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Kakuma Refugee Camp - Humanitarian Urbanism in Kenya's Accidental City (Hardcover)
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Kakuma Refugee Camp - Humanitarian Urbanism in Kenya's Accidental City (Hardcover)
Series: Politics and Development in Contemporary Africa
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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.
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