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This thesis critically analyses the significance of the local unregulated water market as an underground component of the wider urban waterscape in Ethiopia, specifically a peripheral and low-income sub-city of Addis Ababa called Akaki Kality. Of particular concern are the busin…

Statement of issue. In conflicted societies, some formal land regulatory systems, like exclusionary forms of zoning, are used as mechanisms by the colonizer to control and oppress the colonized and deny their basic human rights and needs (Bollens 1989; Yiftachel, 1996; Ophir, 20…

Physical planning has contributed to perpetuating spatial inequality in Caracas, Venezuela, a dynamic that has many parallelisms with other processes that result in social and economic inequalities in Latin America. The consequence has been the reduction of access to spatial opp…

This ethnography examines Trinidadian politics by exploring everyday forms of participation in authority and what they signal about governance of public life. It first delves into the relationships, values and actions that most matter to ordinary women and men. More specifically…