Jansen Bram J.
Jansen Bram J. - Kakuma Refugee Camp Humanitarian Urbanism In Kenya's Accidental City - Paperback
Jansen Bram J. - Kakuma Refugee Camp Humanitarian Urbanism In Kenya's Accidental City - Paperback
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Description: Kenya's Kakuma refugee camp is one of the world's largest home to over 100,000 people drawn from across east and central Africa. Though notionally still a temporary camp it has become a permanent urban space in all but name with businesses schools a hospital and its own court system. Such places Bram J. Jansen argues should be recognised as accidental cities a unique form of urbanization that has so far been overlooked by scholars. Based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork Jansen's book explores the dynamics of everyday life in such accidental cities. The result is a holistic socio - economic picture moving beyond the conventional view of such spaces as transitory and desolate to demonstrate how their inhabitants can develop a permanent society and a distinctive identity. Crucially the book offers important insights into one of the greatest challenges facing humanitarian and international development workers: how we might develop more effective strategies for managing refugee camps in the global South and beyond. An original take on African urbanism Kakuma Refugee Camp will appeal to practitioners and academics across the social sciences interested in social and economic issues increasingly at the heart of contemporary development.
Title: Kakuma Refugee Camp Humanitarian Urbanism In Kenya's Accidental City
Author(s): Jansen Bram J.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Barcode: 9781786991881
Pages: 248 Pages
Publication Date: 11/21/2019
Series: Politics and Development in Contemporary Africa
Category: Aid & Relief Programmes
Description: Kenya's Kakuma refugee camp is one of the world's largest home to over 100,000 people drawn from across east and central Africa. Though notionally still a temporary camp it has become a permanent urban space in all but name with businesses schools a hospital and its own court system. Such places Bram J. Jansen argues should be recognised as accidental cities a unique form of urbanization that has so far been overlooked by scholars. Based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork Jansen's book explores the dynamics of everyday life in such accidental cities. The result is a holistic socio - economic picture moving beyond the conventional view of such spaces as transitory and desolate to demonstrate how their inhabitants can develop a permanent society and a distinctive identity. Crucially the book offers important insights into one of the greatest challenges facing humanitarian and international development workers: how we might develop more effective strategies for managing refugee camps in the global South and beyond. An original take on African urbanism Kakuma Refugee Camp will appeal to practitioners and academics across the social sciences interested in social and economic issues increasingly at the heart of contemporary development.
Title: Kakuma Refugee Camp Humanitarian Urbanism In Kenya's Accidental City
Author(s): Jansen Bram J.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Barcode: 9781786991881
Pages: 248 Pages
Publication Date: 11/21/2019
Series: Politics and Development in Contemporary Africa
Category: Aid & Relief Programmes
