Kenya's past as prologue : : voters, violence, and the 2013 general election /

Kenya's past as prologue : : voters, violence, and the 2013 general election / / edited by Christian Thibon [and three others].

Show other versions (1)

During the run-up to Kenya’s 2013 general elections, crucial political and civic questions were raised. Could past mistakes, especially political and ethnic-related violence, be avoided this time round? Would the spectre of the 2007 post-electoral violence positively or negatively affect debates and...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Superior document:Africae Studies
:
Institut français de recherche en Afrique.
TeilnehmendeR:
Thibon, Christian,
Institut français de recherche en Afrique.
Place / Publishing House:Nairobi, Kenya : : Twaweza Communications,, 2014.
©2014
Year of Publication:2014
Language:English
Series:Africae Studies
Physical Description:1 online resource (267 p.)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Table of Contents:
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgment
  • Introduction. Kenya's 2013 General Election: A National Event Set Between "The Inescapable" and "The Unforeseeable"
  • Against electoral doom-mongering
  • Navigating the inescapable and the unforeseeable
  • Exploring the particular to reach the general
  • The scope and limits of democratisation
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Kenyan Elections: When Does History Repeat Itself and Does Not Repeat Itself?
  • History does not repeat itself: Peaceful elections
  • In contrast, history stutters
  • Unknown post-election issues
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Kenyan Elections: The ICC, God and the 2013 Kenyan General Elections
  • Impunity of elites and ethnicisation
  • The ICC and the pentecostalisation of the political life
  • An impossible transitional justice?
  • Towards a postcolonial diplomacy?
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • The 4 March 2013 General Elections in Kenya: From Latent Tension to Contained Violence
  • Introduction
  • The shambolic candidate selection process
  • An apparently calm campaign
  • Voting outcomes cause localized violence
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Getting it "Wrong" (Again)? Wahojiwa vs. Wapiga Kura in the 2013 Kenyan Election
  • Introduction
  • 2013 Election background: Competitive uncertainty and the "Certitude of Surveys"
  • Crunching " or "massaging" " the numbers?: The Pollsters vs. the IEBC
  • The post-election poll debate: Proof or posture?
  • Conclusion: Pollsters- past, pollsters- future?
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Political Integration of Minority Communities: The Ogiek of Eastern Mau Forest in the 2013 Elections
  • Introduction
  • The Ogiek: Apolitically marginalised indigenous community
  • A sense of belonging? Following the lead of the wider Kalenjin community
  • Political participation in the 2013 general elections
  • Beyond ethnic arithmetic: Alternative explanations for electoral choices
  • Alternative patterns of explanation
  • Conclusion
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Bishop Margaret Wanjiru and the 2013 Kenyan Elections: Between Politics of the Spirit and Expanding Entrepreneurship
  • Introduction
  • Pentecostalism and politics: identifying two strands
  • Bishop Wanjiru and the 2013 elections
  • Strand A: "When the righteous are in authority" " but who are the righteous?
  • Strand B: "BMW": Wanjiru as an entrepreneur
  • Conclusion
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Role of Election Observers: Diplomatic Bias and the Findings of The Kenyan 2013 Election
  • Introduction
  • KHRC: Election monitoring by human rights networks
  • AGLI and FCPT: Grassroots election observers
  • ELOG, civil society observers: Election watchman or watchman of peace?
  • ELOG and other reports: The question of rejected votes.

Similar Items