Nici Nelson is an Africanist, social anthropologist and a Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Anthropology at Goldsmiths, University of London.[1] She obtained a PhD on Kikuyu women in Nairobi, Kenya, from the University of London in 1978 and has published on various fields such as urban anthropology, gender and sexuality, and marriage and households in East Africa. Nelson was President of the African Studies Association of the United Kingdom (ASAUK) in the years 2002-2004 and was one of the recipients of the ASAUK Outstanding African Studies Award in 2015-2016.[2]
Publications
editNici Nelson published many scholarly articles and books including:[1][3][4]
- Dependence and Independence: Female Household Heads in Mathare Valley, A Squatter Community in Nairobi, Kenya. Dissertation School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 1978.[5]
- Why has development neglected rural women? : a review of the South Asian literature, Oxford ; New York : Pergamon Press, 1979.
- African women in the development process, Nici Nelson, ed., London, England ; Totowa, N.J. : F. Cass, 1981.[6]
- A Discourse of Anger in a Situation of Gender-Power Asymmetry: The Negotiation of Safer Sexual Practices Between Young Women and Men in Nairobi. In: Stephanie Newell, ed., Images of African Women: The Gender Problematic. University of Stirling: Center for Commonwealth Studies, 1995. ISBN 978-1857690323.
- with Susan Wright, Power and participatory development : theory and practice, London : ITDG Pub., 1995. ISBN 978-1853392412.[7]
- Representations of Men and Women, City and Town in Kenyan Novels of the 1970s and 1980s'. African Languages and Cultures, 9(2), pp. 145-165, 1996. ISSN 0954-416X.[8]
- with Sue Jones, Urban poverty in Africa : from understanding to alleviation, London : Intermediate Technology Publications, 1999.
- Genderizing Nairobi's Urban Space. In: F. Grignon and H. Maupeu, eds., L'Afrique Orientale, Annuaire 2000. Paris: L'Harmattan, pp. 269-323, 2000.
- with Sue Jones, Practitioners and poverty alleviation : influencing urban policy from the ground up, London : ITDG, 2005.
References
edit- ^ a b "Dr Nici Nelson MA PhD". gold.ac.uk. Goldsmith's University of London. Retrieved 18 August 2022.
Nici has published on urban anthropology, gender and development and approaches to development.
- ^ "Outstanding African Studies Award". www.asauk.net/awards-prizes. African Studies Association of the United Kingdom. Retrieved 18 August 2022.
- ^ "Nelson, Nici". Worldcat.org. OCLC. Retrieved 5 October 2024.
- ^ Nelson, Nici. "Nici Nelson's scientific contributions". researchgate.net. ResearchGate. Retrieved 18 August 2022.
- ^ Nelson, Nici (1978). "Dependence and Independence: Female Household Heads in Mathare Valley, A Squatter Community in Nairobi, Kenya" (PDF). eprints.soas.ac.uk. School of Oriental and African Studies. Retrieved 18 August 2022.
- ^ Berhane-Selassie, Tsehai (1983). "Reviewed Work: African Women in the Development Process by Nici Nelson. Journal of Southern African Studies Vol. 10, No. 1, Special Issue on Women in Southern Africa (Oct., 1983), pp. 140-141". jstor.org. Jstor. Originally Taylor & Francis, Ltd. Retrieved 25 August 2022.
- ^ Hitjens, Helen (July 1996). "Reviewed Work: Power and participatory development : theory and practice. Community Development Journal Vol. 31, No. 3 (July 1996), pp. 271-272". jstor.org. Jstor, originally Oxford University Press. Retrieved 25 August 2022.
- ^ Nelson, Nici (1996). "Representations of Men and Women, City and Town in Kenyan Novels of the 1970s and 1980s. African Languages and Cultures Vol. 9, No. 2, Gender and Popular Culture (1996), pp. 145-168 (24 pages)". jstor.org. Jstor. Originally Taylor & Francis, Ltd. Retrieved 25 August 2022.