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Bulldozers, homes and highways: Nairobi and the right to the city

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  • Ambreena Manji

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In Kenya road building, widely viewed as an 'unqualified human good', is closely linked to an 'Africa Rising' narrative. In this paper the author argues that road building is an attempt to assert political authority derived from a longstanding developmentalist impulse, one in which private accumulation and spectacular public works go hand in hand. In light of massive infrastructural transformations, the author develops a conceptualisation of the right to the city: what is needed is a radical understanding of the city and its potentialities that wrests control of the idea away from a bureaucratic vision, and imbues it instead with collective meaning.

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  • Ambreena Manji, 2015. "Bulldozers, homes and highways: Nairobi and the right to the city," Review of African Political Economy, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 42(144), pages 206-224, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:revape:v:42:y:2015:i:144:p:206-224
    DOI: 10.1080/03056244.2014.988698
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    1. Wangui Kimari, 2018. "Activists, care work, and the ‘cry of the ghetto’ in Nairobi, Kenya," Palgrave Communications, Palgrave Macmillan, vol. 4(1), pages 1-7, December.
    2. Constance Smith, 2017. "‘Our Changes’? Visions of the Future in Nairobi," Urban Planning, Cogitatio Press, vol. 2(1), pages 31-40.
    3. Lauren Rosenberg & Alan Brent, 2020. "Infrastructure Disruption in ‘Silicon Savannah’: Exploring the Idea of the Creative Class and their Relation to Quality of Place in Nairobi, Kenya," International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 44(5), pages 809-820, September.

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