Future-Making on Hold: Pandemic Audio Diaries from Kenya

This blog post features voices from our research partners in the Kenyan Rift Valley and gives some insights into how corona prevention measures have impacted their lives. It invites readers to think about how to continue cooperation despite travel bans. When the future-making practices we sought to research are drastically put on hold for an indefinite time, we must not only rethink the conditions under which our fieldwork tends to take place but also continue to research how in such an amplified scenario, individual strategies and actions deal with a halted economy.

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By Anna Lisa Ramella and Martin Zillinger.

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