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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...
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The Indonesian North Kendeng farmers’ tradition of honoring nature (photo by Isnu Pratama May 2023)
Signage outside the corporate building owned by the Kochi Metro Rail Limited that houses the IC4 and CSML, part of the Smart Cities Mission (photo by Devika Prakash, January 2022)
A waterpoint in Kibera, Nairobi, an informalized settlement with a history of water struggles (photo by Moritz Kasper, October 2021).
