Seminars

Homophily refers to the observation in networks that more connections are formed between nodes who share a similar background characteristic.

'[D]ecolonization, the postapartheid, is first and foremost, a resumption of interrupted history.

As part of the Emergency measures in the 1950s, the British colonial government in Kenya introduced regulations that imposed passbooks on the Kikuyu, Embu, and Meru (KEM), who were seen as the wellspring of Mau Mau.

Reading Faces examines the direct impact of past research on the development of AI systems; the way in which the past provides contexts which have predisposed people to accept outputs of AI systems as ‘common sense’; how the role of politics and the changing nature of the sta

How should we understand 1970s Kenya, with its combination of inequality and relative political stability?

In the Global South, sociotechnical systems such as digital national identification are expanding rapidly. States are using these systems to govern populations in the context of security and e-governance, with support from financial donors.

This paper examines the functioning and implications of a little-known legal trust that forms the financial foundation for M-Pesa.

In this Chapter (6), `Trading inequality’ follows copper on its journey from Solwezi to world markets and shows where profits flow.

With Huduma Namba and Maisha Namba, the Kenyan government has aspired to create a “single source of truth.” But the controversies these digital infrastructures have generated have instead revealed multiple, incommensurable kinds of truth and truth claims.

That Trust can be fostered through central banking has been established through the work of scholars such as Roseveare, Carruthers, and Haber, North and Weingast amongst others, who focused on English institutional development and the role of elite politics in this institutional development.

In this article, we are gently cautioning against the dominant argument of 'document scarcity' that features in op-eds and survey-driven narratives (the belief that the non-possessi

Central bank cooperation during global financial crises has been anything but consistent. While some crises are arrested with extensive cooperation, others are left to spiral.

Making a Life: Young Men on Johannesburg’s Urban Margins explores the dynamic everyday life-making strategies of young men in Zandspruit, a sprawling informal settlement on the outskirts of Johannesburg.

While biometric national identification systems have been examined in interesting ways in other postcolonial settings, notably on the African continent and in India, questions over state/citizenship, economy/economisation, and freedom/unfreedom take on a particular valence in Jamaica.

Two sets of arguments dominate the mainstream discourse on privacy in India. One position pushes for equal and robust rights to privacy for the poor.

This paper examines the role of ambiguity attitudes in shaping trust decisions. Traditional trust games often ignore or conflate the role of risk and ambiguity, though trust decisions typically involve the latter.

This book, which is available open access here, draws on Rohingya oral histories and narratives about Myanmar’s genocide and ID schemes to critiqu