Peter Lockwood

Peter Lockwood is a Post-doctoral researcher at IHEID, Geneva on Project SALMEA (Self-Accomplishment and Local Moralities in Eastern Africa) and an Affiliated Lecturer University of Cambridge’s Department of Social Anthropology. He conducted 20 months of long-term participant research living in peri-urban Kiambu County, and has published papers on Kenyan politics and youth unemployment. He has a growing interest in Kenyans’ aspirations for social mobility, and the role of finance in those economic journeys.

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Wolf in Shepherd’s Garb: Bishop Gakuyo and Stolen Middle Class Dreams

Unless more interventionist regulation is put in place, Kenya’s elites will continue to use Saccos as vehicles for predatory accumulation and Kenyans will continue to see...

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Peter Lockwood

Wolf in Shepherd’s Garb: Bishop Gakuyo and Stolen Middle Class Dreams

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Are GMOs the Answer to Kenya’s Food Insecurity?

Back to the Future: The Return of Recession, Debt and Structural Adjustment

Biting off More Than We Can Chew: US, GMOs and the New Scramble for Africa

America’s Failure in Africa

The Mwea Irrigation Ecosystem as a Small-Scale Agriculture Model

The Perfect Tax: Land Value Taxation and the Housing Crisis in Kenya

Mukami Kimathi and the Scramble to Own Mau Mau Memory

Finance Bill 2023: A Prowling Economic Hitjob

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Pattern of Life and Death: Camp Simba and the US War on Terror

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