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‘I LEARNED TO MAKE A LOT MORE SPACE IN MYSELF FOR OTHER PEOPLE’: Examining the Negotiation of Hegemonic and Alternative Values in the Urban Commons
In this article, we examine the urban commons through the concept of subjectivity. We attend to the ways in which alternative and hegemonic values are negotiated among different commoners and within individual commoners. Which challenges do commoners face as they pursue alternative values within the context of...
EVERYDAY INFRASTRUCTURES OF URBAN LIFE
Infrastructure is commonly perceived through the interpretive monopoly of hegemonic frames of modernity, leading to the frequent oversight of everyday infrastructures. Extensive capital-intensive infrastructures that are fully integrated and have paled into the background of everyday life are commonly dismissed,...
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...
MARCH ISSUE
A pedestrian crossing bridge over Avenida Governador Carlos Lacerda in the Jacarepaguá neighborhood, en route to a Slam Poetry competition (photo by Marcos L. Campos, April2019)
A poster on Broadway stating ‘We are human beings not numbers’, the Focus E15Slogan (photo by Toni Adscheid, July 2022)
A detail from Miltiadou Street, in Athens. The worn-out poster was part of ‘Athens Trigono’ project aiming to change the image of the historical centre of Athens (photo by Panagiota Koutrolikou, October 2024)
