Paul Ocobock is an assistant professor of history at the University of Notre Dame.
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An Uncertain Age
The Politics of Manhood in Kenya
By Paul Ocobock
In twentieth-century Kenya, age and gender were powerful cultural and political forces that animated household and generational relationships. They also shaped East Africans’ contact with and influence on emergent colonial and global ideas about age and masculinity. Kenyan men and boys came of age achieving their manhood through changing rites of passage and access to new outlets such as town life, crime, anticolonial violence, and nationalism.
Cast Out
Vagrancy and Homelessness in Global and Historical Perspective
Edited by A. L. Beier and Paul Ocobock
Throughout history, those arrested for vagrancy have generally been poor men and women, often young, able-bodied, unemployed, and homeless. Most histories of vagrancy have focused on the European and American experiences. Cast Out: Vagrancy and Homelessness in Global and Historical Perspective is the first book to consider the shared global heritage of vagrancy laws, homelessness, and the historical processes they accompanied.In
