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Durable conversions: Property, aspiration, and inequality in urban northern Kenya
Economic Anthropology ( IF 1.236 ) Pub Date : 2021-08-18 , DOI: 10.1002/sea2.12223
Hannah Elliott 1
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In Isiolo, a northern Kenyan town earmarked for development as part of a large-scale infrastructure project, the value of land has increased dramatically. Local residents with insecure tenure at the town's edges were selling off plots at ever-rising prices. Yet the money generated was renowned for its rapid expenditure, leaving the holder with little to show for the sale. This article examines the discourse of “selling and building,” whereby residents aspired to discipline flighty money generated through land sale by converting it into durable investments. In particular, selling and building was seen as a means of strengthening individual property claims: By selling a little land, one could invest the money it yielded in the remainder, most often by building a “permanent” house. Yet “selling and building” was an individual, private property solution to the collective problem of insecure customary tenure and worked to gloss over and perpetuate inequalities among residents. The problems associated with the “money of plots” (pesa ya ploti), and struggles with building, attest to the complexity of property relations in urbanizing northern Kenya as historically collective and prospectively individual. Moreover, they illuminate residents' deep ambivalence about private property and the inequalities inherent to it.

中文翻译:

持久的转变:肯尼亚北部城市的财产、愿望和不平等

在肯尼亚北部的伊西奥洛小镇,作为大型基础设施项目的一部分,它被指定用于开发,土地价值急剧增加。在城镇边缘,土地使用权不稳定的当地居民正在以不断上涨的价格出售土地。然而,产生的钱以其快速支出而闻名,持有人几乎没有什么可出售的。本文考察了“销售和建设”的话语,居民渴望通过将土地销售产生的不正当资金转化为持久投资来约束其。特别是,出售和建造被视为加强个人财产要求的一种手段:通过出售一小块土地,人们可以将其产生的资金投资于剩余部分,通常是通过建造“永久性”房屋。然而,“销售和建设”是个人,私有财产解决了不安全的习惯使用权的集体问题,并努力掩盖和延续居民之间的不平等。与“地块钱”相关的问题(pesa ya ploti),以及与建筑的斗争,证明了肯尼亚北部城市化过程中财产关系的复杂性,在历史上是集体的,也是未来的个人。此外,它们阐明了居民对私有财产及其固有的不平等的深刻矛盾心理。
更新日期:2021-08-18
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