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The Multiple Sites of Urban Governance: Insights from an African City

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  • Ilda Lindell

    (The Nordic Africa Institute, PO Box 1703, Uppsala, SE-751 47, Sweden, ilda.lindell@nai.uu.se)

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Contemporary modes of urban governance involve a wide variety of actors. The present paper combines insights from several debates into a framework that considers the multiple sites where practices of governance are exercised and contested, various and entangled layers of relations and a broad range of practices of governance that may involve various modes of power, as well as different scales. The paper illustrates some of these complexities with an empirical study of the governance of marketplaces in Maputo, Mozambique. It shows how urban governance in a context of extensive informalisation and `democratic transition' can be highly fragmented and fluid, contesting some of the assumptions underlying Western debates on urban governance. It also questions notions of the hollowed-out state and an excessive focus on public policy.

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  • Ilda Lindell, 2008. "The Multiple Sites of Urban Governance: Insights from an African City," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 45(9), pages 1879-1901, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:urbstu:v:45:y:2008:i:9:p:1879-1901
    DOI: 10.1177/0042098008093382
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    1. Paul Jenkins, 2001. "Strengthening Access to Land for Housing for the Poor in Maputo, Mozambique," International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 25(3), pages 629-648, September.
    2. Paul Jenkins, 2006. "Image of the City in Mozambique: Civilization, Parasite, Engine of Growth or Place of Opportunity?," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Deborah Fahy Bryceson & Deborah Potts (ed.), African Urban Economies, chapter 4, pages 107-130, Palgrave Macmillan.
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