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‘Only the people can defend this struggle’: the politics of the everyday, extrajudicial executions and civil society in Mathare, Kenya

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  • Peris S. Jones
  • Wangui Kimari
  • Kavita Ramakrishnan

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Though a perennial problem in postcolonial Kenya, extrajudicial executions (EJE) show few signs of ending and in recent years are even accelerating amongst young men in informal settlements. Avenues for legal, institutional and civil society redress, nominally expanded in recent years, display an ongoing tendency towards disconnection from the grassroots. A case study from Mathare, Nairobi, seeks explanations for the lack of urgency in addressing EJE and also the limited effectiveness of responses to them that are rooted in the political economy of interests of civil society actors, which tends to perpetuate these ‘excluded spaces’ of the slum. The authors do so, however, by exploring one particular struggle to show how frustration with civil society is being used by social justice activists to articulate ideas of ‘everyday’ violence to mobilise for change that disrupts the apparent normalisation of EJE.

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  • Peris S. Jones & Wangui Kimari & Kavita Ramakrishnan, 2017. "‘Only the people can defend this struggle’: the politics of the everyday, extrajudicial executions and civil society in Mathare, Kenya," Review of African Political Economy, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 44(154), pages 559-576, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:revape:v:44:y:2017:i:154:p:559-576
    DOI: 10.1080/03056244.2016.1269000
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    Cited by:

    1. Naomi Stapele, 2021. "‘When the Numbers Stop Adding’: Imagining Futures in Perilous Presents Among Youth in Nairobi Ghettos," The European Journal of Development Research, Palgrave Macmillan;European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI), vol. 33(1), pages 130-146, February.
    2. 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.
    3. Peris Jones & Wangui Kimari, 2019. "Security beyond the men: Women and their everyday security apparatus in Mathare, Nairobi," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 56(9), pages 1835-1849, July.

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