Journal of Eastern African Studies

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Volume 11, issue 4, 2017

Marx in campus: print cultures, nationalism and student activism in the late 1970s Kenya pp. 571-589

Duncan Omanga and Kipkosgei Arap Buigutt

Dirty things: spiritual pollution and life after the Lord’s Resistance Army pp. 590-608

Letha Victor and Holly Porter

Shifting trajectories of inter-ethnic relations in Western Ethiopia: a case study from Gidda and Kiremu districts in East Wollega pp. 609-627

Zelalem Teferra

“In the interests of justice?” The International Criminal Court, peace talks and the failed quest for war crimes accountability in northern Uganda pp. 628-648

Anna Macdonald

The ghost in the news room: the legacy of Kenya’s 2007 post-election violence and the constraints on journalists covering Kenya’s 2013 General Election pp. 649-669

Lisa Weighton and Patrick McCurdy

The vulnerability and resilience of smallholder-inclusive agricultural investments in Tanzania pp. 670-691

Jennifer J. West and Ruth Haug

New institutional formation in the intersection of Tanzanian decentralization and HIV/AIDS interventions pp. 692-713

Catherine A. Long

From protection to repression: the politics of street vending in Kampala pp. 714-733

Graeme Young

Resisting resettlement in Rwanda: rethinking dichotomies of “survival”/“resistance” and “dominance”/“subordination” pp. 734-750

Gumira Joseph Hahirwa, Camilla Orjuela and Stellan Vinthagen

Editorial Board pp. ebi-ebi

The Editors

Volume 11, issue 3, 2017

Implementing the Women, Peace and Security agenda? Somali debates on women’s public roles and political participation pp. 389-407

Cindy Horst

Land use plans in Tanzania: repertoires of domination or solutions to rising farmer–herder conflicts? pp. 408-424

William John Walwa

Developing the racial city: conflict, solidarity and urban traders in late-colonial Mombasa pp. 425-441

Devin Smart

Jomo Kenyatta and the repression of the ‘last’ Mau Mau leaders, 1961–1965 pp. 442-459

Anaïs Angelo

The Maasai age system and the Loonkidongi prophets pp. 460-481

Paul Spencer and Richard Waller

Nothing succeeds like success narratives: a case of conservation and development in the time of REDD pp. 482-505

Hanne Svarstad and Tor A. Benjaminsen

The bricolage of REDD+ in Zanzibar: from global environmental policy framework to community forest management pp. 506-525

Grete Benjaminsen

REDD+ as ‘inclusive’ neoliberal conservation: the case of Lindi, Tanzania pp. 526-548

Andreas Scheba and Suraya Scheba

When community forestry meets REDD+: has REDD+ helped address implementation barriers to participatory forest management in Tanzania? pp. 549-570

Tom Blomley, Karen Edwards, Stephano Kingazi, Kahana Lukumbuzya, Merja Mäkelä and Lauri Vesa

Volume 11, issue 2, 2017

Subject(s) to control: post-war return migration and state-building in 1970s South Sudan pp. 211-229

Nicki Kindersley

Border diplomacy and state-building in north-western Ethiopia, c. 1965–1977 pp. 230-248

Luca Puddu

Race, religion and resistance: revelations from the Juba archive pp. 249-265

Christopher Tounsel

Global and local forces in deindustrialization: the case of cotton cloth in East Africa’s Lower Shire Valley pp. 266-289

Katharine Frederick

‘Facing conservation’ or ‘conservation with a human face’? People–park interactions in southern Ethiopia pp. 290-309

Genaye Tsegaye, Stefaan Dondeyne, Mulugeta Lemenih, Abraham Marye, Jan Nyssen, Jozef A. Deckers and Miet Maertens

When ‘chemo is failing’ … ‘the illness is indigenous’. Therapeutic pluralism and reclaiming agency: family cancer caregivers’ experiences in Nairobi pp. 310-328

Jennifer Nyawira Githaiga

Dance performances in post-genocide Rwanda: remaking identity, reconnecting present and past pp. 329-346

Carine Plancke

Discussing community-based outreach activities by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda pp. 347-366

Philipp Schulz

Legitimising the Juba peace Agreement on Accountability and Reconciliation: the International Criminal Court as a third-party actor? pp. 367-387

Line Engbo Gissel

Volume 11, issue 1, 2017

Ten years of JEAS pp. 1-2

Michael Jennings, James Brennan, Richard Vokes and Jason Mosley

Beyond the artisanal mining site: migration, housing capital accumulation and indirect urbanization in East Africa pp. 3-23

Jesper Bosse Jønsson and Deborah Fahy Bryceson

(Re)making politics in a new urban Ethiopia: an empirical reading of the right to the city in Addis Ababa’s condominiums pp. 24-45

Sabine Planel and Marie Bridonneau

‘Buying a path’: rethinking resistance in Rwanda pp. 46-63

Will Rollason

Contesting the militarization of the places where they met: the landscapes of the western Nuer and Dinka (South Sudan) pp. 64-85

Naomi Pendle

‘Those who are not known, should be known by the country’: patriotic history and the politics of recognition in southern Zimbabwe pp. 86-114

Joseph Mujere, Munyaradzi Elton Sagiya and Joost Fontein

The spectacle of death: visibility and concealment at an unfinished memorial in South Sudan pp. 115-132

Zoe Cormack

Rebuilding the liberation war base: materiality and landscapes of violence in Northern Zimbabwe pp. 133-150

Edmore Chitukutuku

Exile biography and un-national history: the story of Kaufilwa Nepelilo pp. 151-165

Christian A. Williams

Loyalty and liberation: the political life of Zephaniah Moyo pp. 166-187

Jocelyn Alexander

The politics of the Luweero skulls: the making of memorial heritage and post-revolutionary state legitimacy over the Luweero mass graves in Uganda pp. 188-209

Pauline Bernard

Volume 10, issue 4, 2016

Party, patronage and coercion in the NRM’S 2016 re-election in Uganda: imposed or embedded? pp. 581-600

Richard Vokes and Sam Wilkins

The master of institutional multiplicity? The shifting politics of regime survival, state-building and democratisation in Museveni’s Uganda pp. 601-618

Frederick Golooba-Mutebi and Sam Hickey

Who pays for pakalast? The NRM’s peripheral patronage in rural Uganda pp. 619-638

Sam Wilkins

From the electoral battleground to the parliamentary arena: understanding intra-elite bargaining in Uganda’s National Resistance Movement pp. 639-659

Michaela Collord

Primaries, patronage, and political personalities in South-western Uganda pp. 660-676

Richard Vokes

Religious (de)politicisation in Uganda’s 2016 elections pp. 677-692

Henni Alava and Jimmy Spire Ssentongo

Where the wild things are not: crime preventers and the 2016 Ugandan elections pp. 693-712

Rebecca Tapscott

Partisan defections in contemporary Uganda: the micro-dynamics of hegemonic party-building pp. 713-728

Sandrine Perrot

Managing elite defection in Museveni’s Uganda: the 2016 elections in perspective pp. 729-748

Moses Khisa

Challenging dominance: the opposition, the coalition and the 2016 election in Uganda pp. 749-768

Nicole Beardsworth

“Land belongs to the people of Uganda”: politicians’ use of land issues in the 2016 election campaigns pp. 769-788

Lotte Meinert and Anne Mette Kjær

A history of the heritage economy in Yoweri Museveni’s Uganda pp. 789-806

Derek R. Peterson

Volume 10, issue 3, 2016

The creation of Lubaland: missionary science and Christian literacy in the making of the Luba Katanga in Belgian Congo pp. 367-392

David Maxwell

‘How come others are selling our land?’ Customary land rights and the complex process of land acquisition in Tanzania pp. 393-412

Martina Locher

Education and extraversion: naming, valuing and contesting ‘modern’ and ‘indigenous’ knowledge in post-war Somaliland pp. 413-433

Christina J. Woolner

Countering threats, stabilising politics and selling hope: examining the Agaciro concept as a response to a critical juncture in Rwanda pp. 434-451

Pritish Behuria

Frontier transformations: development visions, spaces and processes in Northern Kenya and Southern Ethiopia pp. 452-475

Jason Mosley and Elizabeth E. Watson

‘The land does not like them’: contesting dispossession in cosmological terms in Mela, south-west Ethiopia pp. 476-493

Lucie Buffavand

The road to Kenya?: Visions, expectations and anxieties around new infrastructure development in Northern Kenya pp. 494-510

Hassan H. Kochore

Planning, property and plots at the gateway to Kenya’s ‘new frontier’ pp. 511-529

Hannah Elliott

Land-use change, territorial restructuring, and economies of anticipation in dryland Kenya pp. 530-547

Clemens Greiner

The promotion of pastoralist heritage and alternative ‘visions’ for the future of Northern Kenya pp. 548-567

Zoe Cormack

The Kuraz Sugar Development Project (KSDP) in Ethiopia: between ‘sweet visions’ and mounting challenges pp. 568-580

Benedikt Kamski

Volume 10, issue 2, 2016

Agricultural frontier, land tenure changes and conflicts along the Gucha-Trans Mara boundary in Kenya pp. 229-246

Valérie Golaz and Claire Médard

Spies, stonework, and the suuq: Somali nationalism and the narrative politics of pro-Harakat Al Shabaab Al Mujaahidiin online propaganda pp. 247-265

Peter Chonka

Politics in everyday Kenyan street-life: the people’s parliament in Mombasa, Kenya pp. 266-283

Stephanie Diepeveen

The skull of Mkwawa and the politics of indirect rule in Tanganyika pp. 284-302

Jesse Bucher

The return of ‘high modernism’? Exploring the changing development paradigm through a Rwandan case study of dam construction pp. 303-324

Barnaby Dye

Food culture and child-feeding practices in Njombe and Mvomero districts, Tanzania pp. 325-342

Devota J. B. Mwaseba, Randi Kaarhus and Zebedayo S. K. Mvena

Victoire in Kigali, or: why Rwandan elections are not won transnationally pp. 343-365

Will Jones

Volume 10, issue 1, 2016

Resilience and collapse: histories, ecologies, conflicts and identities in the Baringo-Bogoria basin, Kenya pp. 1-20

David M. Anderson and Michael Bollig

Adaptive cycles in the savannah: pastoral specialization and diversification in northern Kenya pp. 21-44

Michael Bollig

The beginning of time? Evidence for catastrophic drought in Baringo in the early nineteenth century pp. 45-66

David M. Anderson

Landscape, time and cultural resilience: a brief history of agriculture in Pokot and Marakwet, Kenya pp. 67-87

Matthew I. J. Davies and Henrietta L. Moore

Changes in landscape vegetation, forage plant composition and herding structure in the pastoralist livelihoods of East Pokot, Kenya pp. 88-110

Hauke-Peter Vehrs

Land-use changes and the invasion dynamics of shrubs in Baringo pp. 111-129

Mathias Becker, Miguel Alvarez, Gereon Heller, Paul Leparmarai, Damaris Maina, Itambo Malombe, Michael Bollig and Hauke Vehrs

Agricultural change at the margins: adaptation and intensification in a Kenyan dryland pp. 130-149

Clemens Greiner and Innocent Mwaka

Comparative nutritional indicators as markers for resilience: the impacts of low-intensity violence among three pastoralist communities of northern Kenya pp. 150-167

Ivy L. Pike, Bilinda Straight, Charles Hilton and Matthias Österle

“Dust people”: Samburu perspectives on disaster, identity, and landscape pp. 168-188

Bilinda Straight, Paul Lane, Charles Hilton and Musa Letua

A victory in theory, loss in practice: struggles for political representation in the Lake Baringo-Bogoria Basin, Kenya pp. 189-207

Peter D. Little

What's in a name? The politics of naming ethnic groups in Kenya's Cherangany Hills pp. 208-227

Gabrielle Lynch