Spatial practices : : territory, border and infrastructure in Africa / / edited by Ulf Engel, Marc Boeckler, Detlev Müller-Mahn.

The edited collection Spatial Practices: Territory, Border and Infrastructure in Africa presents research findings from the German Research Council’s Priority Programme 1448 “Adaptation and Change in Africa” (2011-2018). At the heart of the volume are important new spatial practices that have emerge...

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Place / Publishing House:Boston : : Brill,, 2018.
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
Series:Africa-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies 20.
Physical Description:1 online resource (247 pages).
Notes:Includes index.
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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Abbreviations
  • List of Figures
  • Contributors
  • Regimes of Territorialization: Territory, Border and Infrastructure in Africa / Marc Boeckler , Ulf Engel and Detlef Müller-Mahn
  • Territories and Sovereignties
  • Struggling for Sovereignty: Political Authority and the Governance of Climate Change in Ethiopia / Detlef Müller-Mahn , Florian Weisser and Julia Willers
  • Adaptation to Climate Change and New Spaces of Facilitated Control in Rwanda / Claudia Gebauer and Martin Doevenspeck
  • Ethiopian Federalism Revisited: Reterritorialization, Nationality, and the (De)legitimization of Ordering Practices / Felix Müller
  • Territorialisation in Post-Conflict Contexts: Claims to Space and Conflict Management / Franzisca Zanker and Andreas Mehler
  • Borders and Mobilities
  • Territorial Power without Sovereignty: Hunters and the State on Côte d’Ivoire’s Northern Margins / Katharina Heitz Tokpa
  • At a Crossing Point: Negotiating Access to Spaces at the South African-Zimbabwean Border / Anna Hüncke
  • Shifting Territorialities of an African Space in China / Karsten Giese and Kelly Si Miao Liang
  • Infrastructure and Order(s)
  • Reordering Ghana’s Roadside Spaces: Hawking in Times of Infrastructural Renewal / Michael Stasik and Gabriel Klaeger
  • On-demand Connections, Formalization and Multiplications: Dis/ordering Water Supply in Kimara Mwisho, Dar es Salaam / Sophie Schramm
  • Territorialisation, Urban Planning and Spatial Dis/order in Dar es Salaam / Shahadat Hossain , Wolfgang Scholz and Sabine Baumgart
  • “Western” and “Chinese” Oil Zones: Petro-Infrastructures and the Emergence of New Trans-territorial Spaces of Order in Niger and Chad / Jannik Schritt and Andrea Behrends.