1st Edition
How a Slum is (Re)Produced An Ethnography of Kibera and Korogocho in Nairobi
Introduction: What Is a Slum?
Part I. Genealogies: How Slums Became Slums
1. Territory and Community: Formation
2. The Name: Assigning Meaning
3. The Slum Brand: Creating Indentity
Part II. Morphologies: Practicing the Slum Structures
4. The Habitat: Ownership and Infrastructure
5. Lasting (In)stability: Ways of Getting By
6. (Em)Power and (Dis)Empowerment: How Aid Turns into Help
7. (In)Security: Mob justice and Community
Conclusion: Toward a Holistic Anthropology of the Slum
Biography
Magdalena Chułek is an Assistant Professor at the Centre of Migration Research, University of Warsaw. She is a social anthropologist whose research focuses on urban marginality, informal settlements, and everyday governance in the Global South, based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork in Africa and South Asia.
