CONTRIBUTOR:

Peter Lockwood

AFFILIATION:

TITLE:

PhD Candidate

DEPARTMENT:

Social Anthropology

INSTITUTION:

University of Cambridge

BIOGRAPHY:

Peter Lockwood is a PhD candidate in the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge. He conducted doctoral fieldwork in Kenya between January 2017 and July 2018 and again in August 2019 on the peri-urban outskirts of Nairobi. He is currently writing a thesis provisionally titled “Scarcity and the Social Future: A Moral Economy of Continuity and Consumption in Central Kenya.” His research encompasses a range of themes: household and family life, land disputes and inheritance, politics and democracy, and the economic lives of young men. His work has appeared in the Journal of Eastern African Studies, Journal of Modern African Studies and Social Analysis.