Book
Infrastructural Attachments: Austerity, Sovereignty, and Expertise in Kenya (Duke 2024)
Articles
“Enacting Radio: Expertise and the Politics of Scale in Colonial Kenya,” [forthcoming] Technology and Culture
“ ‘Capitalism as World Ecology’ the Uganda Railway and the Structure of the Conjuncture in 19th c. eastern Africa,” [forthcoming] Comparative Studies in Society and History
“Dispossession, World Ecology, and Care: A View from Kenya,” Revaluing Care, 2025.
“Privacy, Privation, and Person: Data, Debt, and the Infrastructured Self” (co-authored with Kevin P. Donovan) in Richard Rottenburg, ed. Translating Technologies in Africa, Johannesburg: WiTS University Press. Brill: 2023.
“Algorithmic Intimacy: The Data Economy of Predatory Inclusion in Kenya,” (co-authored with Kevin P. Donovan) Special Issue on “Curious Utopias: Large and Small Blueprints for Human Society,” Social Anthropology 30 (2) 2022.
“The Right to Sovereign Seizure?: Taxation and the Imperial British East Africa Company” in Gurminder Bhambra and Julia McClure, eds. Imperial Inequalities: Taxation and Welfare Across European Empires. Manchester UP: 2022.
“Knowledge/Seizure: Data, Debt & Rent in Kenya,” (co-authored with Kevin P. Donovan) Antipode 54 (4): 2022.
“Intimacy and Estrangement: Safaricom, Divisibility, and the Making of the Corporate Nation-State” Comparative Studies in South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East 41 (3): 2021.
“Intellectual and Cultural Work in Times of Austerity,” Introduction to a special issue on austerity. Co-authored: Emma Park, Derek R. Peterson, Anne Pitcher, Keith Breckenridge. Africa 91 (4) 2021.
“ ‘Human ATMs’: M-PESA and the Expropriation of Affective Work in Safaricom’s Kenya,” Africa 90 (5) 2020.
“Perpetual Debt in the Silicon Savannah,” Boston Review, (2019) (co-authored with Kevin P. Donovan)
“Between the Nation and the State” (co-authored with Kevin P. Donovan) LIMN. (2016) Issue 7
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