Many Kenyans have embraced vigilante cops – an ineffective police force is to blame
(2022)
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Wairuri, K. (2022). Many Kenyans have embraced vigilante cops – an ineffective police force is to blame
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Book Review: Power, Politics and the Law by Githu Muigai (2022)
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Wairuri, K. (2022). Book Review: Power, Politics and the Law by Githu Muigai. [https://www.theelephant.info/long-reads/2022/11/14/book-review-power-politics-and-the-law-by-githu-muigai/]Prof Githu Muigai book, whose full title is Power, Politics and Law: Dynamics of constitutional change in Kenya, 1887- 2022 delves into the history of constitutional change from the colonial era to the present day, and will be found helpful by those... Read More about Book Review: Power, Politics and the Law by Githu Muigai.
Serving the regime: The state police and Kenya's electoral authoritarianism (2022)
Book Chapter
Wairuri, K. (2022). Serving the regime: The state police and Kenya's electoral authoritarianism. In J. Bach (Ed.), Routledge Handbook of the Horn of Africa (354-366). London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429426957-34This chapter seeks to understand the designation of Kenya as a competitive authoritarian state through an examination of the use of the state police to, as it were, police politics. The use of state security apparatuses to enhance the capacity of the... Read More about Serving the regime: The state police and Kenya's electoral authoritarianism.
‘Thieves Should not Live Amongst People’: Under-Protection and Popular Support for Police Violence in Nairobi (2022)
Journal Article
Wairuri, K. (2022). ‘Thieves Should not Live Amongst People’: Under-Protection and Popular Support for Police Violence in Nairobi. African affairs; journal of the Royal African Society, 121(482), 61-79. https://doi.org/10.1093/afraf/adac006This paper examines how communities at the urban margins, who are under-protected by the state police, understand police reforms through an examination of the unusual case of street protests in support of a police officer who had killed two young men... Read More about ‘Thieves Should not Live Amongst People’: Under-Protection and Popular Support for Police Violence in Nairobi.
Merely Revealing: Transgender People and the Shift from ‘MSM’ to ‘Key Populations’ in HIV/AIDS Programming in Africa (2021)
Book Chapter
Camminga, . B., & Wairuri, K. (2021). Merely Revealing: Transgender People and the Shift from ‘MSM’ to ‘Key Populations’ in HIV/AIDS Programming in Africa. In D. S. Ndlovu, & S. Cooper-Knock (Eds.), Liberating Comparisons? Reconsidering Comparative Approaches (98-108). York: York Tree Publications
Andrew Faull, Police Work and Identity: a South African ethnography. Abingdon: Routledge (hb £115 – 978 1 138 23329 4). 2018, xxix + 200 pp. (2020)
Journal Article
Wairuri, K. (2020). Andrew Faull, Police Work and Identity: a South African ethnography. Abingdon: Routledge (hb £115 – 978 1 138 23329 4). 2018, xxix + 200 pp. Africa, 90(4), 799-800. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0001972020000388Abstract not available.
“Operation Sanitize Eastleigh”: Rethinking Interventions to Counter Violent Extremism (2020)
Book Chapter
Wairuri, K. (2020). “Operation Sanitize Eastleigh”: Rethinking Interventions to Counter Violent Extremism. In M. Ruteere, & P. Mutahi (Eds.), Confronting Violent Extremism in Kenya: Debates, Ideas and Challenges (135-150). Nairobi, Kenya: Centre for Human Rights and Policy Studies
Urban Violence in Nakuru County, Kenya (2018)
Report
Wairuri, K., Chemlali, A., & Ruteree, M. (2018). Urban Violence in Nakuru County, Kenya. DIGNITYRapid urbanisation has led to an increase in the prevalence of urban violence in many developing countries. This is because of the mushrooming of densely populated informal settlements in cities, which are characterized by deprivation and low quality... Read More about Urban Violence in Nakuru County, Kenya.
Riding the crest of the wave? The 2017 election and stagnation of Kenya’s democratization process (2017)
Report
Wairuri, K. (2017). Riding the crest of the wave? The 2017 election and stagnation of Kenya’s democratization process. CEDEJ, Khartoum & Centre de recherches internationales (CERI), Sciences PoThe intense drama that has characterised Kenya’s 2017 electoral cycle has generated a debate over whether Kenya has slid back to authoritarian rule or is a resilient democracy firmly on the path to democratisation. This briefing wades into this d... Read More about Riding the crest of the wave? The 2017 election and stagnation of Kenya’s democratization process.
Explaining and Mitigating Elections-Related Violence and Human Rights Violations in Kenya (2015)
Book Chapter
Ruteere, M., & Wairuri, K. (2015). Explaining and Mitigating Elections-Related Violence and Human Rights Violations in Kenya. In K. Njogu, & P. Wafula Wekesa (Eds.), Kenya's 2013 General Election: Stakes, Practices and Outcomes (112-123). Twaweza Communications. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvh8r0bc.12Much of the literature on human rights and elections-related violence in Kenya focuses on the patterns and nature of the human rights violations and assessment of the relevant norms that these acts transgress. Explanations of why the violations occur... Read More about Explaining and Mitigating Elections-Related Violence and Human Rights Violations in Kenya.