This book provides the first comprehensive analysis of urban destruction. It argues that it is necessary to address the widespread and deliberate destruction of buildings as a distinct form of political violence. In this sense it is productive to see this phenomenon as 'urbicide', or the destruction of urbanity. The book proposes that the destruction of urbanity comprises a pattern that is aimed at the destruction of the shared spaces that are constituted by buildings. These shared spaces are precisely what fosters heterogeneous communities. The author argues that the destruction of...
This book provides the first comprehensive analysis of urban destruction. It argues that it is necessary to address the widespread and deliberate d...
Negotiating Corruption demands that we think again about corruption in Africa. It problematises the framing of African corruption as a phenomenon that emerges from a clash between two sets of norms. Moreover, it highlights the colonial legacies of this frame, which situates African corruption within continually recurring debates about the political inclusion or banishment of 'others'.
NGOs are characterised as intermediaries between the local and the international, and between the state and the population. In both of these roles they are understood to reform...
Negotiating Corruption demands that we think again about corruption in Africa. It problematises the framing of African corruption as a phe...
