Gramsci and the African<i>Città Futura</i>: Urban Subaltern Politics From the Margins of Nouakchott, Mauritania

Choplin, Armelle; Ciavolella, Riccardo

doi:10.1111/anti.12268

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“…Together, these examinations dialogue with the so-called 'Southern turn' in urban studies (Lawhon and Truelove 2020). These analyses speak to a vast literature which serves to animate a multitude of ongoing practices and processes related to urban evictions, slum removals, dispossessions, displacement, and gentrification on the one hand, and the related lenses of collective action, resistance and slum habitus on the other (Bayat 2000;Benjamin 2008;Banerjee-Guha 2010;Goldman 2011;Ghertner 2011;Watson 2013;Gillespie 2015;Choplin and Ciavolella 2016;Wilhelm-Solomon 2016;Brickell, Fernandez Arrigoitia, and Vasudevan 2017;Leitner and Sheppard 2017).…”

Section: Temporary Horizons At Awoshie Junctionmentioning

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Under the wire

Dawson

2021

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This paper discusses the occupation of an electricity transmission line right-of-way (ROW) at a busy interchange to the western edge of Accra, Ghana. In planning documents, ROWs are depicted as open spaces and obtaining permits to develop the land is prohibited. However, across the city, people continue to live and work under the wire, describing their occupancy as one of ongoing temporariness. Drawing from fourteen months of ethnographic research in Accra, I unpack the production of this urban temporality and argue that this ongoing temporariness is not linear, but should rather be understood as a condition punctured by events which both threaten and re-establish temporary occupation. I contend that it is only by attending closely to a splintered temporality, that we may grapple with the ways in which ongoing temporariness takes hold in cities marked by uneven access to land, income and capital.Under the wire A s we sat in the shadows of the electricity transmission wires that draped across Awoshie Junction-a busy interchange to the western edge of Accra-Bright told me that he and the others shouldn't really be working here. As a taxi stopped on the side of the road, he paused and attended

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Section: Temporary Horizons At Awoshie Junctionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Dawson

2021

City

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“…The recent global rise of ethno‐racial nationalism and violence has recalibrated these discourses through notions of belonging to unevenly code and distribute care and dispossession (Wilhelm‐Solomon, ) and thereby bolster state legitimacy under potentially volatile conditions. While I focus on the Indian conjuncture below, similar urban dynamics exist in Africa (Choplin and Ciavolella, ), Latin America (Koster and Nuijten, ), and Asia (Shin and Kim, ). Conjunctural analysis reveals how and when these governing spaces and meanings gain salience to consolidate state hegemony.…”

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The Redevelopmental State: Governing Surplus Life and Land in the ‘Urban Age’

Doshi¹

2018

Development and Change

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This article theorizes changing configurations of development governance emerging as states attempt to reconcile two contradictory pressures of global urbanization: dispossessing capitalist accumulation and demands for inclusive welfare. It introduces the ‘redevelopmental state’ as a dynamic spatio‐political framework for understanding how hegemonic rule is tenuously forged amid potentially volatile urban land struggles. Whereas Northern urban redevelopment theories are less attentive to post‐colonial urbanization processes and most developmental state scholarship has not focused on cities, the redevelopmental state offers an alternative conceptualization. It centres on how emerging regimes of territorial rule, development and political participation contour access to land and social benefits in Southern cities. Forged at key conjunctures of social pressure, these redevelopmental state spaces work through and beyond formal policies and institutions, and articulate with nationalist cultural politics of belonging and aspiration that foster consent for redevelopment while also legitimating exclusions, violence and dispossession. A case study of Mumbai illustrates redevelopmental state spaces that suture ethno‐religious nationalism, urbanized accumulation and populist welfare to unevenly distribute life capacities, garnering both cooperation and contestation. The article concludes by suggesting ways this spatially attuned framing can provide insights into the recent rise of ethno‐nationalism and authoritarian populism around the world.

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“…The tension arises partly from the frictions of highly unequal societies and partly from the specific historical conditions of state formation (Hesketh, 2019), which have frequently included violent coercion in colonial and postcolonial societies (Ceceña, 2008; Braga and Purdy, 2019). Therefore, rather than asking whether or not hegemony is realized through the successful universalization and active acceptance of political strategies and interests, we build on work that focuses on the strategies, sets of ideas or policies relevant for achieving universalized acceptance across various scales on a daily basis (Andreucci and Radhuber, 2017; Choplin and Ciavolella, 2017; Salem, 2018). Analysing the different understandings underlying daily practices can unpack, for example, how bureaucrats break rules that guide them in sanctioning certain practices, or how local‐level policies, resulting from demands of subaltern groups, contradict or circumvent hegemonic understandings of national‐level policy.…”

Section: Hegemonymentioning

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TRANSFORMED SECURITY PRACTICES: Informalization in the Production of Hegemony and Place

Guarneros‐Meza¹,

Jenss²

2022

Int J Urban Regional Res

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The article builds an analytical framework to study the relation between security and informality and the extent to which it contributes to producing hegemony in local politics. By emphasizing a processual understanding of hegemony, the article develops a twofold argument: (1) structurally powerful actors with well-established links to state institutions carry out informal practices just as well as those often perceived to be at the 'margins' of the state; and (2) subaltern groups are capable of transforming their society while also inadvertently reproducing hegemonic security practices. The analytical framework is unpacked through two Mexican cases: the Coordinadora Regional de Autoridades Comunitarias -Policia Comunitaria (CRAC-PC) in Guerrero State and neighbourhood vigilantism in Oaxaca City. The CRAC-PC case shows that procedures in which hegemony is challenged involve actors resorting to state institutions (law, judiciary) coupled by paralegal institutions that enhance placemaking of rural indigenous communities. The Oaxacan case shows how communities challenge state actors through a series of practices that bring people together into networks that put into question the hegemonic organization of in/security at city level. The analytical framework helps to break the dichotomization of formality and informality and to clarify how informality is practised in struggles both for and against hegemony.

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Gramsci and the AfricanCittà Futura: Urban Subaltern Politics From the Margins of Nouakchott, Mauritania

Cited by 13 publications

References 28 publications

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The Redevelopmental State: Governing Surplus Life and Land in the ‘Urban Age’

TRANSFORMED SECURITY PRACTICES: Informalization in the Production of Hegemony and Place

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