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Once imagined as concretisations of colonial rationality and postcolonial progress, most African cities are now seen as outstripping capacity to care for, count and contain their fastgrowing populations. And yet, every day, Africans set out on the streets to make the city legible, healthy, function and flow. Rather than describe the disordering of urban Africa, this panel seeks to interrogate the changing capacities, civic engagements, circulations and connections of those who work to order the city. The routine dimensions of urban street-level work –such as cleaning, collecting, inspecting, selling, transporting, surveying, policing and researching—connect official designs of governance, health and cleanliness to the liveliness of city streets; they also link the temporal layers that make up urban spaces. The histories of African cities were marked by the trajectories of these workers; while their current movements around the city continue to be animated by echoes and material traces of multiple pasts. By following the complex pathways of past and present mobile street-level workers in Africa, the papers in this panel will reflect on the city as a site of historical knowledge and experiences of transformation in Africa. Bringing together diverse historiographic and ethnographic approaches to a similar empirical object, the aim of this panel is to investigate how and to what extent colonial and postcolonial projects, and their erosion by processes of adjustment, informalisation and pauperisation, structure(d) the experience and ordering of the city.
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Accepted Abstracts
Informality and Governmentality in Post-Apartheid Johannesburg
Knowledge in and of the Body: Social Workers, Nurses, and Layethnographers as Actors in the New Regimes of Urban Welfare in West Africa
Using Sanitation Day in Ibadan
‘Forward with broom’: Street sweepers in a Zimbabwean city
Thésards and Toxins: Pharmacy students on the streets of Dakar
Volunteer Health Workers and the HIV City
Extending the City: Journeys of Health Care Volunteers in and out of Bo, Sierra Leone
Science Workers in the City - AIDS, Class and Urban Change
