Critical African Studies, Volume 9, Issue 2 (2017)

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Vital Instability: Ontological Insecurity and African Urbanisms

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Vital instability: ontological insecurity and African urbanisms
Matthew Wilhelm-Solomon, Peter Kankonde Bukasa & Lorena Núñez
Pages: 141-151
Published online: 20 Jul 2017
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The Blues and the Damned: (Black) life-that-survives capital and biopolitics
Sharad Chari
Pages: 152-173
Published online: 20 Jul 2017
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The ruinous vitalism of the urban form: ontological orientations in inner-city Johannesburg
Matthew Wilhelm-Solomon
Pages: 174-191
Published online: 20 Jul 2017
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Life (and limb) in the fast-lane: disposable people as infrastructure in Kampala’s boda boda industry
Jacob Doherty
Pages: 192-209
Published online: 03 May 2017
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‘We are analogue in a digital world’: an anthropological exploration of ontologies and uncertainties around the proposed Konza Techno City near Nairobi, Kenya
Jan Van den Broeck
Pages: 210-225
Published online: 16 Jun 2017
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Spiritual brokers: African Pastors and the mediation of migratory processes
Rafael Cazarin & Erma Cossa
Pages: 226-240
Published online: 15 Jun 2017
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Navigating ‘ngunda’/‘adoro’ and negotiating economic uncertainty amongst mobile Cameroonian migrants in Cape Town (South Africa)
Henrietta M. Nyamnjoh
Pages: 241-260
Published online: 20 Jul 2017
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