This paper considers the foundations of contemporary African urban economies and how
these intersect with the evolution of urban politics, carving a route through a wide range of …

Working the System offers key insights into the politics of the everyday in twenty-first-century
dominant party and neo-authoritarian regimes in Africa and elsewhere. Detailing the many …

Peri-urban land governance in Tanzania and other developing countries is shaped by
divergent or complimentary roles of actors emanating from their authority, power and interest …

Our existence has become so entangled with concrete that it would be difficult to imagine life
without it, though we probably should. Anthropologists recognize the part that concrete plays …

Through the lens of infrastructure governance, this article explores the configurations and
operations of the urban state in sub-Saharan Africa. We deploy and extend the concept of …

Despite the rise of global technocratic ideals of city-making, cities around the world are not
merging into indistinguishable duplicates of one another. In fact, as the world urbanizes …

As the world's most used material, after water, cement is particularly good to think with. And
as I show below, it may also be good to 'become with', especially across the Global South …

Suburban space provides a useful window onto contemporary class practices in Africa,
where it is difficult to identify social classes on the basis of income or occupation. In this …

In African Motors, Joshua Grace examines how Tanzanian drivers, mechanics, and
passengers reconstituted the automobile into a uniquely African form between the late …

Rancière's theorisation of police, politics, and aesthetics offers an illustrative framework to
understand urban (re) developments. While extant works have examined separately the art …