Being Home: Living Spaces and Self-Images of the Kenyan Middle Class (A05)

Building on the results of the first funding period, the focus will lie on the constitution of home as a key process of status work associated with middle-class oriented lifestyles. Taking into account the high spatial mobility of Kenyan middle-class people, their forms of subjectivation will be reconstructed both in Nairobi (Kenya) and in the diaspora of Berlin (Germany) – through an analysis of the everyday spatial relations made relevant in home-making practices. Examining the self-images of members of the Kenyan middle-class on the basis of their living spaces will generate important insights into refiguration processes at the level of subjective spatial knowledge.

DFG Programme Collaborative Research Centres

Subproject of SFB 1265:  Re-Figuration of Spaces

Applicant Institution Technische Universität Berlin

Project Heads Dr. Jochen Kibel; Professor Dr. Gunter Weidenhaus, until 12/2021