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SUMMARY:Contested Sovereignty: Planners\, Residents and Chinese-led urban 
 Development in Nairobi\, Kenya - Dr Elisa Tamburo (University of Oxford)
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DESCRIPTION:This talk examines Nairobi’s contemporary processes of city-
 making to show how sovereignty is negotiated beyond the bounds of the Keny
 an nation-state. Since the early 2000s\, the rise of Chinese private const
 ruction firms in Nairobi has significantly reshaped how the city is planne
 d\, built\, and inhabited. Chinese-led urban development not only fragment
 s the perspectives and social positioning of the Kenyan urban middle class
 \, but also exposes divergent – and at times conflicting –interests am
 ong Chinese actors themselves. Drawing on eight months of ethnographic fie
 ldwork in Nairobi\, Dr Tamburo analyses the effects of private Chinese fin
 ancial engagement in the city\, asking which contested visions of urban fu
 tures emerge. By carefully distinguishing among different stakeholders –
  builders\, residents\, and municipal authorities – Dr Tamburo argues fo
 r moving beyond nation-centred analyses of sovereignty. Focusing on the sc
 ale of the city opens new vantage points on the broader forces that shape 
 Nairobi’s future and reveals how these visions frequently diverge from t
 hose that urban dwellers imagine and aspire to.\n\nDr Elisa Tamburo is a s
 ocial anthropologist and Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Postdoctoral Fello
 w\, jointly appointed in the Department of Anthropology at Harvard and the
  School of Geography and the Environment at Oxford. Her current research p
 roject\, ‘Negotiating the City’\, explores urban planning and everyday
  dwelling in Nairobi\, Kenya\, amid the rapid expansion of China-built urb
 an infrastructure. Her work has appeared in international peer-reviewed jo
 urnals such as the JRAI\, Focaal\, and the Journal of Current Chinese Affa
 irs. Elisa is currently revising her first book manuscript\, Exiled in the
  City\, for Cornell University Press. She received her PhD in Social Anthr
 opology from SOAS\, University of London\, in 2019\nSpeakers:\nDr Elisa Ta
 mburo (University of Oxford)
LOCATION:Dickson Poon Building (Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre)\, Canterbury
  Road OX2 6LU
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