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Book SynopsisThe edited collection Spatial Practices: Territory, Border and Infrastructure in Africa presents research findings from the German Research Council’s Priority Programme 1448 “Adaptation and Change in Africa” (2011-2018). At the heart of the volume are important new spatial practices that have emerged after the end of the Cold War in the fields of conflict, climate change, migration and urban development, to name but a few, and their ordering effects with regard to social relations. These findings bear particular relevance for the co-production of territorialities and sovereignties, for borders and migrations, as well as infrastructures and orders. Contributors are: Sabine Baumgart, Andrea Behrends, Marc Boeckler, Martin Doevenspeck, Ulf Engel, Claudia Gebauer, Karsten Giese, Katharina Heitz Tokpa, Shahadat Hossain, Anna Hüncke, Gabriel Klaeger, Kelly Si Miao Liang, Andreas Mehler, Felix Müller, Detlef Müller-Mahn, Wolfgang Scholz, Sophie Schramm, Jannik Schritt, Michael Stasik, Florian Weisser, Julia Willers, and Franzisca Zanker.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures Abbreviations Contributors 1 African Spaces of Global Order: Territory, Border and Infrastructure in Africa Marc Boeckler, Ulf Engel and Detlef Müller-Mahn Part 1: Territories and Sovereignties 2 Struggling for Sovereignty: Political Authority and the Governance of Climate Change in Ethiopia Detlef Müller-Mahn, Florian Weisser and Julia Willers 3 Adaptation to Climate Change and New Spaces of Facilitated Control in Rwanda Claudia Gebauer and Martin Doevenspeck 4 Ethiopian Federalism Revisited: Reterritorialization, Nationality, and the (De)legitimization of Ordering Practices Felix Müller 5 Territorialisation in Post-Conflict Contexts: Claims to Space and Conflict Management Franzisca Zanker and Andreas Mehler Part 2: Borders and Mobilities 6 Territorial Power without Sovereignty: Hunters and the State on Côte d’Ivoire’s Northern Margins Katharina Heitz Tokpa 7 At a Crossing Point: Negotiating Access to Spaces at the South African-Zimbabwean Border Anna Hüncke 8 Shifting Territorialities of an African Space in China Karsten Giese and Kelly Si Miao Liang Part 3: Infrastructure and Order(s) 9 Reordering Ghana’s Roadside Spaces: Hawking in Times of Infrastructural Renewal Michael Stasik and Gabriel Klaeger 10 On-demand Connections, Formalization and Multiplications: Dis/ordering Water Supply in Kimara Mwisho, Dar es Salaam Sophie Schramm 11 Territorialisation, Urban Planning and Spatial Dis/order in Dar es Salaam Shahadat Hossain, Wolfgang Scholz and Sabine Baumgart 12 “Western” and “Chinese” Oil zones: Petro-Infrastructures and the Emergence of New Trans-territorial Spaces of Order in Niger and Chad Jannik Schritt and Andrea Behrends Index
