyadic relationship rather than the wider social-cultural relations that shape gender relations within marriage. This study explores how couples' social networks and spaces of interactions are implicated in the (re)production of gender and gender relations and how this, consequently, shape…
As a woman I cannot just leave the house: Gendered spaces and HIV vulnerability in marriages in Kenya
This article analyses how spaces are implicated in extramarital sex and HIV transmission in marriage. Drawing on the experiences and practices of married women and men in Kenya, we demonstrate how intersectionality is expressed through the social organization of space to shape particular patterns of femininity and masculinity and enable, mostly, men’s infidelity and the possibility of the HIV risk. HIV mitigation policies focus mostly on altering…
Outsiders in their own nation: Electoral violence and politics of 'internal' displacement in Kenya
This article foregrounds the overlapping continuum of local to global fault lines that structure the human security experiences of internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Kenya. Drawing on data from the 2007-2008 electoral violence-induced displacement of ethnic minorities in the Rift Valley region, the article discusses how the intersections of ethnicity, national politics, land rights, and global humanitarian politics on displacement positioned …
As a woman I cannot just leave the house: Gendered spaces and HIV vulnerability in marriages in Kenya
This article analyses how spaces are implicated in extramarital sex and HIV transmission in marriage. Drawing on the experiences and practices of married women and men in Kenya, we demonstrate how intersectionality is expressed through the social organization of space to shape particular patterns of femininity and masculinity and enable, mostly, men’s infidelity and the possibility of the HIV risk. HIV mitigation policies focus mostly on altering…
Outsiders in their own nation: Electoral violence and politics of 'internal' displacement in Kenya
This article foregrounds the overlapping continuum of local to global fault lines that structure the human security experiences of internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Kenya. Drawing on data from the 2007-2008 electoral violence-induced displacement of ethnic minorities in the Rift Valley region, the article discusses how the intersections of ethnicity, national politics, land rights, and global humanitarian politics on displacement positioned …
As a woman I cannot just leave the house: Gendered spaces and HIV vulnerability in marriages in Kenya
This article analyses how spaces are implicated in extramarital sex and HIV transmission in marriage. Drawing on the experiences and practices of married women and men in Kenya, we demonstrate how intersectionality is expressed through the social organization of space to shape particular patterns of femininity and masculinity and enable, mostly, men’s infidelity and the possibility of the HIV risk. HIV mitigation policies focus mostly on altering…
Outsiders in their own nation: Electoral violence and politics of 'internal' displacement in Kenya
This article foregrounds the overlapping continuum of local to global fault lines that structure the human security experiences of internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Kenya. Drawing on data from the 2007-2008 electoral violence-induced displacement of ethnic minorities in the Rift Valley region, the article discusses how the intersections of ethnicity, national politics, land rights, and global humanitarian politics on displacement positioned …
Social networks, gender and HIV within marriages in Kenya
Gender inequalities drive the HIV risk within marriages in Kenya, yet strategies to combat the spread of HIV are limited by their emphasis on the individual or dyadic relationship rather than the wider social-cultural relations that shape gender relations within marriage. This study explores how couples' social networks and spaces of interactions are implicated in the (re)production of gender and gender relations and how this, consequently, shape…
I am a culprit’: Neoliberal public health discourses versus social risks for HIV within marriages in Kenya
Rates of HIV within marriages in Kenya remain high. While critical public health scholars have argued that socio-structural contexts shape HIV vulnerability, public health emphasizes neoliberal health management approaches that prioritize individual responsibility to avoid HIV risks. This article examines Kenya’s marital fidelity campaign as a manifestation of neoliberal health governance techniques. It considers the sexual morality of the campai…
Gender Studies (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Medicine (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Sex work and related issues (3 works) · Virology (3 works) · African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues (2 works) · Economics (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV (2 works)