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THE COSMOPOLITICS OF CATS AND WILDLIFE ON CAPE TOWN’S URBAN EDGE
Free-ranging cats are widely tolerated in cities, and animal welfare organizations increasingly allow for ‘trap, neuter and release’ (TNR) of unowned cats. We show, using the example of a university campus adjacent to a national park in a large metropole, that this has implications for cosmopolitics over...
NEGOTIATING URBAN FORMALITIES: The Social Regulation of Construction in Douala, Cameroon
This article examines how in Douala, Cameroon, the state regulates urban development despite the city's low level of planning. The analysis is based on an ethnographic study of municipal bureaucracies to understand how a form of social regulation of construction emerges. Social regulation is explored through...
PLANNING A EUROPEAN RACIAL CITY: Dealing (with) Dread in Twenty-first-century Berlin
In this article I examine a participatory planning initiative in contemporary Berlin to propose a theoretical reflection on the entanglements between race and urban futures in the German capital. The promoters of the planning initiative aimed to solve the problem of drug dealing in an inner-city park. Motivated by no...
JULY ISSUE
Young boys purchase produce at a small neighbourhood kiosk that is not connected to the grid despite an electric pole being only a few feet away, in Nakulabye informal settlement, Kampala, Uganda (photo by Penlope Yaguma, October 2023)
A detail of ‘communitarian pots in times of crisis’ as part of project No. 0160, ‘Community Practices, Local Policies and Governance for the Management of the Covid-19 Crisis in Intermediate Cities’ (image by Paz Ahumada, 2021)
A detail showing empty apartments in Gränby 2012 (photo by resident ‘Ciwan’, June 2012)
