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   Normative, Agitated, and Rebellious Femininities among East and Central African Refugee Women

   Jaji, Rose. 2015. “Normative, Agitated, and Rebellious Femininities among East and Central African Refugee Women.” Gender, Place & Culture 22 (4): 494–509. doi:10.1080/0966369X.2014.885886.

    

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   Topics: Displacement & Migration, Refugees, Gender, Femininity/ies Regions: Africa, Central Africa, East Africa Countries: Kenya Keywords: femininity, refugee women, vulnerability, self-policing, resistance, opportunities

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   Gender, Poverty and Violence: Transitional Justice Responses to Converging Processes of Domination of Women in Eastern DRC, Northern Uganda and Kenya

   Fiske, Lucy, and Rita Shackel. 2015. “Gender, Poverty and Violence: Transitional Justice Responses to Converging Processes of Domination of Women in Eastern DRC, Northern Uganda and Kenya.” Women’s Studies International Forum 51 (July): 110–17. doi:10.1016/j.wsif.2014.11.008.

    

    

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   Topics: Economies, Economic Inequality, Poverty, Gender, Gender-Based Violence, Justice, Transitional Justice, Violence Regions: Africa, Central Africa, East Africa Countries: Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Uganda

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   “Unsound” Minds and Broken Bodies: the Detention of “Hardcore” Mau Mau Women at Kamiti and Gitamayu Detention Camps in Kenya, 1954–1960

   Bruce-Lockhart, Katherine. 2014. “‘Unsound’ Minds and Broken Bodies: The Detention of ‘Hardcore’ Mau Mau Women at Kamiti and Gitamayu Detention Camps in Kenya, 1954–1960.” Journal of Eastern African Studies 8 (4): 590–608. doi:10.1080/17531055.2014.948148.

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   Topics: Coloniality/Post-Coloniality, Gender, Women, Violence Regions: Africa, East Africa Countries: Kenya Keywords: Mau Mau Rebellion, Kenya, colonial rule, violence, deviancy, ethnopsychiatry, detention, women

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   The Nairobi Declaration: Redefining Reparation for Women Victims of Sexual Violence

   Couillard, Valérie. 2007. “The Nairobi Declaration: Redefining Reparation for Women Victims of Sexual Violence.” International Journal of Transitional Justice 1 (3): 444–53. doi:10.1093/ijtj/ijm030.

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   Topics: Civil Society, Gender, Women, International Law, International Human Rights, International Humanitarian Law (IHL), Justice, Reparations, Sexual Violence, SV against Women Regions: Africa, East Africa Countries: Kenya

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   "Unsound" Minds and Broken Bodies: The Detention of "Hardcore" Mau Mau Women at Kamiti and Gitamayu Detention Camps in Kenya, 1954-1960

   Bruce-Lockart, Katherine. "Unsound" Minds and Broken Bodies: the Detention of "Hardcore" Mau Mau Women at Kamiti and Gitamayu Detention Camps in Kenya, 1954-1960. 2014. Journal of Eastern African Studies, 8(4), 590-608.

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   Topics: Gender, Women, Gender Roles, Violence Regions: Africa, East Africa Countries: Kenya Keywords: Mau Mau Rebellion, Kenya, colonial rule, violence, deviancy, ethno-psychiatry, detention, women

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   The Quest for Spatial Justice: From the Margins to the Centre

   Kinyanjui, Mary Njeri. 2014. "The Quest for Spatial Justice: From the Margins to the Centre." In Women and the Informal Economy in Urban Africa: From the Margins to the Centre, 87-98. London: Zed Books.   

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   Topics: Coloniality/Post-Coloniality, Displacement & Migration, Migration, Gender, Women, Livelihoods, Rights Regions: Africa, East Africa, Americas, South America Countries: Kenya, Peru

   

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   Poverty, Masculine Violence, and the Transformation of Men: Ethnographic Notes from Kenyan Slums

   Izugbara, Chimaraoke. 2011. “Poverty, Masculine Violence, and the Transformation of Men: Ethnographic Notes from Kenyan Slums.” In Men and Masculinities Around the World: Transforming Men’s Practices, 235–46. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US.

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   Topics: Gender, Men, Masculinity/ies, Livelihoods, Violence Regions: Africa, East Africa Countries: Kenya

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   Governing Mobility through Humanitarianism in Somalia: Compromising Protection for the Sake of Return

   Horst, Cindy, and Anab Ibrahim Nur. 2016. “Governing Mobility through Humanitarianism in Somalia: Compromising Protection for the Sake of Return.” Development and Change 47 (3): 542–62. doi:10.1111/dech.12233.

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   Topics: Displacement & Migration, Forced Migration, IDPs, Refugees, Gender, Women, Humanitarian Assistance Regions: Africa, East Africa Countries: Kenya, Somalia

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   "Go Back and Tell Them Who the Real Men Are!" Gendering Our Understanding of Kibera's Post-Election Violence

   Kihato, Caroline Wanjiku. 2015. “'Go Back and Tell Them Who the Real Men Are!' Gendering Our Understanding of Kibera’s Post-Election Violence.” International Journal of Conflict and Violence 9 (1): 12-24.

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   Topics: Class, Ethnicity, Gender, Masculinity/ies, Gender Roles, Femininity/ies, Gender-Based Violence, Gendered Power Relations, Masculinism, Governance, Elections, Sexual Violence, Rape, SV against Women Regions: Africa, East Africa Countries: Kenya Keywords: conflict, xenophobia, violence

   

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    A ‘Cartography of Concern’: Place-Making Practices and Gender in the Artisanal Mining Sector in Africa

    Huggins, Chris, Doris Buss, and Blair Rutherford. 2017. “A ‘Cartography of Concern’: Place-Making Practices and Gender in the Artisanal Mining Sector in Africa.” Geoforum 83 (July): 142–52. 
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    Topics: Economies, Extractive Industries, Feminisms, Gender, Gender Analysis Regions: Africa, Central Africa, East Africa Countries: Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya

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