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The Potency of the State: Logics of Informality and Subalternity

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This article serves as an epilogue to the special issue curated by Claire Bénit-Gbaffou and Sarah Charlton with a focus on state power and the concept of informality. In my reflection, I examine the specificity of statecraft in the context of postcolonial government. In particular, I analyse political potency as a relationship between the state and subaltern subjects. Also at stake in this paper is the question of comparative and transnational analysis. In what ways can concepts generated through the study of processes of urban informality in India speak to the production of illegality and the reproduction of rule in South Africa?

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  • Ananya Roy, 2018. "The Potency of the State: Logics of Informality and Subalternity," Journal of Development Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 54(12), pages 2243-2246, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:jdevst:v:54:y:2018:i:12:p:2243-2246
    DOI: 10.1080/00220388.2018.1460470
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    1. Michele Acuto & Cecilia Dinardi & Colin Marx, 2019. "Transcending (in)formal urbanism," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 56(3), pages 475-487, February.
    2. Deen Sharp, 2022. "Haphazard urbanisation: Urban informality, politics and power in Egypt," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 59(4), pages 734-749, March.
    3. Tali Ziv, 2022. "THE PRACTICE OF INFORMALITY: Hustling, Anticipating and Refusing in the Postindustrial City," International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 46(5), pages 807-821, September.
    4. Yi Jin & Yimin Zhao, 2022. "THE INFORMAL CONSTITUTION OF STATE CENTRALITY: Governing Street Businesses in (Post‐)Pandemic Chengdu, China," International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 46(4), pages 631-650, July.
    5. Richard Kiaka & Shiela Chikulo & Sacha Slootheer & Paul Hebinck, 2021. "“The street is ours”. A comparative analysis of street trading, Covid-19 and new street geographies in Harare, Zimbabwe and Kisumu, Kenya," Food Security: The Science, Sociology and Economics of Food Production and Access to Food, Springer;The International Society for Plant Pathology, vol. 13(5), pages 1263-1281, October.

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