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Urban Forum (2012) 23:409–414 DOI 10.1007/s12132-012-9180-y Ilda Lindell & Mats Utas Published online: 30 October 2012 Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2012 Informality is pervasive in many cities in Africa and beyond. It has become “an organizing urban logic” (Roy and Alsayyad 2004). Informal modes of urban living require that urbanites develop forms of social organization in order to deal with most aspects of urban life. What appears to outsiders as chaotic informal urban activity is usually structured by webs of relationships that lend life in highly uncertain urban settings a degree of predictability. This thematic issue addresses the varied forms of social organization that permeate the expanding informality in urban Africa. Such forms may range from networks of personal connections to more structured forms of association (Lindell 2010; Lourenço-Lindell 2002). The articles draw upon primary data and in-depth studies of various sectors and facets of informal life in such diverse urban settings as Accra, Addis Ababa, Bamenda, Goma, Koforidua, Kaduna, and Nairobi. Taken together, they expose the great diversity and complexity of such forms of social organization, thus defying one-sided views and simplistic assumptions about the nature of urban networks. The explored forms of social collaboration reveal varying degrees
Urban Forum – Springer Journals
Published: Oct 30, 2012
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