Affective economies
Eastleigh's metalogistics, urban anxieties and the mapping of diasporic city life
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12915592 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lorenzo Rinelli (University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, corresponding author), Sam Okoth Opondo (0009-0003-5874-3923, Vassar College) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 236-250 |
| Publication date | 2013-05-22 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | African and Black Diaspora An International Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1752-8631 • E-ISSN: 1752-864X |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/17528631.2013.793140 |
| OpenAlex | W2039299918 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 14 |
In this essay, we trace the national and religious anxieties that emerge with the influx of Somali refugees and capital investments into the Nairobi suburb of Eastleigh. More specifically, we look at how the ambiguity of Somali identity [citizen/refugee] in Kenya renders ineffective the state's attempt to police the circulation of the ‘Somali body’ and capital and how this becomes part of a quest for certitude that manifests itself in security discourse on the ‘Somali threat’ on one hand and a national/religious discourse on authentic Kenyanness. Through a reading of affective and moral economies, we illustrate how ‘Somali driven development’ and presence in Eastleigh, rather than act a source of national and religious anxieties can be seen as an opportunity to re-negotiate and re-evaluate both national and urban senses of community
Aesthetics · Ambiguity · Capital (architecture · Identity (music · National identity · Negotiation · Political economy · Political science · Reading (process · Refugee · Social science · Sociology · Somali · State (computer science · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Gender Studies · History · Law · Socioeconomic Development in Asia
African metropolis
African Cities
Modernity at large
The Practice of Everyday Life
The Global City
Michel Foucault , Security, Territory, Population
Conict in Somalia and Crime in Kenya
A city under Siege
Pirate Towns
The Isaq Somali Diaspora and Poll-Tax Agitation in Kenya, 1936–41
Affective Economies
Cities and Citizenship
People as Infrastructure
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2025 (10) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |