{"id":2867,"date":"2008-01-27T16:48:52","date_gmt":"2008-01-27T21:48:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=2867"},"modified":"2008-01-27T16:48:52","modified_gmt":"2008-01-27T21:48:52","slug":"angelique-haugerud-kenya-spaces-of-hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=2867","title":{"rendered":"Angelique Haugerud: Kenya: spaces of hope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The way Kenyan citizens are living out and working through their country&#8217;s crisis offers insight into how boundaries of ethnicity, clan and class can be overcome, writes the anthropologist Angelique Haugerud.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.opendemocracy.net\/article\/democracy_power\/kenya_spaces_hope\">23 &#8211; 01 &#8211; 2008<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We cannot stop life for the sake of two people who are not in agreement&#8221; said a twenty-three year old Kenyan woman in Nairobi. The two men in question &#8211; Mwai Kibaki and Raila Odinga &#8211; both claim to have been elected president in the national vote on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.angus-reid.com\/tracker\/view\/14542\/kenya\">27 December 2007<\/a>. The incumbent Kibaki was sworn into a second term of office, and Odinga publicly challenges the legitimacy of the vote count.<\/p>\n<p>During their stand-off, more than 250,000 people have been displaced from their homes; police have shot and killed unarmed civilian protesters; vigilantes (some posing as traditional &#8220;warriors&#8221;) have prevented Red Cross food relief from reaching victims; police <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/africa\/7195642.stm\">fired<\/a> teargas into a hospital; and more than 650 people have died in violent conflicts, including some forty women and children who were <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/africa\/7166932.stm\">incinerated<\/a> in a church where they had taken refuge (on the background to some of these events, see Jeffrey Gettleman, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/01\/21\/world\/africa\/21kenya.html?ex=1358571600&amp;en=0826750b40eac26a&amp;ei=5088&amp;partner=rssnyt&amp;emc=rss\">Signs in Kenya That Killings Were Planned<\/a>,&#8221; <em>New York Times<\/em>, 21 January 2008). Food and fuel supplies have run short in Kenya and neighbouring countries.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.opendemocracy.net\/article\/democracy_power\/kenya_spaces_hope\">Read the article<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The way Kenyan citizens are living out and working through their country&#8217;s crisis offers insight into how boundaries of ethnicity, clan and class can be overcome, writes the anthropologist Angelique Haugerud. 23 &#8211; 01 &#8211; 2008 &#8220;We cannot stop life &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=2867\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-Kf","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2867\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}