Angela Okune

PECE Possibilities: Tactics

This write-up by Grant Otsuki (2018) discusses how some of how PECE's functionalities mirror what other research softwares do, like reference managers and note taking softwares. These functionalities are important when...Read more

2019_Nov_7 Angela Okune's University of Nairobi Institute of Development Studies Seminar Presentation

AO: These are the slides for a talk I gave on November 7, 2019 at the University of Nairobi's Institute of Development Studies (IDS) which hosts a regular seminar talk.Read more

AOk. Boss position reserved for those who originate where the money comes from.

This brief jotting of an encounter with a Kenyan employee at Org 2 reveals cynicism about why Kenyans don't end up having the highest "boss" jobs in the country... because they are indebted...Read more

AO. Data Sharing Can Lead to Increased Robustness/Validity

AO: After emailing this data to a non-Kenyan anthropologist I met in Nairobi, I received the following response:

“I went through the transcript and I really find it fascinating

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TRANSCRIPT: 190514_001 RESEARCHING IN/FROM NAIROBI

Transcript from one-on-one interview

Tuesday, May 14 , 2019

10:23 AM – 11:28 AM

Location: Research office of interlocutor (Nairobi, Kenya)

Participant: Kenyan woman who resides in...Read more

Learning from Nairobi

Something Kim said - about Nairobi being an important site to learn from given that many in the US may be forced to go into the more informal economy, etc. - reminded me of a twist of that point...Read more

AO. Audit culture vs grounds for further inquiry

AO: Some may view my uploading of these informed consent forms as simply another push towards an increased "audit culture" within the university (Strathern 1997) and greater politics of...Read more

Org Data Interview Guide_May 2019

AO: This guide was developed loosely borrowing from:

Carlson, Jake. 2010. “The Data Curation Profiles Toolkit Interview Worksheet.” Purdue University Libraries / Distributed Data Curation Center.
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