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Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Preface v
3. Contents xiii
4. Abbreviations xv
5. Figures and Tables xvii
6. Introduction: Shaping Claims to Land in Peri-Urban Bukavu
7. 1 Introducing the study of claim-making practices in peri-urban Bukavu 1
8. 2 Bukavu’s Evolution: from La Ville Verte to La Ville Morte 21
9. 3 Operationalizing Hybridity through Governmentality 64
10. PART I Regimes of Truth
11. 4 Drawing (on) State Reasoning 93
12. 5 Constituting Claims to Authority on the Edge of Reason 118
13. 6 Navigating Uncertainty in the Maintenance of Claims to Authority 161
14. 7 Autochthony: Violent and Spatial Consequences of a Flexible Marker 192
15. PART II Power and Technologies
16. 8 Re-gendering Sexed Differentiations in Women’s Practices of Claiming Land 213
17. 9 The Politics of Life in La Ville Morte: Anarchic Buildings 252
18. 10 Contingent Technologies of Resistance at Sanctioned Construction Sites 281
19. 11 Contested Urban Space: Competing Claims to Sovereignty 313
20. PART III Subjectivation and Space
21. 12 Heterotopic Mapping of Mundane Threats to Land Claims in Bagira 341
22. 13 The Institution as an Imaginary: An Assessment of Urban Associations 384
23. Conclusion: Hybridization in the Maintenance of Tenure Uncertainty 411
24. Critique: Towards a Criticism of the Analytical and Methodological Rituals 432
25. Bibliography 464
26. Index 491