John Rasmussen
Biographic Data
| ID | 79058 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John Rasmussen |
| GIVEN NAMES | John |
| FAMILY NAME | Rasmussen |
| SIGNATURE | RASMUSSEN J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Roskilde University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8590-2094 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 43 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1965 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Toward a More Globally Attuned Degrowth
This article contributes to the ongoing efforts to develop a more globally attuned degrowth perspective by placing it in dialogue with post-development scholarship. Together, these two critical frameworks challenge dominant growth-oriented paradigms in distinct geopolitical and epistemological contexts. While degrowth, rooted in the Global North, critiques capitalist expansion and advocates for democratically led downscaling, post-development eme…
Dialectics of informality in the smart city
Critical academic engagements of smart cities are increasingly traversing boundaries of global North and South in the theorization of urban smartness. More recent tendencies present important entry points for critically discussing smart cities, partly by pointing to the exclusion of urban informality in much smart-city research. To overcome this omission, suggestions of provincializing the study of smart cities and arguments for a Southern resear…
Hybrid sanitation infrastructure in Tema, Ghana
Population growth, urbanization, insecure land rights, and underinvestment impede the development of sanitation infrastructure in African cities. In response, decentralized, affordable, community-driven hybrid sanitation systems have emerged, frequently initiated by local stakeholders. This study examines such systems in Tema, Ghana, an originally planned city undergoing significant unplanned expansion. Employing mixed methods, including surveys …
Biomechanical Analysis of Stoop and Free-Style Squat Lifting and Lowering with a Generic Back-Support Exoskeleton Model
Musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) induced by industrial manual handling tasks are a major issue for workers and companies. As flexible ergonomic solutions, occupational exoskeletons can decrease critically high body stress in situations of awkward postures and motions. Biomechanical models with detailed anthropometrics and motions help us to acquire a comprehension of person- and application-specifics by considering the intended and unintended eff…
Gangs and vigilantism
This chapter highlights how the terms “gangs” and “vigilantes” are used to refer to a wide range of violent actors who display significant variation in terms of their activities and organizational structures. To explain this complexity, the chapter examines the relationship between violence, crime, security provision, and politics, and highlights how “gangs” and “vigilante groups” are involved in politics, while politicians often call upon the sa…
Our time to recover
In this article, we show how youth groups in Nairobi’s poor settlements engage with politics while carving out a political space for themselves and providing a livelihood. In doing so, we challenge dominant neo-patrimonial narratives of youth radicalization and instrumentalized youth mobilization in relation to electoral processes. Based on long-term ethnographic engagements, we argue for more complex dynamics between local youth groups and polit…
Youth, the Kenyan state and a politics of contestation
This paper introduces the Special Collection ‘Youth, the Kenyan state and a politics of contestation'. It focuses on youth and the heterogenous ways this social category responds to inordinate state action. Specifically, we foreground the various roles the Kenyan state has played in the construction and politicization of Kenyan youth across time and space. The introduction frames the papers in the Special Collection within a three-pronged argumen…
Documentary evidence
In this article we argue for closer intellectual attention to the intersection between the unstable materiality of urban spaces on the one hand, and anxieties about the materiality of official documents on the other. Based on initial evidence from two cities in Africa, namely Nairobi and Johannesburg, we have observed that official documents as material objects matters most in precisely those parts of the city where formal state and civil society…
Parasitic politics
The holding of multiparty elections has become the bellwether by which all democracies are judged, and the spread of such systems across Africa has been widely hailed as a sign of the continent’s progress towards stability and prosperity. But such elections bring their own challenges, particularly the often intense internecine violence that can follow disputed results. While the consequences of such violence can be profound, undermining the legit…
Cities in Sub‐Saharan Africa
Sub‐Saharan Africa is the least urbanized region in the world, yet it has the highest urban growth rate. The region is traditionally known more for its rural cultures than its urban past, and urbanization is generally considered a colonial phenomenon. Studies of cities in sub‐Saharan Africa have focused mainly on the aspects of planning and industrialization in the colonial period and on informality, governance, and development in the postindepen…
Man in Isolation & Confinement
Inside the System, Outside the Law
Researching Violence in Africa
Reading the introductory chapter to Researching Violence in Africa one immediately starts to reflect critically on one's own work and its ethical implications. Successfully stimulating such reflections is an obvious quality of a book whose aim is not to set up rules and act as a tools manual, but to prepare researchers in difficult settings to be able to think on their feet (p. 12). In a strong introductory chapter the editors raise central ethic…
Les parlements du peuple au Kenya
Malgré l'adoption d'une nouvelle constitution en 2010, les violences postélectorales qui ont suivi les élections générales contestées de 2007 entretiennent des débats incessants au Kenya sur un état de crise politique et une démocratie fragile. Comparant deux parlements de rue dans les villes d'Eldoret et de Nairobi dans le contexte de l'échec du processus électoral et de la réforme constitutionnelle, cet article traite des dynamiques de la parti…
Mungiki as youth movement
Like many other African countries, Kenya has a large and growing youth population. Some of the youths are mobilized into militant and political networks; one of these is the Mungiki movement. The article explores Mungiki’s combination of politics, religion and Kikuyu traditions. Using the examples of snuff tobacco, revolutionary talk and generational exclusion, it is argued that one way of understanding the connection between the various elements…
Outwitting the professor of politics? Mungiki narratives of political deception and their role in Kenyan politics
The Kenyan general election of 2002, which put an end to Daniel Arap Moi's 24-year rule, has been subjected to much political analysis. The article takes as its point of departure the politico-religious movement Mungiki and the movement's own narratives of its role in the elections. Mungiki's narratives tell a story of alliances and behind-the-scenes political play that differs from the public version of events. It is argued that the movement's r…
Effect of Chain Wheel Shape on Crank Torque, Freely Chosen Pedal Rate, and Physiological Responses during Submaximal Cycling
The development of noncircular chain wheels for the enhancement of cycling performance has been in progress for a long time and continues apace. In this study we tested whether submaximal cycling using a non-circular (Biopace) versus a circular chain wheel resulted in lower peak crank torque at preset pedal rates as well as resulting in lower pedal rate and metabolic response at freely chosen pedal rate. Ten trained cyclists (mean+/-SD: 27+/-3 ye…
The Disutility of the Swing Concept in British Psephology
Mungiki as youth movement
Like many other African countries, Kenya has a large and growing youth population. Some of the youths are mobilized into militant and political networks; one of these is the Mungiki movement. The article explores Mungiki’s combination of politics, religion and Kikuyu traditions. Using the examples of snuff tobacco, revolutionary talk and generational exclusion, it is argued that one way of understanding the connection between the various elements…
Youth, the Kenyan state and a politics of contestation
This paper introduces the Special Collection ‘Youth, the Kenyan state and a politics of contestation'. It focuses on youth and the heterogenous ways this social category responds to inordinate state action. Specifically, we foreground the various roles the Kenyan state has played in the construction and politicization of Kenyan youth across time and space. The introduction frames the papers in the Special Collection within a three-pronged argumen…
Outwitting the professor of politics? Mungiki narratives of political deception and their role in Kenyan politics
The Kenyan general election of 2002, which put an end to Daniel Arap Moi's 24-year rule, has been subjected to much political analysis. The article takes as its point of departure the politico-religious movement Mungiki and the movement's own narratives of its role in the elections. Mungiki's narratives tell a story of alliances and behind-the-scenes political play that differs from the public version of events. It is argued that the movement's r…
Our time to recover
In this article, we show how youth groups in Nairobi’s poor settlements engage with politics while carving out a political space for themselves and providing a livelihood. In doing so, we challenge dominant neo-patrimonial narratives of youth radicalization and instrumentalized youth mobilization in relation to electoral processes. Based on long-term ethnographic engagements, we argue for more complex dynamics between local youth groups and polit…
The Disutility of the Swing Concept in British Psephology
Les parlements du peuple au Kenya
Malgré l'adoption d'une nouvelle constitution en 2010, les violences postélectorales qui ont suivi les élections générales contestées de 2007 entretiennent des débats incessants au Kenya sur un état de crise politique et une démocratie fragile. Comparant deux parlements de rue dans les villes d'Eldoret et de Nairobi dans le contexte de l'échec du processus électoral et de la réforme constitutionnelle, cet article traite des dynamiques de la parti…
The Disutility of the Swing Concept in British Psephology
Effect of Chain Wheel Shape on Crank Torque, Freely Chosen Pedal Rate, and Physiological Responses during Submaximal Cycling
The development of noncircular chain wheels for the enhancement of cycling performance has been in progress for a long time and continues apace. In this study we tested whether submaximal cycling using a non-circular (Biopace) versus a circular chain wheel resulted in lower peak crank torque at preset pedal rates as well as resulting in lower pedal rate and metabolic response at freely chosen pedal rate. Ten trained cyclists (mean+/-SD: 27+/-3 ye…
Mungiki as youth movement
Like many other African countries, Kenya has a large and growing youth population. Some of the youths are mobilized into militant and political networks; one of these is the Mungiki movement. The article explores Mungiki’s combination of politics, religion and Kikuyu traditions. Using the examples of snuff tobacco, revolutionary talk and generational exclusion, it is argued that one way of understanding the connection between the various elements…
Outwitting the professor of politics? Mungiki narratives of political deception and their role in Kenyan politics
The Kenyan general election of 2002, which put an end to Daniel Arap Moi's 24-year rule, has been subjected to much political analysis. The article takes as its point of departure the politico-religious movement Mungiki and the movement's own narratives of its role in the elections. Mungiki's narratives tell a story of alliances and behind-the-scenes political play that differs from the public version of events. It is argued that the movement's r…
Inside the System, Outside the Law
Researching Violence in Africa
Reading the introductory chapter to Researching Violence in Africa one immediately starts to reflect critically on one's own work and its ethical implications. Successfully stimulating such reflections is an obvious quality of a book whose aim is not to set up rules and act as a tools manual, but to prepare researchers in difficult settings to be able to think on their feet (p. 12). In a strong introductory chapter the editors raise central ethic…
Les parlements du peuple au Kenya
Malgré l'adoption d'une nouvelle constitution en 2010, les violences postélectorales qui ont suivi les élections générales contestées de 2007 entretiennent des débats incessants au Kenya sur un état de crise politique et une démocratie fragile. Comparant deux parlements de rue dans les villes d'Eldoret et de Nairobi dans le contexte de l'échec du processus électoral et de la réforme constitutionnelle, cet article traite des dynamiques de la parti…
Man in Isolation & Confinement
Parasitic politics
The holding of multiparty elections has become the bellwether by which all democracies are judged, and the spread of such systems across Africa has been widely hailed as a sign of the continent’s progress towards stability and prosperity. But such elections bring their own challenges, particularly the often intense internecine violence that can follow disputed results. While the consequences of such violence can be profound, undermining the legit…
Cities in Sub‐Saharan Africa
Sub‐Saharan Africa is the least urbanized region in the world, yet it has the highest urban growth rate. The region is traditionally known more for its rural cultures than its urban past, and urbanization is generally considered a colonial phenomenon. Studies of cities in sub‐Saharan Africa have focused mainly on the aspects of planning and industrialization in the colonial period and on informality, governance, and development in the postindepen…
Documentary evidence
In this article we argue for closer intellectual attention to the intersection between the unstable materiality of urban spaces on the one hand, and anxieties about the materiality of official documents on the other. Based on initial evidence from two cities in Africa, namely Nairobi and Johannesburg, we have observed that official documents as material objects matters most in precisely those parts of the city where formal state and civil society…
Gangs and vigilantism
This chapter highlights how the terms “gangs” and “vigilantes” are used to refer to a wide range of violent actors who display significant variation in terms of their activities and organizational structures. To explain this complexity, the chapter examines the relationship between violence, crime, security provision, and politics, and highlights how “gangs” and “vigilante groups” are involved in politics, while politicians often call upon the sa…
Our time to recover
In this article, we show how youth groups in Nairobi’s poor settlements engage with politics while carving out a political space for themselves and providing a livelihood. In doing so, we challenge dominant neo-patrimonial narratives of youth radicalization and instrumentalized youth mobilization in relation to electoral processes. Based on long-term ethnographic engagements, we argue for more complex dynamics between local youth groups and polit…
Youth, the Kenyan state and a politics of contestation
This paper introduces the Special Collection ‘Youth, the Kenyan state and a politics of contestation'. It focuses on youth and the heterogenous ways this social category responds to inordinate state action. Specifically, we foreground the various roles the Kenyan state has played in the construction and politicization of Kenyan youth across time and space. The introduction frames the papers in the Special Collection within a three-pronged argumen…
Biomechanical Analysis of Stoop and Free-Style Squat Lifting and Lowering with a Generic Back-Support Exoskeleton Model
Musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) induced by industrial manual handling tasks are a major issue for workers and companies. As flexible ergonomic solutions, occupational exoskeletons can decrease critically high body stress in situations of awkward postures and motions. Biomechanical models with detailed anthropometrics and motions help us to acquire a comprehension of person- and application-specifics by considering the intended and unintended eff…
Toward a More Globally Attuned Degrowth
This article contributes to the ongoing efforts to develop a more globally attuned degrowth perspective by placing it in dialogue with post-development scholarship. Together, these two critical frameworks challenge dominant growth-oriented paradigms in distinct geopolitical and epistemological contexts. While degrowth, rooted in the Global North, critiques capitalist expansion and advocates for democratically led downscaling, post-development eme…
Dialectics of informality in the smart city
Critical academic engagements of smart cities are increasingly traversing boundaries of global North and South in the theorization of urban smartness. More recent tendencies present important entry points for critically discussing smart cities, partly by pointing to the exclusion of urban informality in much smart-city research. To overcome this omission, suggestions of provincializing the study of smart cities and arguments for a Southern resear…
Hybrid sanitation infrastructure in Tema, Ghana
Population growth, urbanization, insecure land rights, and underinvestment impede the development of sanitation infrastructure in African cities. In response, decentralized, affordable, community-driven hybrid sanitation systems have emerged, frequently initiated by local stakeholders. This study examines such systems in Tema, Ghana, an originally planned city undergoing significant unplanned expansion. Employing mixed methods, including surveys …
Political science (11 works) · Law (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Politics (7 works) · Law (5 works) · African history and culture studies (3 works) · Mathematics (3 works) · Political economy (3 works) · Urban and Rural Development Challenges (3 works) · African studies and sociopolitical issues (2 works)