{"product_id":"kakuma-refugee-camp-bram-j-jansen-9781786991881","title":"Kakuma Refugee Camp: Humanitarian Urbanism in Kenya's Accidental City","description":"\u003cp\u003eKenya's Kakuma refugee camp is one of the world's largest, home to over 100,000 people drawn from across east and central Africa. Though notionally still a 'temporary' camp, it has become a permanent urban space in all but name with businesses, schools, a hospital and its own court system. Such places, Bram J. Jansen argues, should be recognised as 'accidental cities', a unique form of urbanization that has so far been overlooked by scholars.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBased on extensive ethnographic fieldwork, Jansen's book explores the dynamics of everyday life in such accidental cities. The result is a holistic socio-economic picture, moving beyond the conventional view of such spaces as transitory and desolate to demonstrate how their inhabitants can develop a permanent society and a distinctive identity. Crucially, the book offers important insights into one of the greatest challenges facing humanitarian and international development workers: how we might develop more effective strategies for managing refugee camps in the global South and beyond.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn original take on African urbanism, \u003cem\u003eKakuma Refugee Camp\u003c\/em\u003e will appeal to practitioners and academics across the social sciences interested in social and economic issues increasingly at the heart of contemporary development.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Bram J. Jansen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1786991888\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781786991881\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Publishing PLC\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/21\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 248\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.70d","brand":"Bram J. Jansen","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43994334232831,"sku":"9781786991881","price":32.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_63b09d84-971b-4f87-8f6f-6d7341bd45b8.jpg?v=1683329526","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/kakuma-refugee-camp-bram-j-jansen-9781786991881","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}