Chapter 7. Kinetocracy: The Government of Mobility at the Desert’s Edge

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Chapter 1. Mobility Makes States 1
4. PART I. Channeling Human Mobility
5. Chapter 2. Portuguese Empire Building and Human Mobility in São Tomé and Angola, 1400s–1700s 37
6. Chapter 3. ‘‘Captive to Civilization’’: Law, Labor Mobility, and Violence in Colonial Mozambique 59
7. Chapter 4. Victims, Saviors, and Suspects: Channeling Mobility in Post-Genocide Rwanda 79
8. Chapter 5. Channeling Mobility Across a Segregated Johannesburg 104
9. Chapter 6. Policy Spectacles: Promoting Migration- Development Scenarios in Ghana 125
10. PART II. Moving Concentrations of Power
11. Chapter 7. Kinetocracy: The Government of Mobility at the Desert’s Edge 149
12. Chapter 8. Decolonization and (Dis)Possession in Lusophone Africa 169
13. Chapter 9. Moving from War to Peace in the Zambia-Angola Borderlands 194
14. Chapter 10. Recognition, Solidarity, and the Power of Mobility in Africa’s Urban Estuaries 218
15. Notes 237
16. Contributors 285
17. Index 289
18. Acknowledgments 295