Table des matières
Marie-Aude Fouéré
PrefaceChristian Thibon
Catriona Bell (trad.)
Introduction
To the Test of Social and Political Violence: From the Kenya of Millionaires and Millions of Beggars to the Three Kenyas of the Twenty-First Century- 1. The Poverty-Growth-Inequalities Triangle
- 2. The “Two Kenyas”: Two Worlds, Two Social Spaces
- 3. Two, Three Kenyas Put to the Test of Reforms, Efforts for Well-Being, and the Challenges of Public Policy
- 4. Kenya without a Social or National Pact, in the Grip of Symbolic Violence
- 5. Ethnicised Social Relations: Has Ethnicity Replaced Class?
- Conclusion
Hervé Maupeu
Devon Winters, Ana de Oliveira et Daniel Persia (trad.)
Chapter 1
State, Economy and Development in Kenya- 1. “Patron-Client Capitalism” during the First Decades of Independent Kenya (1963–1992)
- Capitalism vs Socialism during the Critical Juncture of the 1960s
- State and Capitalism during the Kenyatta Era (1963–1978)
- 2. Uncertain Democratisation and Kleptocracy during the Second Phase of the Moi Era (1992–2002)
- 3. In Search of a Developmental State
- LAPSSET as a Major National Integration Policy of the North-East
- Mombasa-Nairobi-Naivasha-Kisumu Standard Gauge Railway (SGR), the Spearhead of the Large-Scale Construction Policy
- Water and Large-Scale Works
- Kenya and the Oil Economy
- 4. Uhuru Kenyatta and the Big Four Agenda (2017–…)
- End of the Large-Scale Works Policy?
- The Big Four Agenda as a Way to Recentralise?
- Should We Believe in the Impact of the Big Four Agenda?
- Conclusion
Bernard Calas
Geoffrey D. Hilton, Elliot Brennan et Catherine S. Davis (trad.)
Chapter 2
The Large Gaps in Development in Kenya- 1. First Challenge: Demographic Transition
- Has Growth Changed the Spatial Distribution of the Kenyan Population?
- 2. Second Challenge: Structural Diversification
- Landscapes
- 3. Third Challenge: Environmental Sustainability in a context of Pressure on the Environment
- Towards a Green Kenya? The Energy Problem and the Electricity Mix
- A Rentier Future?
- 4. Fourth Challenge: Multiscale Integrations, Construction of the State, and National Solidarity
- Conclusion
Christian Thibon
Felix Lambrecht (trad.)
Chapter 3
Emerging Elites, Oligarchy, and the Kenyan Middle ClassesChloé Josse-Durand
Matteo Réveillon et Sarah Levy Klimpke (trad.)
Chapter 4
Between Hopes and Disillusionment: Constitutional Reforms and Decentralisation in Kenya, 2000–2020- 1. Decentralisation Grappled with the Turbulence of Kenya’s Political Life
- 2. The Principles of the New Decentralised Political System
- 3. Decentralisation in Practice: Actors and Apparatus of Local Politics
- Decentralised Governance, a Political Project of a Developmentalist State and its Elites
- Mode of Action of Local Elected Officials: The Members of County Assemblies (MCAs)
- Citizens’ Modes of Action: The Mixed Experience of a Decentralised “Participatory Development”
- 4. Decentralisation in Question: Political Ethnicity, Corruption and Inequality
- Towards Increased Ethnicisation of Politics
- Towards Acute Corruption at the Local Level?
- Recentralisation as a Response to the Strong Persistence of Inequalities between Counties?
- Conclusion: Decentralisation in Kenya, “Everyone’s Turn to Eat”?
Sylvain Racaud
Roxane Heidrich et Nathan Mwangi Kariuki (trad.)
Chapter 5
Low-Cost Business in Kenya from the City to the Countryside- 1. Commercial Spaces
- Nyeri and Kisumu: Two Densely Populated Agricultural Inland Cities
- The Organisation of Commercial Spaces
- 2. Access to Commercial Networks Rooted in the City and the Countryside
- Traders, Capital Accumulation, and Access to Commerce
- Activity System Based on City-Countryside Synergies
- 3. Mobility and Network Logic
- Within East African Villages, Cities, and Trading Posts
- Commercial Links Integrated into the Network Logics
- Conclusion: Between the Places and the “Mobile Spaces” of low-Cost Business
Francesca Di Matteo
Sara Stavchansky (trad.)
Chapter 6
The Politicisation of Land Policy Reform in Contemporary KenyaGaële Rouillé-Kielo
Gordana Petrovska Dojchinovska et Alex Lyons (trad.)
Chapter 7
Natural Resources Management in Kenya (Water and Forest)Centralised Policies, Between Exclusion and Participation of the Local Population
- Introduction
- 1. New Political and Ecological Concerns in the Protection of Kenya’s Forests
- Putting into Question the Control of the Central Government over the Forests
- A New Environmental Challenge: The “Rehabilitation” of Kenya’s Water Towers
- An Ambitious National Objective: Reaching over 10% Tree Cover
- 2. Despite the Reforms, Users’ Involvement Is still Limited
- Water and Forest Reforms in Kenya
- Persistent Centralism
- Who Is “Involved”?
- 3. New Challenges Related to Natural Resources Management within the Framework of the Devolution
- Constitutional Provisions concerning Natural Resources Management
- Natural Resources Management, a Coveted Financial Issue
- Conclusion
Jean-Baptiste Lanne
Sadie J. Mobley (trad.)
Chapter 8
Securing Everyday Nairobi: Challenges and Tactics of Private Security Guards in the Fragmented CityHélène Charton
Clare Rainey et Hannah Stauch (trad.)
Chapter 9
What Education for All in Kenya? The School of InequalitiesOlivier Provini
I.J. Walker (trad.)
Focus no. 2
The Regionalisation of University Systems: An Empty Shell?Yvan Droz et Yonatan N. Gez
Ellen Kibble, Francesca I. Kleine et Claire Hefty (trad.)
Chapter 10
Christian Forms of Religion in KenyaYonatan N. Gez
Focus no. 3
The Church as a Provider of Material Support: An Inner/Outer Circles PerspectiveJustin Willis et Hassan Mwakimako
Chapter 12
Kenya’s Coast: Religion, Race, Ethnicity and the Elusive Nature of Political CommunityPatrick O. Abungu et Clélia Coret
Stephanie Horsford (trad.)
Focus no. 4
History, Memory, and the Heritage of Slavery on the Kenyan Coast: The Witu and Shimoni CasesAnne-Marie Peatrik
Jane Womack et Sara Doel (trad.)
Chapter 13
Beyond its Whitewashed Past, the Unique Peoples of Precolonial KenyaMarie Pierre Ballarin
Keenya Hofmaier (trad.)
Focus no. 5
The Aravai Peoples, the Site of Rabai and its Sacred Forests on the Kenyan CoastDanielle de Lame
Chapter 14
Stage Dynamics: Presentation and Representation in the Nairobi Art MarketOlivier Marcel
Aoife Cunningham (trad.)
Focus no. 6
Into a “Global Encounter” from the Art Scene in Nairobi