Kamau Wairuri- University of Edinburgh
Kamau Wairuri
- University of Edinburgh
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Kamau Wairuri is currently a PhD Candidate at the Centre for African Studies (CAS), The University of Edinburgh. His research interest is on the politics of criminal justice (in Africa). His current research examines how people at Kenya's urban margins respond to victimisation by the police. The research focuses on the experiences of poor young men, political protesters and female sex workers and queer people.
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This 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 in Githurai in Nairobi. I explore how the under-protection of communities at the urban margins by t...
Andrew Faull, Police Work and Identity: a South African ethnography. Abingdon: Routledge (hb £115 – 978 1 138 23329 4). 2018, xxix + 200 pp. - Volume 90 Issue 4 - Kamau Wairuri
The 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 debate arguing that, neither a democracy nor an authoritarian regime, Kenya remains a competitive-authori...
The 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 debate arguing that, neither a democracy nor an authoritarian regime, Kenya remains a competitive-autho...
