Urban Enclaving Futures

The project "Enclaving: Patterns of global futures in three African cities" (UrbanEnclavingFutures) explores and maps the unequal distribution of urban resources in separated spaces across cities. In exploring enclaving more broadly, we recognize that social actors co-produce and engage urban spaces.

Affiliation

Duration

October 2018–September 2022

About the research project

Based on research in and on Accra, Johannesburg and Maputo we analyze enclaving as a globally emerging cultural orientation, which creates new social forms. By comparing enclaving in these cities, the project contributes to finding solutions for two key challenges of African urban development, namely housing and inequality.

Urban Enclaving Futures transcends the mere mapping of general enclaving patterns by applying a comparative methodological approach, in which the project divides between two subprojects (SP1 and SP2), three primary site teams (PSTs) and three metropolitan sites (MS).

The project's approach allows researchers to work in a cross-site fashion and for co-investigators, working together, to compare and juxtapose findings from SP1 (financing) and SP2 (inhabiting) as well as between MS1 (Accra), MS2 (Johannesburg) and MS3 (Maputo).

UrbanEnclavingFutures is divided into two main subprojects: SP1 (Financing) and SP2 (Inhabiting). Within each of these are the researchers respective case studies.

Publications

Ablo, Austin D.

2020. [with G. A. B. Yiran, F. E. Asem and G.Owusu] Urban Sprawl in sub-Saharan Africa: A review of the literature in selected countries Ghana Journal of Geography Vol.12 No.1

2019. [with E. O. Denchie and R. Overå] Land governance and access dynamics in Sekondi-Takoradi, Ghana African Geographical Review. DOI:10.1080/19376812.2020.1831560

2018. Scale, local content and the challenges of Ghanaians employment in the oil and gas industry Geoforum v.96 pp.181-189

2018. [with E. E. Yekple]. Urban water stress and poor sanitation in Ghana: perception and experiences of residents in the Ashaiman Municipality. GeoJournal, 83, 583-594.

2018. [with V.K. Asamoah]. Local participation, institutions and land acquisition for energy infrastructure: The case of the Atuabo gas project in Ghana. Energy Research & Social Science.

2017. The micro-mechanisms of power in local content requirements and their constraints on Ghanian SMEs in the oil and gas sector. Norwegian Journal of Geography. DOI: 10.1080/00291951.2017.1299213.

2017. [with R. Badwi and R. Overå]. The importance and limitations of social networks for labour market integration of Ghanaian immigrants in Bergen, Norway. Norwegian Journal of Geography. DOI: 10.1080/00291951.2017.1406402.

Bertelsen, Bjørn Enge

2021. [with J. Sumich] Just out of Reach: Imminence and Political Subjectivity in Mozambique. (published online) Journal of Current Anthropology.

2021. A lesser human? Utopian registers of urban reconfiguration in Maputo, Mozambique. Social Anthropology 29(1) DOI: 10.1111/1469-8676.12988

2020. [with M. Nielsen and J. Sumich]. Enclaving: Spatial Detachment as and Aesthetics of Imagination in an Urban Sub-Saharan African Context. Urban Studies.

2019. [co-edited with Sheila Pereira Khan and Maria Paula Meneses] Mozambique on the Move: Challenges and Reflections. Leiden: Brill, pp. 294.

2018. Composing texts and the composition of uprisings: Notes on writing the postcolonial political. In Morten Nielsen and Nigel Rapport (eds) The Composition of Anthropology: How Anthropological Texts Are Written. London: Routledge, pp. 56-72.

2017. Efervescência efémera: levantamentos populares urbanos em Moçambique. In Luís de Brito (ed.) Agora eles têm medo de nós! - Uma colectânea de textos sobre as revoltas populares em Moçambique (2008-2012). Maputo: IESE, pp. 124-152 [OPEN ACCESS book and chapter]

2016. Violent Becomings: State Formation, Sociality, and Power in Mozambique. New York: Berghahn Books, pp. 320. [OPEN ACCESS BOOK].

2014a. Effervescence and Ephemerality: Popular Urban Uprisings in Mozambique. Ethnos: Journal of Anthropology, DOI:10.1080/00141844.2014.929596.

2014b. [with Inge Tvedten and Sandra Roque] Engaging, Transcending and Subverting Dichotomies: Discursive Dynamics of Maputo’s Urban Space. Urban Studies, 51(13):2752-2769, DOI: 10.1177/0042098013512872.

Gastrow, Claudia

2020. DIY Verticality: The Politics of Materiality in Luanda City & Society, 32: 93-117.

2020. Housing middle-classness: formality and the making of distinction in Luanda. Africa, 90(3), 509-528.

2020. Urban States: The Presidency and Planning in Luanda, Angola. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 44: 366-383.

2019. Recycling Consumption: Political Power and Elite Wealth in Angola. In D. Posel & I. Van Wyk (Eds.), Conspicuous Consumption in Africa pp. 79-95. Wits University Press.

2017. Cement Citizens: Housing, Demolition and Political Belonging in Luanda, Angola. Citizenship Studies. 21(2): 224 – 239

2017. Aesthetic Dissent: Urban Redevelopment and Political Belonging in Luanda, Angola. Antipode. 49 (2): 377 - 396

2017. Urban. Somatosphere. 6 November.

Manuel, Sandra

2021. Performing Respect: Contemporary Strategies and Lived Experiences in Intimate Relationships in Maputo. Journal of African Cultural Studies. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13696815.2021.1930521

2014. [with R. Pose, J. Engel, & A. Pocin]. Against All Odds: Mozambique’s Gains in Primary Health Care. ODI Development Progress. London: Overseas Development Institute.

2013. Sexuality in Cosmopolitan Maputo: The Aesthetics of Gendered Practice Through the Lenses of Class, in B. Obrist, V. Arlt & E. Macamo (eds.) Living the City in Africa: Processes of Invention and Intervention. Schweizerische Afrikastudien Vol. 10, Berlin: Lit-Verlag.

2012. [ed.]. Expressões da homossexualidade em Maputo. Estudos Homossexuais Vol.1. Maputo, Lambda UNFPA.

2011. [with E. Gune]. Doing Research on Sexuality in Africa: Ethical Dilemmas and the Positioning of the Researcher, in S.Tamale (ed), African Sexualities: A reader. Oxford, Pambazuka.

Mkhwanazi, Nolwazi

2018. Why Ethnography matters: A southern African perspective. In R. Rinehart, J. Kidd & A. Garcia. Southern Hemisphere ethnographies of place, space and time. Bern, Switzerland: Peter Lang.

2017 [with D. Bhana]. Understanding Young families in South Africa. In N. Mkhwanazi and D. Bhana (eds) Young Families: Gender, Sexuality and Care. Cape Town: HSRC Press.

2017. Rethabile’s Story: To be young, pregnant and black. In N. Mkhwanazi and D. Bhana (eds) Young Families: Gender, Sexuality and Care. Cape Town: HSRC Press.

2016. Medical Anthropology in Africa: The trouble with a single story. Medical Anthropology 35(2): 193- 202.

2016 [with E. Block] Paternity matters: Premarital childbearing and belonging in South Africa and Lesotho. Social Dynamics 42(2): 273-288.

2016 [with L. Manderson and E. Block]. Fragility, fluidity, and resilience: Caregiving configurations three decades into AIDS. AIDS Care 28 (S4): 1-7.

2015. Twenty years of democracy and the politics of reproduction in South Africa. African Identities. 12 (3/4): 326-341.

2014. “An African way of doing things”: reproducing gender and generation. Anthropology Southern Africa 37 (1/2): 107-118.