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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...
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...
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)
