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Urban Informality and the State: Geographical Translations and Conceptual Alliances
Understandings of informality commonly derive from research undertaken in states perceived as lacking the capacity to regulate the practices of their populations. This Interventions forum aims to expand the geographical parameters of empirical research on urban informality. A more global approach, we argue, also...
State Theory from the Street Altar: The Muscles, the Saint and the Amparo
This article identifies traces of the state in three urban neighborhoods of Mexico City. Instead of asking what is the state, where is it located or what does it do, the question posed here is: what are the effects of state practices at the street level? By ethnographically and visually describing how protection is...
Weird Exoskeletons: Propositional Politics and the Making of Home in Underground Bucharest
The article explores the politics of life underground in Bucharest, Romania. It focuses on a tunnel passing under Bucharest's central train station, where a community of drug users and so‐called ‘homeless’ have made a long‐standing home, using a space that many others considered uninhabitable. Relying on...
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Bucharest University intersection (photo © Michele Lancione, 2016)
The Virgin of Guadalupe, one of the saints inhabiting Tepito, Mexico City (photo © Rodrigo Olvera, 2017)
Bruce Lee (as the community leader liked to be called) entering the tunnel at Gara de Nord, Bucharest (detail from photo © Michele Lancione, 2014)