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SUMMARY:Peasants to Paupers: Land\, Class and Kinship in Central Kenya - P
 eter Lockwood (Göttingen)\, Professor David Anderson (University of Warwi
 ck)
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DESCRIPTION:Book launch & discussion with Peter Lockwood\n\nOn the norther
 n periphery of Nairobi\, in southern Kiambu County\, the city's expansion 
 into a landscape of poor smallholders is bringing new opportunities\, dile
 mmas\, and conflicts. Drawing on extensive ethnographic fieldwork\, Peter 
 Lockwood examines how Kiambu's 'workers with patches of land' struggle to 
 sustain their households as the skyrocketing price of land ratchets up gen
 dered and generational tensions within families. The sale of ancestral lan
 d by senior men turns would-be inheritors\, their young adult sons\, into 
 landless and land-poor paupers\, heightening their exposure to economic pr
 ecarity. Peasants to Paupers illuminates how these dynamics are lived at t
 he site of kinship\, how moral principles of patrilineal obligation and la
 nd retention fail in the face of market opportunity. Caught between jobles
 sness\, land poverty and the breakdown of kinship\, the book shows how Kia
 mbu's young men struggle to sustain hopes for middle-class lifestyles as t
 he economic ground shifts beneath their feet.\nhttps://doi.org/10.1017/978
 1009643467 (Open Access)\n\nDr Peter Lockwood is a Post-doctoral researche
 r at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology\, at Göttingen Uni
 versity. Peter is an economic and political anthropologist whose research 
 sits at the intersection of political economy\, kinship studies\, and mora
 l economy. His work examines the contradictions produced by a ‘rentier
 ’ or ‘asset’ form of capitalism characterised by possession rather t
 han production\, one that simultaneously renders people’s labour surplus
  to its requirements.\n\nProf David M. Anderson FBA is Professor of Africa
 n History in the Global History & Culture Centre at the University of Warw
 ick. He has published widely on the history and politics of eastern Africa
 .\nSpeakers:\nPeter Lockwood (Göttingen)\, Professor David Anderson (Univ
 ersity of Warwick)
LOCATION:13 Bevington Road (Seminar Room\, African Studies Centre)\, 13 Be
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