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