H Elliott
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 44476 |
|---|---|
| NOME | H Elliott |
| PRENOMES | H |
| SOBRENOME | Elliott |
| ASSINATURA | ELLIOTT H |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Copenhagen Business School |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3076-0791 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 12 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 107 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 12 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1997 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Timing property
Across the globe, the acquisition and exploitation of property has become a defining feature of capitalism. A central pillar of middle-class aspiration and ideology, property carries the promise of security, propelling its pursuit even as prices rise disproportionally to wages. This drive to own occurs amid highly unequal property markets and contributes to their destabilization—the market volatility produced by financialization and speculation. …
What property did next, and other stories
Property in land is one of anthropology's earliest subjects of study. Investigating property's cultural relativism, early work in the field challenged the universalist claims of a liberal private property concept used to justify imperial projects of land appropriation and extraction, even as it informed the parallel “native” property regimes that further served such projects (Peters, 2004). Anthropologists of property documented the diversity of …
Trust as Social Infrastructure in Somali Trading Networks
Based on ethnographic work in Nairobi’s Eastleigh district and elsewhere in Somali East Africa, this chapter scrutinizes the everyday functioning of trust in business transactions at the interface between kinship and religion. Trust, the authors explain, is a normative discourse that promotes mutuality in trade between fellow Somalis and adherents of Islam. These discourses lubricate the flow of capital and goods and create affirmative counter-na…
Durable conversions
In Isiolo, a northern Kenyan town earmarked for development as part of a large-scale infrastructure project, the value of land has increased dramatically. Local residents with insecure tenure at the town's edges were selling off plots at ever-rising prices. Yet the money generated was renowned for its rapid expenditure, leaving the holder with little to show for the sale. This article examines the discourse of "selling and building," whereby resi…
True Price of Quality
In Kenya, tea is a “political crop” (Ochieng 2007). Tea is one of Kenya’s largest exports and is an important foreign exchange earner and source of revenue. At the same time, tea is key to the livelihoods many smallholder farmers in central Kenya and west of the Rift Valley, so that the price of tea is a recurrent focus of political campaigns. Keenly aware of tea’s political and economic value, county governments grapple with the national governm…
Hybrid or Virtual Conferencing
It's up to the market to decide
In 2007, Unilever, the world's largest tea company, announced plans to source its entire tea supply sustainably, beginning with the certification of its tea producers in East Africa to Rainforest Alliance standards. As a major buyer of Kenyan tea, Unilever's decision pushed tea producers across Kenya to subscribe to Rainforest Alliance's sustainable agriculture standard in order to maintain access to the global tea market; according to a 2018 rep…
Town Making at the Gateway to Kenya’s ‘New Frontier’
Demanding and Commanding Goods
Planning, property and plots at the gateway to Kenya's 'new frontier
As the gateway to the former Northern Frontier District, Isiolo town has long been viewed as marking the beginning of a 'Kenya B' – a 'low potential' desert region of communally owned land – set in contrast to more economically productive and individually owned land to the south. In recent years, however, Isiolo has been reframed as the gateway to a region of economic potential with the announcement of the ambitious Lamu Port-South Sudan-Ethiopia…
Camel herders, middlewomen, and urban milk bars
Camel dairy products have long been recognised as important in pastoralist livelihoods in northern Kenya, but only in recent years has camel milk been marketed commercially in the urban centres of the region. This article charts the commodification of camel milk in Isiolo, considering the evolution from simple urban hawking, led by female vendors, to commercial retail sales and international exports involving investment of higher levels of capita…
The Use of Diaries in Sociological Research on Health Experience
Diaries have been relatively neglected as a sociological research method. This paper highlights the value of diary research, drawing on the literature on auto/biographies and health service research as well as a qualitative study of need and demand for primary health care, which used diaries and linked in-depth interviews. In particular, data from the study are used to illustrate the role of the 'diary-interview' method in offering a means to 'ob…
The Use of Diaries in Sociological Research on Health Experience
Diaries have been relatively neglected as a sociological research method. This paper highlights the value of diary research, drawing on the literature on auto/biographies and health service research as well as a qualitative study of need and demand for primary health care, which used diaries and linked in-depth interviews. In particular, data from the study are used to illustrate the role of the 'diary-interview' method in offering a means to 'ob…
Planning, property and plots at the gateway to Kenya's 'new frontier
As the gateway to the former Northern Frontier District, Isiolo town has long been viewed as marking the beginning of a 'Kenya B' – a 'low potential' desert region of communally owned land – set in contrast to more economically productive and individually owned land to the south. In recent years, however, Isiolo has been reframed as the gateway to a region of economic potential with the announcement of the ambitious Lamu Port-South Sudan-Ethiopia…
Durable conversions
In Isiolo, a northern Kenyan town earmarked for development as part of a large-scale infrastructure project, the value of land has increased dramatically. Local residents with insecure tenure at the town's edges were selling off plots at ever-rising prices. Yet the money generated was renowned for its rapid expenditure, leaving the holder with little to show for the sale. This article examines the discourse of "selling and building," whereby resi…
Camel herders, middlewomen, and urban milk bars
Camel dairy products have long been recognised as important in pastoralist livelihoods in northern Kenya, but only in recent years has camel milk been marketed commercially in the urban centres of the region. This article charts the commodification of camel milk in Isiolo, considering the evolution from simple urban hawking, led by female vendors, to commercial retail sales and international exports involving investment of higher levels of capita…
It's up to the market to decide
In 2007, Unilever, the world's largest tea company, announced plans to source its entire tea supply sustainably, beginning with the certification of its tea producers in East Africa to Rainforest Alliance standards. As a major buyer of Kenyan tea, Unilever's decision pushed tea producers across Kenya to subscribe to Rainforest Alliance's sustainable agriculture standard in order to maintain access to the global tea market; according to a 2018 rep…
The Use of Diaries in Sociological Research on Health Experience
Diaries have been relatively neglected as a sociological research method. This paper highlights the value of diary research, drawing on the literature on auto/biographies and health service research as well as a qualitative study of need and demand for primary health care, which used diaries and linked in-depth interviews. In particular, data from the study are used to illustrate the role of the 'diary-interview' method in offering a means to 'ob…
Camel herders, middlewomen, and urban milk bars
Camel dairy products have long been recognised as important in pastoralist livelihoods in northern Kenya, but only in recent years has camel milk been marketed commercially in the urban centres of the region. This article charts the commodification of camel milk in Isiolo, considering the evolution from simple urban hawking, led by female vendors, to commercial retail sales and international exports involving investment of higher levels of capita…
Planning, property and plots at the gateway to Kenya's 'new frontier
As the gateway to the former Northern Frontier District, Isiolo town has long been viewed as marking the beginning of a 'Kenya B' – a 'low potential' desert region of communally owned land – set in contrast to more economically productive and individually owned land to the south. In recent years, however, Isiolo has been reframed as the gateway to a region of economic potential with the announcement of the ambitious Lamu Port-South Sudan-Ethiopia…
Demanding and Commanding Goods
Town Making at the Gateway to Kenya’s ‘New Frontier’
True Price of Quality
In Kenya, tea is a “political crop” (Ochieng 2007). Tea is one of Kenya’s largest exports and is an important foreign exchange earner and source of revenue. At the same time, tea is key to the livelihoods many smallholder farmers in central Kenya and west of the Rift Valley, so that the price of tea is a recurrent focus of political campaigns. Keenly aware of tea’s political and economic value, county governments grapple with the national governm…
Hybrid or Virtual Conferencing
It's up to the market to decide
In 2007, Unilever, the world's largest tea company, announced plans to source its entire tea supply sustainably, beginning with the certification of its tea producers in East Africa to Rainforest Alliance standards. As a major buyer of Kenyan tea, Unilever's decision pushed tea producers across Kenya to subscribe to Rainforest Alliance's sustainable agriculture standard in order to maintain access to the global tea market; according to a 2018 rep…
Durable conversions
In Isiolo, a northern Kenyan town earmarked for development as part of a large-scale infrastructure project, the value of land has increased dramatically. Local residents with insecure tenure at the town's edges were selling off plots at ever-rising prices. Yet the money generated was renowned for its rapid expenditure, leaving the holder with little to show for the sale. This article examines the discourse of "selling and building," whereby resi…
Trust as Social Infrastructure in Somali Trading Networks
Based on ethnographic work in Nairobi’s Eastleigh district and elsewhere in Somali East Africa, this chapter scrutinizes the everyday functioning of trust in business transactions at the interface between kinship and religion. Trust, the authors explain, is a normative discourse that promotes mutuality in trade between fellow Somalis and adherents of Islam. These discourses lubricate the flow of capital and goods and create affirmative counter-na…
Timing property
Across the globe, the acquisition and exploitation of property has become a defining feature of capitalism. A central pillar of middle-class aspiration and ideology, property carries the promise of security, propelling its pursuit even as prices rise disproportionally to wages. This drive to own occurs amid highly unequal property markets and contributes to their destabilization—the market volatility produced by financialization and speculation. …
What property did next, and other stories
Property in land is one of anthropology's earliest subjects of study. Investigating property's cultural relativism, early work in the field challenged the universalist claims of a liberal private property concept used to justify imperial projects of land appropriation and extraction, even as it informed the parallel “native” property regimes that further served such projects (Peters, 2004). Anthropologists of property documented the diversity of …
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