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Life in a Hotter World: Navigating, Mastering and Metabolising Heat in and Around Nakuru, Kenya

Boek - Dissertatie

This ethnography deals with following question: how does 'heat', understood as a cultural artefact, relate to the daily lives of people and how does it contribute to the production of new ideas about being and becoming in a Kenyan secondary city? It sheds light on urban life in Nakuru, a vibrant secondary Kenyan city of 610 000 inhabitants situated 160 km Northwest of Nairobi, and is based on 18 months of ethnographic research. Fieldwork focused on how people in Nakuru made sense of their urban lifeworlds, yet did so with 'heat' as a leitmotiv illuminating different understandings about a variety of opposing or cohesive uses, ideas and/or meanings of technologies, symbols, and substances that flow through the city.
Jaar van publicatie:2021
Toegankelijkheid:Closed