Shaping Claims to Urban Land : : An Ethnographic Guide to Governmentality in Bukavu's Hybrid Spaces / / Fons van Overbeek.

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• VerfasserIn: Overbeek, Fons van,
• Place / Publishing House: München ;, Wien : : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Connectivity and Society in Africa , 2
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (XV, 494 p.)

The concept of 'hybridity' is often still poorly theorized and problematically applied by peace and development scholars and researchers of resource governance. This book turns to a particular ethnographic reading of Michel Foucault's Governmentality and investigates its usefulness to study precisely those mechanisms, processes and practices that hybridity once promised to clarify. Claim-making to land and authority in a post-conflict environment is the empirical grist supporting this exploration of governmentality. Specifically in the periphery of Bukavu. This focus is relevant as urban land is increasingly becoming scarce in rapidly expanding cities of eastern Congo, primarily due to internal rural-to-urban migration as a result of regional insecurity. The governance of urban land is also important analytically as land governance and state authority in Africa are believed to be closely linked and co-evolve. An ethnographic reading of governmentality enables researchers to study hybridization without biasing analysis towards hierarchical dualities. Additionally, a better understanding of hybridization in the claim-making practices may contribute to improved government intervention and development assistance in Bukavu and elsewhere.

Table of Contents

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