Rukyya Hassan
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 73693 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Rukyya Hassan |
| PRENOMES | Rukyya |
| SOBRENOME | Hassan |
| ASSINATURA | HASSAN R |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Nairobi |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9537-6697 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 20 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 35 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 20 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2019 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Rethinking vulnerability and humanitarian assistance in the pastoral drylands
Drought‐related emergency assistance in the drylands is shaped by understandings of vulnerability that are often not commensurate with the socioeconomic dynamics that structure everyday life in pastoralist contexts. Forms of humanitarian assessment and targeting undertaken before the implementation of assistance programmes tend to be oriented towards vulnerability measurements and assessment criteria that focus on individuals or households. These…
Navigating power hierarchies in the “field”
Despite increasing focus on the broad topic of power hierarchies within research partnerships, scholarly analysis and guidance within global health tends to focus on partnership-building, governance structures and authorship, while the interactions occurring between researchers in settings where a project or community are located, often referred to as the “field”, remains a neglected topic. This study applies an intersectional lens to explore how…
Resilience from Below
Based on in-depth field research in northern Kenya over three years, this article makes the case for a new approach to building resilience in the pastoral drylands. Past approaches based on project-style interventions have not worked, but a ‘resilience from below’ approach offers an alternative, we argue. The article elaborates the contrasts between these approaches, highlighting how ‘resilience’ must be framed as emergent, relational and process…
Pastoralism and food sovereignty
Pastoral systems are globally significant for their invaluable contributions to food systems and socio-economic and environmental well-being. Their deep interconnection with land, livelihood, and cultural practices aligns with the tenets of food sovereignty, but they remain peripheral in its research and debates. To acknowledge pastoral contributions and struggles, this paper draws on cases from the Global South to shed light on the overlapping i…
Gender-Sensitive Approaches Improve Characterisation of Resilience in African Pastoral Systems
Strategies for improving resilience in African pastoral systems face increasing scrutiny, particularly in the context of climate shocks. Here, we explore the influence of gender dynamics in relation to resilience of dryland socio-ecological systems and pastoralist communities in northern Kenya. The findings challenge contemporary perspectives of women’s adaptive capacity and traditional gender roles, highlighting women’s nuanced understanding of …
Climate change adaptation as social navigation
Co-producing research in the context of Covid-19
A central objective of this research paper is to consider how research methodologies are critical to the process of decolonising research. To ensure research is designed and executed not to be exploitative, special consideration is required for proposed research (er) collaborations between the Global South and North, particularly in research which focuses on gender, violence, and justice. Understanding the positionality of all groups involved all…
No Option but to Settle! The Community Land Act, Devolution and Pastoralism in Samburu County, Kenya
This article examines the process of securing land rights for pastoralists in Kenya, applying the concept of sedentism to understand the impact of two recent changes in Kenyan land governance. In 2010, the Government of Kenya passed a new constitution, which devolved government power to the local level. A declared aim was to give communities greater influence over governance of their lands. Then, in 2016, the Government passed the Community Land …
Informal settlements, Covid-19 and sex workers in Kenya
This paper highlights the challenges faced by female sex workers living and working in the urban informal settlements in Nairobi, Kenya, during the Covid-19 outbreak and the aftermath of the pandemic. Using data collected through phone interviews during the immediate crisis, we document the experiences of urban poor sex workers, illustrating the acute problems they faced, including precarious housing with the reality of eviction and demolition. T…
Transforming critical agrarian studies
This paper examines the challenges and opportunities faced by critical agrarian scholars in and from the Global South. We argue that despite the historical and structural limitations, the critical juncture of convergence of crises and renewed interest in agrarian political economies offers an opportunity for fostering a diverse research agenda that opens space for critical perspectives about, from and by the Global South, which is mostly absent i…
Will community rights secure pastoralists' access to land? The Community Land Act in Kenya and its implications for Samburu pastoralists
Pastoralists depend on access to communal rangelands but ongoing privatisation of land threatens their access. Further, globally, proponents of pastoralism call for state-sanctioned communal land rights to secure pastoralists access. In Kenya, the government has enacted the Community Land Act to secure communal land rights. This article examines how the implementation of this law affects pastoralists access to communal rangelands in Samburu count…
Seeking Asylum and Mental Health
People seeking asylum face unique challenges and frequently experience mental health problems. Effective support requires an understanding of their mental health needs in the broader context of their lives, cultures and extreme experiences. This book provides practical guidance for professionals and services working with people seeking asylum in mental health, social care, legal, government. managerial and commissioning roles. With authors from a…
Navigating family planning access during Covid-19
The COVID-19 response has profoundly affected women's access to family planning services in Kenya. While prior studies have shown how the COVID-19 response created barriers to accessing family planning (FP) services, less is known about how the pandemic affected the normative influence that partners, peers, and health providers exert on women's FP choices. In this qualitative study, we interviewed 16 women (aged 18-25 years), 10 men in partnershi…
If she gets married when she is young, she will give birth to many kids’
Child marriage is associated with adverse health and social outcomes for women and girls. Among pastoralists in Kenya, child marriage is believed to be higher compared to the national average. This paper explores how social norms and contextual factors sustain child marriage in communities living in conflict-affected North Eastern Kenya. In-depth interviews were carried out with nomadic and semi-nomadic women and men of reproductive age in Wajir …
Use of digital media for family planning information by women and their social networks in Kenya
Access to information about family planning (FP) continues to have financial, physical and social barriers among young women living in Kenya. This paper draws on social norms theory to explore how young women and their social networks access FP information on digital media (e.g., WhatsApp, websites). Qualitative phone interviews were conducted with 40 participants - young women, their partners and key influencers - in seven peri-urban wards in Na…
Private Property and Social Capital
Pastoral livelihoods are presented with new challenges as access to land is altered by climate change and privatization. Pastoralist livelihoods however continue to be reliant on mobility and pastoralists, therefore, continue to negotiate access to land in the privatized and subdivided rangelands. Various dynamics enable and constrain pastoralists’ access under this new form of land tenure, but little work has investigated the underlying power st…
Decolonising the medical curriculum
Colonial thinking runs deep in psychiatry. Recent anti-racist statements from the APA and RCPsych are to be welcomed. However, we argue that if it is to really tackle deep-seated racism and decolonise its curriculum, the discipline will need to critically interrogate the origins of some of its fundamental assumptions, values and priorities. This will not be an easy task. By its very nature, the quest to decolonise is fraught with contradictions a…
Improving provision of family planning among pastoralists in Kenya
There exist significant inequities in access to family planning (FP) in Kenya, particularly for nomadic and semi-nomadic pastoralists. Health care providers (HCP), are key in delivering FP services. Community leaders and religious leaders are also key influencers in women's decisions to use FP. We found limited research exploring the perspectives of both HCPs and these local leaders in this context. We conducted semi-structured interviews with HC…
Access to Healthcare in a time of Covid-19
This paper uses empirical data collected from 117 female sex workers living in informal settlements in Nairobi and 15 healthcare providers to highlight specific effects of COVID-19 and related restrictions on healthcare access for the sex workers. We highlight the existing gender and health inequalities that have now been reinforced by the initial outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. Specifically, we focus on the most concerning healthcare needs fo…
Balancing fidelity, contextualisation, and innovation
This article focuses on SASA!, a community mobilisation approach that was developed in Uganda by Raising Voices, with the aim of preventing violence against women. SASA! proved effective in reducing intimate partner violence against women, and has since been used in over 25 countries worldwide. In this article, we draw on recent research into the International Refugee Committee’s implementation of SASA! in Dadaab, Kenya. In particular, we focus o…
Transforming critical agrarian studies
This paper examines the challenges and opportunities faced by critical agrarian scholars in and from the Global South. We argue that despite the historical and structural limitations, the critical juncture of convergence of crises and renewed interest in agrarian political economies offers an opportunity for fostering a diverse research agenda that opens space for critical perspectives about, from and by the Global South, which is mostly absent i…
Will community rights secure pastoralists' access to land? The Community Land Act in Kenya and its implications for Samburu pastoralists
Pastoralists depend on access to communal rangelands but ongoing privatisation of land threatens their access. Further, globally, proponents of pastoralism call for state-sanctioned communal land rights to secure pastoralists access. In Kenya, the government has enacted the Community Land Act to secure communal land rights. This article examines how the implementation of this law affects pastoralists access to communal rangelands in Samburu count…
Private Property and Social Capital
Pastoral livelihoods are presented with new challenges as access to land is altered by climate change and privatization. Pastoralist livelihoods however continue to be reliant on mobility and pastoralists, therefore, continue to negotiate access to land in the privatized and subdivided rangelands. Various dynamics enable and constrain pastoralists’ access under this new form of land tenure, but little work has investigated the underlying power st…
No Option but to Settle! The Community Land Act, Devolution and Pastoralism in Samburu County, Kenya
This article examines the process of securing land rights for pastoralists in Kenya, applying the concept of sedentism to understand the impact of two recent changes in Kenyan land governance. In 2010, the Government of Kenya passed a new constitution, which devolved government power to the local level. A declared aim was to give communities greater influence over governance of their lands. Then, in 2016, the Government passed the Community Land …
Informal settlements, Covid-19 and sex workers in Kenya
This paper highlights the challenges faced by female sex workers living and working in the urban informal settlements in Nairobi, Kenya, during the Covid-19 outbreak and the aftermath of the pandemic. Using data collected through phone interviews during the immediate crisis, we document the experiences of urban poor sex workers, illustrating the acute problems they faced, including precarious housing with the reality of eviction and demolition. T…
Climate change adaptation as social navigation
Balancing fidelity, contextualisation, and innovation
This article focuses on SASA!, a community mobilisation approach that was developed in Uganda by Raising Voices, with the aim of preventing violence against women. SASA! proved effective in reducing intimate partner violence against women, and has since been used in over 25 countries worldwide. In this article, we draw on recent research into the International Refugee Committee’s implementation of SASA! in Dadaab, Kenya. In particular, we focus o…
Access to Healthcare in a time of Covid-19
This paper uses empirical data collected from 117 female sex workers living in informal settlements in Nairobi and 15 healthcare providers to highlight specific effects of COVID-19 and related restrictions on healthcare access for the sex workers. We highlight the existing gender and health inequalities that have now been reinforced by the initial outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. Specifically, we focus on the most concerning healthcare needs fo…
Decolonising the medical curriculum
Colonial thinking runs deep in psychiatry. Recent anti-racist statements from the APA and RCPsych are to be welcomed. However, we argue that if it is to really tackle deep-seated racism and decolonise its curriculum, the discipline will need to critically interrogate the origins of some of its fundamental assumptions, values and priorities. This will not be an easy task. By its very nature, the quest to decolonise is fraught with contradictions a…
Improving provision of family planning among pastoralists in Kenya
There exist significant inequities in access to family planning (FP) in Kenya, particularly for nomadic and semi-nomadic pastoralists. Health care providers (HCP), are key in delivering FP services. Community leaders and religious leaders are also key influencers in women's decisions to use FP. We found limited research exploring the perspectives of both HCPs and these local leaders in this context. We conducted semi-structured interviews with HC…
Seeking Asylum and Mental Health
People seeking asylum face unique challenges and frequently experience mental health problems. Effective support requires an understanding of their mental health needs in the broader context of their lives, cultures and extreme experiences. This book provides practical guidance for professionals and services working with people seeking asylum in mental health, social care, legal, government. managerial and commissioning roles. With authors from a…
Navigating family planning access during Covid-19
The COVID-19 response has profoundly affected women's access to family planning services in Kenya. While prior studies have shown how the COVID-19 response created barriers to accessing family planning (FP) services, less is known about how the pandemic affected the normative influence that partners, peers, and health providers exert on women's FP choices. In this qualitative study, we interviewed 16 women (aged 18-25 years), 10 men in partnershi…
If she gets married when she is young, she will give birth to many kids’
Child marriage is associated with adverse health and social outcomes for women and girls. Among pastoralists in Kenya, child marriage is believed to be higher compared to the national average. This paper explores how social norms and contextual factors sustain child marriage in communities living in conflict-affected North Eastern Kenya. In-depth interviews were carried out with nomadic and semi-nomadic women and men of reproductive age in Wajir …
Use of digital media for family planning information by women and their social networks in Kenya
Access to information about family planning (FP) continues to have financial, physical and social barriers among young women living in Kenya. This paper draws on social norms theory to explore how young women and their social networks access FP information on digital media (e.g., WhatsApp, websites). Qualitative phone interviews were conducted with 40 participants - young women, their partners and key influencers - in seven peri-urban wards in Na…
Private Property and Social Capital
Pastoral livelihoods are presented with new challenges as access to land is altered by climate change and privatization. Pastoralist livelihoods however continue to be reliant on mobility and pastoralists, therefore, continue to negotiate access to land in the privatized and subdivided rangelands. Various dynamics enable and constrain pastoralists’ access under this new form of land tenure, but little work has investigated the underlying power st…
Co-producing research in the context of Covid-19
A central objective of this research paper is to consider how research methodologies are critical to the process of decolonising research. To ensure research is designed and executed not to be exploitative, special consideration is required for proposed research (er) collaborations between the Global South and North, particularly in research which focuses on gender, violence, and justice. Understanding the positionality of all groups involved all…
No Option but to Settle! The Community Land Act, Devolution and Pastoralism in Samburu County, Kenya
This article examines the process of securing land rights for pastoralists in Kenya, applying the concept of sedentism to understand the impact of two recent changes in Kenyan land governance. In 2010, the Government of Kenya passed a new constitution, which devolved government power to the local level. A declared aim was to give communities greater influence over governance of their lands. Then, in 2016, the Government passed the Community Land …
Informal settlements, Covid-19 and sex workers in Kenya
This paper highlights the challenges faced by female sex workers living and working in the urban informal settlements in Nairobi, Kenya, during the Covid-19 outbreak and the aftermath of the pandemic. Using data collected through phone interviews during the immediate crisis, we document the experiences of urban poor sex workers, illustrating the acute problems they faced, including precarious housing with the reality of eviction and demolition. T…
Transforming critical agrarian studies
This paper examines the challenges and opportunities faced by critical agrarian scholars in and from the Global South. We argue that despite the historical and structural limitations, the critical juncture of convergence of crises and renewed interest in agrarian political economies offers an opportunity for fostering a diverse research agenda that opens space for critical perspectives about, from and by the Global South, which is mostly absent i…
Will community rights secure pastoralists' access to land? The Community Land Act in Kenya and its implications for Samburu pastoralists
Pastoralists depend on access to communal rangelands but ongoing privatisation of land threatens their access. Further, globally, proponents of pastoralism call for state-sanctioned communal land rights to secure pastoralists access. In Kenya, the government has enacted the Community Land Act to secure communal land rights. This article examines how the implementation of this law affects pastoralists access to communal rangelands in Samburu count…
Gender-Sensitive Approaches Improve Characterisation of Resilience in African Pastoral Systems
Strategies for improving resilience in African pastoral systems face increasing scrutiny, particularly in the context of climate shocks. Here, we explore the influence of gender dynamics in relation to resilience of dryland socio-ecological systems and pastoralist communities in northern Kenya. The findings challenge contemporary perspectives of women’s adaptive capacity and traditional gender roles, highlighting women’s nuanced understanding of …
Climate change adaptation as social navigation
Rethinking vulnerability and humanitarian assistance in the pastoral drylands
Drought‐related emergency assistance in the drylands is shaped by understandings of vulnerability that are often not commensurate with the socioeconomic dynamics that structure everyday life in pastoralist contexts. Forms of humanitarian assessment and targeting undertaken before the implementation of assistance programmes tend to be oriented towards vulnerability measurements and assessment criteria that focus on individuals or households. These…
Navigating power hierarchies in the “field”
Despite increasing focus on the broad topic of power hierarchies within research partnerships, scholarly analysis and guidance within global health tends to focus on partnership-building, governance structures and authorship, while the interactions occurring between researchers in settings where a project or community are located, often referred to as the “field”, remains a neglected topic. This study applies an intersectional lens to explore how…
Resilience from Below
Based on in-depth field research in northern Kenya over three years, this article makes the case for a new approach to building resilience in the pastoral drylands. Past approaches based on project-style interventions have not worked, but a ‘resilience from below’ approach offers an alternative, we argue. The article elaborates the contrasts between these approaches, highlighting how ‘resilience’ must be framed as emergent, relational and process…
Pastoralism and food sovereignty
Pastoral systems are globally significant for their invaluable contributions to food systems and socio-economic and environmental well-being. Their deep interconnection with land, livelihood, and cultural practices aligns with the tenets of food sovereignty, but they remain peripheral in its research and debates. To acknowledge pastoral contributions and struggles, this paper draws on cases from the Global South to shed light on the overlapping i…
Sociology (11 obras) · Geography (10 obras) · Political science (9 obras) · Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology (8 obras) · Social science (8 obras) · Pastoralism (7 obras) · Economics (6 obras) · Medicine (5 obras) · Public relations (5 obras) · Qualitative research (5 obras)