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1. ‘The Disease of the Rich’: Containment Measures and Cashing in on Covid-19 in Kenya from March 2020 to March 2021

Author

Claire Médard

Subjects
rent extraction, prevention, law enforcement, moral order, COVID-19, Kenya
Abstract

This article analyses the political construction in Kenya of the confusion between health prevention and law enforcement during the COVID-19 pandemic. Kenya’s security approach to the management of the COVID-19 situation went along with extortion mechanisms—the numerous exceptions to containment indeed made it possible to extract rent. The fear of the virus initially legitimised coercive measures which have now declined; but deviant practice linked to territorial control are now challenging the moral order.

Published
2022

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