Les élections mettent en jeu plusieurs types de représentations publiques de l'ordre, que ce soit durant les campagnes ou au fil des processus bureaucratiques entourant la tenue des scrutins. Cet article s'intéresse à un élément clé de l'élection, à savoir la culture matérielle du bureau de vote et les processus qui lui sont associés. Il en dissèque les pratiques, ...

At the coast, the run-up to Kenya's 2013 elections was dominated by fears of violence and the calls for a boycott by the secessionist Mombasa Republican Council. However, the elections passed off largely peacefully, and coastal turnout was significantly higher than in any previous election. This article argues that the secessionist campaign was internally incoheren...

An essay is presented which explores the history of political violence and elections in Kenya. Emphasis is given to topics such as the legitimacy of violence in political stability, rivalry between the Kenya African National Union party and the Kenya African Democratic Union party, and the conceptualization of peace and social order in the electoral process.

Following the elections of 2007, there was a significant increase in public expressions of secessionist feeling on the Kenya coast. During 2010 and 2011, one manifestation of this was the emergence of the Mombasa Republic Council (MRC), which demands independence for the coastal region. The language of secessionism is historical, and revisits the vivid political de...

Southern Sudanese politicians of the 1950s and 1960s have been criticized for a rivalrous, divisive politics, which left the south disunited and vulnerable. While acknowledging that these men were a tiny, squabbling group, remote from those they sought to represent, this article suggests that they faced an impossible task. The demand to represent 'the south' did no...