In this article, I draw from fieldwork on the micropractices of hawkers' illicit dealings with low‐
level state functionaries in Mumbai, India, to explore how claims to city space are negotiated …

The eviction of residents to make way for a “new urban zone” in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam,
is legitimized by notions of building a beautiful, breathable, and orderly city. Although angry …

Since its inception in 2001 and subsequent integration into the tri-national Great Limpopo
Transfrontier Park (GLTP), Mozambique's Limpopo National Park (LNP) has been …

This article explores the everyday politics through which citizenship is negotiated by diverse
residents, analysing the case of Bansighat, an informal settlement in Kathmandu, Nepal. It …

Analysis of post-disaster reconstruction of urban areas has largely been understood as a
function of technocratic and institutionalist paradigms, while critical perspectives have been …

This article analyzes how environmentalism reinscribed violent forms of state sovereignty in
the disputed region of Kashmir in the aftermath of a decade-long uprising against Indian …

Drawing on fieldwork among environmental activists and housing advocates in one of South
Asia's fastest-growing cities—and the capital of one of the world's most politically volatile …

For decades Cairo's solid waste management, based on local garbage collectors (zabal; pl.
zabaleen) was among the most uniquely ecological in the world. In recent decades, the …

In this article, I argue that the practice of forced disappearance of persons on the part of
paramilitary groups has become linked to specific processes of globalization. Global flows …

Four decades of reorganization of waste management in Kathmandu, Nepal funded by
foreign aid failed to provide adequate services and led to the return of riverbank waste …