Obama and Kenya

Carotenuto, Matthew; Luongo, Katherine

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“…According to rumours that circulated widely during GD's first years in Siaya, Obama, whose father hails from a small village in Siaya County (cf. Carotenuto & Luongo 2016), had teamed up with Raila Odinga, an almost mythical Luo politician, in order to channel US funds ‘directly’ to western Kenya: that is, without passing through the central Kenyan political elite who had – in 2007 as well as 2013 – ‘stolen’ the elections from Raila. Consequently, some recipients did not agree with interpretations of the cash transfers as market exchanges with shadowy actors or invitations into long‐term relationships of patronage.…”

Section: Redirecting the Redistributive Flow Of Direct Cashmentioning

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The gift of free money: on the indeterminacy of unconditional cash transfers in western Kenya

Schmidt

2022

Royal Anthropological Inst

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In the area surrounding the western Kenyan market town of Kaleko, almost half of the households targeted by the NGO GiveDirectly refused to participate in an unconditional cash transfer programme. Based on interviews and repeated visits to Kaleko over the last ten years, the article illuminates the reasons for the high refusal rate. Instead of understanding it as a technical problem to be fixed, the article situates it in local understandings of the economy as relational. Observing that different actors understood the transfer differently (e.g. as embedded in market exchanges with occult actors, asymmetrical gift relations, or political redistribution schemes), the article concludes that it was difficult for GiveDirectly to control how its cash transfer programme was interpreted locally because it did not accept the paradoxical nature of ‘the gift of free money’. If actors oppose money conceptually to the free gift, interpretations of unconditional cash are bound to be multiple and the transfer will remain indeterminable.

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Section: Redirecting the Redistributive Flow Of Direct Cashmentioning

confidence: 99%

The gift of free money: on the indeterminacy of unconditional cash transfers in western Kenya

Schmidt

2022

Royal Anthropological Inst

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The dimensions of prosociality: a cross-cultural lexical analysis

Lomas

2018

Curr Psychol

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The West is usually portrayed relatively individualistic. It is further argued that this tendency has influenced academia, leading to an underappreciation of the importance of prosociality. In the interest of exploring this topic, an enquiry was conducted into conceptualisations of prosociality across the world's cultures. The enquiry focused on so-called untranslatable words, i.e., which lack an exact translation into another language (in this case, English). Through a quasi-systematic search of academic and grey literature, together with additional data collection, over 200 relevant terms were located. An adapted form of grounded theory identified five dimensions: socialising/congregating; morals/ethics; compassion/kindness; interaction/communication; and communality. The analysis sheds light on the dynamics of prosociality, as understood by cultures across the globe. Moreover, the roster of terms featured have the potential to enrich the nomological network in psychology, allowing for a richer conceptualisation of the social dimensions of human functioning.

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The Potentials and Pitfalls of the “Virtual Turn”

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Lawrance²

2022

Afr. Stud. Rev.

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Obama and Kenya

Cited by 6 publications

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The gift of free money: on the indeterminacy of unconditional cash transfers in western Kenya

The gift of free money: on the indeterminacy of unconditional cash transfers in western Kenya

The dimensions of prosociality: a cross-cultural lexical analysis

The Potentials and Pitfalls of the “Virtual Turn”

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