Land makes me feel so secure
Property, dependence and escape from 'wageless life' on Nairobi's peri-urbanizing peripheries
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4569447 |
|---|---|
| Authors | P Lockwood (0000-0003-4326-8501, University of Manchester) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 54 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 1-22 |
| Publication date | 2025-09-29 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Economy and Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0308-5147 • E-ISSN: 1469-5766 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/03085147.2025.2547504 |
| OpenAlex | W4414611592 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 34 |
African history and culture studies · Urban and Rural Development Challenges · Urban Planning and Governance
The Allocation of responsibility.
Land’s End
The African Poor
Marxist Analyses and Social Anthropology
Powers of Exclusion
Nairobi Becoming
Being Unemployed in Northern Ireland
The Time of Youth
Building Legacies
Impatient Accumulation, Immediate Consumption
Urban way of life as survival
Road Corridors as Real Estate Frontiers
Plot by Plot
Wordy Women
The Act of Living
Recognising the family house
The Kenya peasantry
The Quest for the Good Life in Precarious Times
Owning towards death
After Development
Scrounger, Worker, Beggarman, Cheat
Patchwork ethnography
He who relies on relatives and friends die poor
Rethinking the concept of labour
Declarations of dependence
Assets and domestic units
The Importance of Being Serious
Ironies of accomplishment
Providing to belong
Harnessing the 'hustle
Labour, laziness and distribution
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |