"Polling places and "slow punctured provocation
Occult-driven cases in postcolonial Kenya's High Courts
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2182220 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Katherine Luongo (0000-0002-4518-7636, Northeastern University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 4 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 577-591 |
| Publication date | 2010-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Eastern African Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1753-1055 • E-ISSN: 1753-1063 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/17531055.2010.517424 |
| OpenAlex | W2130256944 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 15 |
In Kenya, witchcraft remains central to the intersecting arenas of politics and justice. Postcolonial case files of witchcraft-related crimes offer important insights into the ways that approaches and attitudes to witchcraft, politics, and justice have shifted since independence. High Court cases addressing witchcraft and electoral fraud underscore the fact that the occult is now thought of as a clear path to state power, rather than a challenge to it. In Kenya's high courts, cases of witchcraft-driven violence have involved complex shifts in the judiciary's willingness to negotiate with “local” attitudes towards witchcraft in assessing pleas for and against mitigation. These cases indicate that while the postcolonial courts take the existence and efficacy of witchcraft for granted in a way that their colonial predecessors certainly did not, they retain a circumspect approach to witchcraft when the primacy of state power in matters of politics and justice is at stake
Colonialism · Criminology · Economic Justice · Independence (probability theory · Negotiation · Occult · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Sociology · State (computer science · Historical Economic and Social Studies · Historical Psychiatry and Medical Practices · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · Law
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Witchcraft and Colonial Law in Kenya
Motive Rather than Means
Oaths, Ordeals, and the Kenyan Courts
The extreme penalty of the law
White settlers and the law in early colonial Kenya
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,27 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2017 (7) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |