Infrastructuring aid: Materializing humanitarianism in northern Kenya

Environment and Planning D: Society and Space

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 732-748

  Donovan, Kevin P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Biometric identification; Biopolitics; Humanitarianism; Infrastructure; Kenya; Materiality

Indexed keywords

BIOMETRY; HUMANITARIAN AID; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; INFRASTRUCTURE PLANNING; LOW INCOME POPULATION; SOCIAL POLICY;

KENYA;

EID: 84951291588     PISSN: 02637758     EISSN: 14723433     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0263775815598107     Document Type: Article

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