Bettina Ng’weno
Biographic Data
| ID | 679692 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bettina Ng’weno |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bettina |
| FAMILY NAME | Ng’weno |
| SIGNATURE | NG’WENO B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Davis |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9155-7119 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 51 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
No Place Like Home in a New City: Anti-Urbanism and Life in Nairobi
Remains of an Unrealized Yesterday
Introduction: Dawn
Listening Like a State: Using Public Reparations Testimony to Guide Planning
Problem, research strategy, and findings: Racial and tribal disparities in land access and ownership are at the root of many inequalities in the built and natural environment, but land-based reparations and reparative land use planning are not standard practices. California offers a unique case study in multiracial reparative planning, with recommendations now emerging from two important statewide processes: the California Reparations Task Force …
Unsettling the City, Sedimentations of Place
Building on an anthropology of the city, this special section aims to further pry open "the city" by tarrying with the material and sensorial relationships that accrue between cities and their residents even while hanging in suspension/motion. Through these concerns with the material and the sensorial, we contribute to the emergent anthropological conversation about the ways in which the felt textures of place matter to the city, atmospherically,…
Building Newness in Fits and Starts: Infrastructure and Temporality in Nairobi
Nairobi is a rapidly changing city. The speed, magnitude, and unpredictability of the change are productive of a kind of unsettling. This unsettling is felt in the sound of drilling, the texture of the constant dust, the sight of cranes, and the unevenness of uplifted sidewalks. At the same time, as the sound, dust, and cranes persist across the city from day into night from 1 year to the next, this change is also productive of a kind of sediment…
The Historical, Political, and Demographic Context of Leadership in Africa
Rites, Rights and Rhythms: A Genealogy of Musical Meaning in Colombia’s Black Pacific
When I first arrived in Colombia in 1999 I was puzzled by the fact that on hearing I was an anthropologist, people would ask if I was studying Indigenous people. When I replied “No, I am studying p
Reimagining Indian Ocean Worlds
Developing Global Leaders: Insights from African Case Studies
This book is a timely guide on what constitutes effective leadership in Africa. It explores how today’s leaders in Africa perceive their role, the challenges they experience, and how they operate effectively as leaders. In the era of globalization, there is an increasing need to offer guidance on how leaders can adjust their leadership style to suit situational contexts. Drawing on case study and survey data, this book illustrates to scholars and…
Irony of Citizenship: Descent, National Belonging, and Constitutions in the Postcolonial African State
In 2010, like many African countries since the 1990s, Kenya passed a new constitution. This constitution aimed to get rid of many past issues including the definition of citizenship. Globally, two general principles govern the acquisition of citizenship, descent from a citizen (jus sanguinis), and the fact of birth within a state territory (jus soli). In contrast to the prior Constitution that required both descent from Kenyan parents and birth i…
“Dancing is Part and Parcel of Someone who is Cultured”: Ballroom Dancing and the Spaces of Urban Identity in 1950s Nairobi
If you read any city guides about Nairobi in the 1950s you will be struck by the listings of places to dance where live music is played. It was obviously a large part of the social life of the city. What is less obvious at first sight is that these reference dancing available to European audiences only. Was everyone else dancing? Africans resident in Nairobi indeed were dancing. They were dancing to similar and different music, getting their styl…
Growing old in a new city: Time, the post-colony and making Nairobi home
Once imagined as a colonial city with restricted access to Africans and now planned as a ‘world class African metropolis’, Nairobi today is a rapidly changing city. What does it mean to grow old in such a city? Based on memories of people who grew up in Railway housing in Nairobi between the late 1930s and 1980s, this article examines rapid change from the point of view of permanence and aging. What imaginaries of a future Nairobi did long-term A…
Music and Dance in Eastern Africa: Current Research in Humanities and Social Sciences
This collection of articles cuts across the Eastern African region, with authors interrogating varying themes in different historical periods that speak not only to the practice of music and dance but also to the performances that characterize these practices. The book dedicates itself to research in music and dance, while engaging with colonial and contemporary political and historical realities within the Eastern African region. Inevitably, the…
Introduction to Forum on Post-Colonial and Contemporary Kenya dedicated to Elliot Fratkin and Richard Waller
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Knowing History in Mexico: An Ethnography of Citizenship - by Stack, Trevor
Can Ethnicity Replace Race? Afro-Colombians, Indigeneity and the Colombian Multicultural State
Diferentes países latinoaméricanos, Colombia incluida, han declarado ser naciones multiculturales. En el proceso, estos han reestructurado los derechos legales de acuerdo con líneas de distinción cultural, y han proveído a los grupos étnicos con derechos especiales bajo nuevas constituciones políticas. Una dimensión crucial de este cambio legal ha sido la consagración de una cierta conceptualización de etnicidad. En este artículo me concentro en …
Inheriting Disputes: The Digo Negotiation of Meaning and Power through Land
Can Ethnicity Replace Race? Afro-Colombians, Indigeneity and the Colombian Multicultural State
Diferentes países latinoaméricanos, Colombia incluida, han declarado ser naciones multiculturales. En el proceso, estos han reestructurado los derechos legales de acuerdo con líneas de distinción cultural, y han proveído a los grupos étnicos con derechos especiales bajo nuevas constituciones políticas. Una dimensión crucial de este cambio legal ha sido la consagración de una cierta conceptualización de etnicidad. En este artículo me concentro en …
Irony of Citizenship: Descent, National Belonging, and Constitutions in the Postcolonial African State
In 2010, like many African countries since the 1990s, Kenya passed a new constitution. This constitution aimed to get rid of many past issues including the definition of citizenship. Globally, two general principles govern the acquisition of citizenship, descent from a citizen (jus sanguinis), and the fact of birth within a state territory (jus soli). In contrast to the prior Constitution that required both descent from Kenyan parents and birth i…
Reimagining Indian Ocean Worlds
Growing old in a new city: Time, the post-colony and making Nairobi home
Once imagined as a colonial city with restricted access to Africans and now planned as a ‘world class African metropolis’, Nairobi today is a rapidly changing city. What does it mean to grow old in such a city? Based on memories of people who grew up in Railway housing in Nairobi between the late 1930s and 1980s, this article examines rapid change from the point of view of permanence and aging. What imaginaries of a future Nairobi did long-term A…
Building Newness in Fits and Starts: Infrastructure and Temporality in Nairobi
Nairobi is a rapidly changing city. The speed, magnitude, and unpredictability of the change are productive of a kind of unsettling. This unsettling is felt in the sound of drilling, the texture of the constant dust, the sight of cranes, and the unevenness of uplifted sidewalks. At the same time, as the sound, dust, and cranes persist across the city from day into night from 1 year to the next, this change is also productive of a kind of sediment…
Inheriting Disputes: The Digo Negotiation of Meaning and Power through Land
Can Ethnicity Replace Race? Afro-Colombians, Indigeneity and the Colombian Multicultural State
Diferentes países latinoaméricanos, Colombia incluida, han declarado ser naciones multiculturales. En el proceso, estos han reestructurado los derechos legales de acuerdo con líneas de distinción cultural, y han proveído a los grupos étnicos con derechos especiales bajo nuevas constituciones políticas. Una dimensión crucial de este cambio legal ha sido la consagración de una cierta conceptualización de etnicidad. En este artículo me concentro en …
Knowing History in Mexico: An Ethnography of Citizenship - by Stack, Trevor
“Dancing is Part and Parcel of Someone who is Cultured”: Ballroom Dancing and the Spaces of Urban Identity in 1950s Nairobi
If you read any city guides about Nairobi in the 1950s you will be struck by the listings of places to dance where live music is played. It was obviously a large part of the social life of the city. What is less obvious at first sight is that these reference dancing available to European audiences only. Was everyone else dancing? Africans resident in Nairobi indeed were dancing. They were dancing to similar and different music, getting their styl…
Growing old in a new city: Time, the post-colony and making Nairobi home
Once imagined as a colonial city with restricted access to Africans and now planned as a ‘world class African metropolis’, Nairobi today is a rapidly changing city. What does it mean to grow old in such a city? Based on memories of people who grew up in Railway housing in Nairobi between the late 1930s and 1980s, this article examines rapid change from the point of view of permanence and aging. What imaginaries of a future Nairobi did long-term A…
Music and Dance in Eastern Africa: Current Research in Humanities and Social Sciences
This collection of articles cuts across the Eastern African region, with authors interrogating varying themes in different historical periods that speak not only to the practice of music and dance but also to the performances that characterize these practices. The book dedicates itself to research in music and dance, while engaging with colonial and contemporary political and historical realities within the Eastern African region. Inevitably, the…
Introduction to Forum on Post-Colonial and Contemporary Kenya dedicated to Elliot Fratkin and Richard Waller
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Developing Global Leaders: Insights from African Case Studies
This book is a timely guide on what constitutes effective leadership in Africa. It explores how today’s leaders in Africa perceive their role, the challenges they experience, and how they operate effectively as leaders. In the era of globalization, there is an increasing need to offer guidance on how leaders can adjust their leadership style to suit situational contexts. Drawing on case study and survey data, this book illustrates to scholars and…
Irony of Citizenship: Descent, National Belonging, and Constitutions in the Postcolonial African State
In 2010, like many African countries since the 1990s, Kenya passed a new constitution. This constitution aimed to get rid of many past issues including the definition of citizenship. Globally, two general principles govern the acquisition of citizenship, descent from a citizen (jus sanguinis), and the fact of birth within a state territory (jus soli). In contrast to the prior Constitution that required both descent from Kenyan parents and birth i…
The Historical, Political, and Demographic Context of Leadership in Africa
Rites, Rights and Rhythms: A Genealogy of Musical Meaning in Colombia’s Black Pacific
When I first arrived in Colombia in 1999 I was puzzled by the fact that on hearing I was an anthropologist, people would ask if I was studying Indigenous people. When I replied “No, I am studying p
Reimagining Indian Ocean Worlds
No Place Like Home in a New City: Anti-Urbanism and Life in Nairobi
Remains of an Unrealized Yesterday
Introduction: Dawn
Listening Like a State: Using Public Reparations Testimony to Guide Planning
Problem, research strategy, and findings: Racial and tribal disparities in land access and ownership are at the root of many inequalities in the built and natural environment, but land-based reparations and reparative land use planning are not standard practices. California offers a unique case study in multiracial reparative planning, with recommendations now emerging from two important statewide processes: the California Reparations Task Force …
Unsettling the City, Sedimentations of Place
Building on an anthropology of the city, this special section aims to further pry open "the city" by tarrying with the material and sensorial relationships that accrue between cities and their residents even while hanging in suspension/motion. Through these concerns with the material and the sensorial, we contribute to the emergent anthropological conversation about the ways in which the felt textures of place matter to the city, atmospherically,…
Building Newness in Fits and Starts: Infrastructure and Temporality in Nairobi
Nairobi is a rapidly changing city. The speed, magnitude, and unpredictability of the change are productive of a kind of unsettling. This unsettling is felt in the sound of drilling, the texture of the constant dust, the sight of cranes, and the unevenness of uplifted sidewalks. At the same time, as the sound, dust, and cranes persist across the city from day into night from 1 year to the next, this change is also productive of a kind of sediment…
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