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Lived Dynamics of Insecurity: Fragility, Embodiment and Precarity in Kilifi County, Kenya
Lived Dynamics of Insecurity: Fragility, Embodiment and Precarity in Kilifi County, Kenya
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- 자료유형
- 학위논문 서양
- 최종처리일시
- 20260202105237
- ISBN
- 9798291567982
- DDC
- 363.7
- 서명/저자
- Lived Dynamics of Insecurity: Fragility, Embodiment and Precarity in Kilifi County, Kenya
- 발행사항
- [Sl] : University of Michigan, 2025
- 발행사항
- Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2025
- 형태사항
- 180 p
- 주기사항
- Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 87-03, Section: B.
- 주기사항
- Advisor: Butt, Bilal.
- 학위논문주기
- Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Michigan, 2025.
- 초록/해제
- 요약Insecurity is often measured in material terms-income, infrastructure, assets. Yet, for those living in precarious environments, it is also emotional, embodied, and relational. This dissertation examines the everyday dynamics of insecurity in Kilifi County, Kenya, drawing on twenty-one months of ethnographic fieldwork to foreground the affective and gendered dimensions of survival amid structural fragility. Through a feminist political ecology lens, it explores how insecurity is lived, felt, and negotiated across domains of water, work, and well-being.The project is organized around three interlinked chapters that together trace the textures of precarity in Kilifi: the embodied labor of navigating unreliable water infrastructure; the emotional and cognitive calculations entailed in making difficult livelihood decisions; and the subjective assessments of security shaped by social comparison, memory, and aspiration. Across these chapters, the dissertation develops three cross-cutting analytical themes: (1) fragility and precarity, examining how broken or absent systems-whether infrastructural, economic, or institutional-produce uneven burdens and persistent uncertainty; (2) embodiment and emotion, emphasizing the physical and emotional toll of managing risk and scarcity; and (3) agency and adaptation, attending to the creative, affective, and often invisible forms of labor that sustain life in uncertain conditions.Situated within broader debates in political ecology, development studies, and feminist geography, this research challenges technocratic understandings of insecurity by highlighting how gender, power, and emotion shape people's relationships to infrastructure, livelihoods, and imagined futures. It argues that to understand what it means to be secure-or insecure-we must attend not only to what people lack, but to how they feel, decide, and care within systems that are unstable, unequal, and often unjust. In doing so, the dissertation advances a place-based, relational account of insecurity that recognizes the nuanced ways people endure, resist, and imagine possibilities within precarious worlds.
- 일반주제명
- Environmental justice
- 일반주제명
- Ecology
- 일반주제명
- Political science
- 일반주제명
- Womens studies
- 키워드
- Fragility
- 키워드
- Insecurity
- 키워드
- Water security
- 기타저자
- University of Michigan Resource Policy & Behavior PhD
- 기본자료저록
- Dissertations Abstracts International. 87-03B.
- 전자적 위치 및 접속
- 로그인 후 원문을 볼 수 있습니다.
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■5021 ▼aThesis (Ph.D.)--University of Michigan, 2025.
■520 ▼aInsecurity is often measured in material terms-income, infrastructure, assets. Yet, for those living in precarious environments, it is also emotional, embodied, and relational. This dissertation examines the everyday dynamics of insecurity in Kilifi County, Kenya, drawing on twenty-one months of ethnographic fieldwork to foreground the affective and gendered dimensions of survival amid structural fragility. Through a feminist political ecology lens, it explores how insecurity is lived, felt, and negotiated across domains of water, work, and well-being.The project is organized around three interlinked chapters that together trace the textures of precarity in Kilifi: the embodied labor of navigating unreliable water infrastructure; the emotional and cognitive calculations entailed in making difficult livelihood decisions; and the subjective assessments of security shaped by social comparison, memory, and aspiration. Across these chapters, the dissertation develops three cross-cutting analytical themes: (1) fragility and precarity, examining how broken or absent systems-whether infrastructural, economic, or institutional-produce uneven burdens and persistent uncertainty; (2) embodiment and emotion, emphasizing the physical and emotional toll of managing risk and scarcity; and (3) agency and adaptation, attending to the creative, affective, and often invisible forms of labor that sustain life in uncertain conditions.Situated within broader debates in political ecology, development studies, and feminist geography, this research challenges technocratic understandings of insecurity by highlighting how gender, power, and emotion shape people's relationships to infrastructure, livelihoods, and imagined futures. It argues that to understand what it means to be secure-or insecure-we must attend not only to what people lack, but to how they feel, decide, and care within systems that are unstable, unequal, and often unjust. In doing so, the dissertation advances a place-based, relational account of insecurity that recognizes the nuanced ways people endure, resist, and imagine possibilities within precarious worlds.
■590 ▼aSchool code: 0127.
■650 4▼aEnvironmental justice
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■650 4▼aPolitical science
■650 4▼aWomens studies
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■653 ▼aEnvironmental change
■653 ▼aInsecurity
■653 ▼aWater security
■653 ▼aLivelihood security
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■85640▼uhttp://www.riss.kr/pdu/ddodLink.do?id=T17359931▼nKERIS▼z이 자료의 원문은 한국교육학술정보원에서 제공합니다.


