Home of last resort: Urban land conflict and the Nubians in Kibera, Kenya:

摘要: Amid expansive and often informal urban growth, conflict over land has become a severe source of instability in many cities. In slum areas, policies intended to alleviate tensions, including upgrading programmes, the legal regulation tenure arrangements, reform local governance structures, have had unintended consequence also spurring violence conflict. This paper analyses proposed ‘ethnic homeland’ for Nubian community Kibera Nairobi, Kenya, order advance knowledge on strategies communities adopt promote their interests how such impact management. Theoretically, we apply perspective ‘institutional bricolage’, which captures actors make use existing formal structures pragmatic ways meet management needs. While previous research focuses primarily bricolage can facilitate cooperation, case analysis uncovers how, time, ...