This article deploys the conceptual frame of hustle to examine the everyday dealings
associated with uncertainty and accepted informalities that pervade realms of everyday life …

Achille Mbembe is one of the most brilliant theorists of postcolonial studies writing today. In
On the Postcolony he profoundly renews our understanding of power and subjectivity in …

This article contributes to the debate on the formalization of artisanal and small-scale mining
(ASM)–low-tech, labour-intensive mineral extraction and processing–in developing …

In this article I will examine the banality of power in the'postcolony'. By banality of power I am
not simply referring to the way bureaucratic formalities or arbitrary rules, implicit or explicit …

How are people in one of Africa's largest cities, Dar es Salaam, capable of surviving day to
day when the downward decline of Tanzania's economy has become so pronounced that …

Introduction 1.-The Enigma of Karachi's' Ordered Disorder 9.-Scope, Sources and Structure
of the Book 14.-1. A Contested City 17.-A City Up for Grabs 21.-An Arena for National …

In the aftermath of an armed conflict in Africa, the international community both produces
and demands from local partners a variety of blueprints for reconstructing state and society …

In this article, I draw from fieldwork on the micropractices of hawkers' illicit dealings with low‐
level state functionaries in Mumbai, India, to explore how claims to city space are negotiated …

Africa's Informal Workers is a vigorous examination of the informalization and casualization
of work, which is changing livelihoods in Africa and beyond. Gathering cases from nine …

The condition of precariousness not only provides insights into a segment of the world of
work or of a particular subject group, but is also a standpoint for an overview of the condition …