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EXPERT FIXERS: Bureaucratic Informality, Brokerage and the Politics of Land in Mumbai
Based on ethnographic fieldwork within the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), this article illustrates the ‘field of fixing’, a brokerage structure that operates alongside Mumbai's urban bureaucracy. Scholars of Southern urbanism have extensively written about the role of informalized state action in...
‘MAN MUST CHOP!’: Agency of Potholes, Informal Road Menders and Socioeconomic Survival on a Sub-Urban Road in Nigeria
Owing to Nigeria's poor road maintenance culture, informal road menders (IRMs) have emerged who fill potholes on urban and sub-urban roads in exchange for money from road users. This article interrogates the micropolitics of this phenomenon as a relatively new means of informal livelihood within the context of the...
ATHENS’S PHILANTHROCAPITALIST LANDSCAPE WITHIN THE CRISIS–AUSTERITY CONJUNCTURE
The hegemony of neoliberal and austerity policies, which became further entrenched within the continuum of crises unfolding in the past 30 years, has provided ample opportunities for corporate actors and foundations to gain an increasingly decisive role in aspects of social and political life and governance. In...
JULY ISSUE
A detail of a mural of Santa Fede with a banner in the foreground reading: ‘Evictions, wars, precarity, high cost of living, unemployment, control and repression / We build resistant communities!’ (photo by Martina Locorotondo, April 2022)
A detail of Fulong Resort, where extensive real estate projects sit directly adjacent to the ski slopes. This landscape represents the spatial and economic transformations in Chongli, highlighting the rapid urban development driven by the winter sports industry (photo by Mengke Zhang, December 2021)
Municipal collection of source-separated organic waste in Toronto, Ontario. Collected organics are converted to Renewable Natural Gas (RNG) and injected into the local natural gas system (photo by Victoria DeBoer, October 2025, used with permission).
