W Monteith
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 38113 |
|---|---|
| NOME | W Monteith |
| PRENOMES | W |
| SOBRENOME | Monteith |
| ASSINATURA | MONTEITH W |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Queen Mary University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7842-1575 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 15 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 85 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 15 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2017 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Against ‘green jobs’
Green Refrontierisation
Land is a critical requirement of low‐carbon energy transitions, driving global land acquisitions on an unprecedented scale. Under pressure to diversify and decarbonise their energy mix, European states and investors have begun to map the ‘green hydrogen potential’ of territories on the African continent, producing powerful new visualisations of energy space. This article provides a critical cartographic analysis of the green hydrogen (GH2) maps …
Reworlding Antiwork Politics
Antiwork praxis has experienced something of a resurgence in the wake of the global financial crisis and COVID‐19 pandemic. Yet the radical potential of antiwork theory and politics is currently limited by its centring of the histories and subjectivities of (post‐)Fordist wage workers in the Global North. In response, this article argues that a project of “reworlding” antiwork politics is necessary both to extend the antiwork critique by tracing …
Speculative connections
This article examines the role of European port authorities in assembling the green hydrogen frontier through the production of speculative connections with prospective hydrogen export zones in the global South. Specifically, it analyses the role of a particular discursive tool, the pre-feasibility report, in fixing the meaning of Namibian territory for the purposes of green hydrogen export, disembedding hydrogen products from the social, politic…
Producing 'The Right Candidate
Structural labour shortages have increased demand for skilled and documented migrant workers in Western European labour markets. In response, private recruitment agencies are playing a more significant role in the identification, placement and integration of migrant workers. While the literature on labour intermediation practices has largely focused on the commercial and contractual work of matching workers with employers, this article develops a…
Of Market Vendors and Waste Collectors
A growing literature demonstrates the significance of aesthetics within processes of world‐class city making, as decisions about who gets to live and work in the city are increasingly made on the basis of codes of appearance. However, less attention has been paid to how such codes are (re)produced and (re)directed by informal workers and their organisations in everyday practice. Drawing upon a multisided ethnography in Kampala and Delhi, this pap…
Kampala
Located on the northern shores of Lake Victoria (also known as Lake Nalubaale), the city of Kampala was founded on a series of hills, each of which has functioned as a panopticon from which different authorities have sought to project their own visions of order over the surrounding valleys. The foundational hills of Mengo, Rubaga, and Namirembe were settled in the late nineteenth century by the Buganda monarchy, the Catholic Mission (Péres Blanch…
Don’t you want us to eat?’
Marketplaces have long provided a context for witnessing how economic realities get ‘done’ amid broader processes of social and economic transformation. A growing scholarship debates the relationship between markets and capitalist modes of production in Africa, however, less attention has been paid to the moral dimensions of economic life within popular urban marketplaces. This article examines the moral economy of a central marketplace in Kampal…
We are taught to act
This article explores the question of what happens when highly socialized and contingent forms of provisioning go wrong, and young men are forced to start again in unfamiliar urban contexts. The decline of George Mirembe's moneylending business in Kampala pre-empted his departure from the country and his arrival in Nairobi in search of new socio-economic opportunities. Lacking the documents and language skills necessary to enter formal sectors of…
Business as family, family as business
Showing 'heart' while making money
African marketplaces have long been understood as ambivalent spaces; as sites of compliance and transgression, domination and resistance. This ambivalence comes into sharp focus in the urban marketplaces that have absorbed a large proportion of the African workforce over the past four decades. One the one hand, urban markets offer opportunities for the forging of new relationships, or 'fictive kin', beyond the confines of consanguinity and affini…
Markets and monarchs
Although small in number, indigenous urban settlements were of substantial social, cultural and political significance in precolonial Africa. However, many studies of urbanisation on the continent begin with colonisation. As a result, scholars have tended to overemphasise the influence of the colonisers, precluding an analysis of the ability of indigenous populations to resist, reimagine and remake colonial visions of urban life. This paper exami…
Showing ‘heart’ through ethnography
The practice of ethnography in the global south has been the subject of various critiques that encourage researchers to reflect on the complex issues of ethics, positionality and inequality. These issues are arguably particularly complex in urban settings such as the municipal marketplace, where a multitude of moral frameworks are in circulation, and where relationships and obligations are under constant observation. They raise a number of questi…
The participation of urban displaced populations in (in)formal markets
An estimated 60 per cent of the world’s 17 million refugees currently reside in cities, where they often lack access to financial assistance and legal protection. (1) In their absence, displaced populations depend on participation in formal and, more frequently, informal markets for livelihood generation. However, little is known about how refugees enter these markets, how they fare in relation to host populations and internally displaced persons…
When the stomach is full we look for respect
There is growing interest in the ability of the informal sector to provide gainful work in much of the developing world. However, the literature on work in the informal sector remains dominated by resource- and rights-based approaches, which fail to consider the features of work valued by informal workers themselves. This article investigates perceptions of 'good work' based on focus group discussions with informal workers in the capitals of Ugan…
When the stomach is full we look for respect
There is growing interest in the ability of the informal sector to provide gainful work in much of the developing world. However, the literature on work in the informal sector remains dominated by resource- and rights-based approaches, which fail to consider the features of work valued by informal workers themselves. This article investigates perceptions of 'good work' based on focus group discussions with informal workers in the capitals of Ugan…
Showing 'heart' while making money
African marketplaces have long been understood as ambivalent spaces; as sites of compliance and transgression, domination and resistance. This ambivalence comes into sharp focus in the urban marketplaces that have absorbed a large proportion of the African workforce over the past four decades. One the one hand, urban markets offer opportunities for the forging of new relationships, or 'fictive kin', beyond the confines of consanguinity and affini…
The participation of urban displaced populations in (in)formal markets
An estimated 60 per cent of the world’s 17 million refugees currently reside in cities, where they often lack access to financial assistance and legal protection. (1) In their absence, displaced populations depend on participation in formal and, more frequently, informal markets for livelihood generation. However, little is known about how refugees enter these markets, how they fare in relation to host populations and internally displaced persons…
Business as family, family as business
Of Market Vendors and Waste Collectors
A growing literature demonstrates the significance of aesthetics within processes of world‐class city making, as decisions about who gets to live and work in the city are increasingly made on the basis of codes of appearance. However, less attention has been paid to how such codes are (re)produced and (re)directed by informal workers and their organisations in everyday practice. Drawing upon a multisided ethnography in Kampala and Delhi, this pap…
Don’t you want us to eat?’
Marketplaces have long provided a context for witnessing how economic realities get ‘done’ amid broader processes of social and economic transformation. A growing scholarship debates the relationship between markets and capitalist modes of production in Africa, however, less attention has been paid to the moral dimensions of economic life within popular urban marketplaces. This article examines the moral economy of a central marketplace in Kampal…
Speculative connections
This article examines the role of European port authorities in assembling the green hydrogen frontier through the production of speculative connections with prospective hydrogen export zones in the global South. Specifically, it analyses the role of a particular discursive tool, the pre-feasibility report, in fixing the meaning of Namibian territory for the purposes of green hydrogen export, disembedding hydrogen products from the social, politic…
We are taught to act
This article explores the question of what happens when highly socialized and contingent forms of provisioning go wrong, and young men are forced to start again in unfamiliar urban contexts. The decline of George Mirembe's moneylending business in Kampala pre-empted his departure from the country and his arrival in Nairobi in search of new socio-economic opportunities. Lacking the documents and language skills necessary to enter formal sectors of…
Showing ‘heart’ through ethnography
The practice of ethnography in the global south has been the subject of various critiques that encourage researchers to reflect on the complex issues of ethics, positionality and inequality. These issues are arguably particularly complex in urban settings such as the municipal marketplace, where a multitude of moral frameworks are in circulation, and where relationships and obligations are under constant observation. They raise a number of questi…
Producing 'The Right Candidate
Structural labour shortages have increased demand for skilled and documented migrant workers in Western European labour markets. In response, private recruitment agencies are playing a more significant role in the identification, placement and integration of migrant workers. While the literature on labour intermediation practices has largely focused on the commercial and contractual work of matching workers with employers, this article develops a…
Markets and monarchs
Although small in number, indigenous urban settlements were of substantial social, cultural and political significance in precolonial Africa. However, many studies of urbanisation on the continent begin with colonisation. As a result, scholars have tended to overemphasise the influence of the colonisers, precluding an analysis of the ability of indigenous populations to resist, reimagine and remake colonial visions of urban life. This paper exami…
Showing ‘heart’ through ethnography
The practice of ethnography in the global south has been the subject of various critiques that encourage researchers to reflect on the complex issues of ethics, positionality and inequality. These issues are arguably particularly complex in urban settings such as the municipal marketplace, where a multitude of moral frameworks are in circulation, and where relationships and obligations are under constant observation. They raise a number of questi…
The participation of urban displaced populations in (in)formal markets
An estimated 60 per cent of the world’s 17 million refugees currently reside in cities, where they often lack access to financial assistance and legal protection. (1) In their absence, displaced populations depend on participation in formal and, more frequently, informal markets for livelihood generation. However, little is known about how refugees enter these markets, how they fare in relation to host populations and internally displaced persons…
When the stomach is full we look for respect
There is growing interest in the ability of the informal sector to provide gainful work in much of the developing world. However, the literature on work in the informal sector remains dominated by resource- and rights-based approaches, which fail to consider the features of work valued by informal workers themselves. This article investigates perceptions of 'good work' based on focus group discussions with informal workers in the capitals of Ugan…
Showing 'heart' while making money
African marketplaces have long been understood as ambivalent spaces; as sites of compliance and transgression, domination and resistance. This ambivalence comes into sharp focus in the urban marketplaces that have absorbed a large proportion of the African workforce over the past four decades. One the one hand, urban markets offer opportunities for the forging of new relationships, or 'fictive kin', beyond the confines of consanguinity and affini…
Business as family, family as business
Don’t you want us to eat?’
Marketplaces have long provided a context for witnessing how economic realities get ‘done’ amid broader processes of social and economic transformation. A growing scholarship debates the relationship between markets and capitalist modes of production in Africa, however, less attention has been paid to the moral dimensions of economic life within popular urban marketplaces. This article examines the moral economy of a central marketplace in Kampal…
We are taught to act
This article explores the question of what happens when highly socialized and contingent forms of provisioning go wrong, and young men are forced to start again in unfamiliar urban contexts. The decline of George Mirembe's moneylending business in Kampala pre-empted his departure from the country and his arrival in Nairobi in search of new socio-economic opportunities. Lacking the documents and language skills necessary to enter formal sectors of…
Of Market Vendors and Waste Collectors
A growing literature demonstrates the significance of aesthetics within processes of world‐class city making, as decisions about who gets to live and work in the city are increasingly made on the basis of codes of appearance. However, less attention has been paid to how such codes are (re)produced and (re)directed by informal workers and their organisations in everyday practice. Drawing upon a multisided ethnography in Kampala and Delhi, this pap…
Kampala
Located on the northern shores of Lake Victoria (also known as Lake Nalubaale), the city of Kampala was founded on a series of hills, each of which has functioned as a panopticon from which different authorities have sought to project their own visions of order over the surrounding valleys. The foundational hills of Mengo, Rubaga, and Namirembe were settled in the late nineteenth century by the Buganda monarchy, the Catholic Mission (Péres Blanch…
Reworlding Antiwork Politics
Antiwork praxis has experienced something of a resurgence in the wake of the global financial crisis and COVID‐19 pandemic. Yet the radical potential of antiwork theory and politics is currently limited by its centring of the histories and subjectivities of (post‐)Fordist wage workers in the Global North. In response, this article argues that a project of “reworlding” antiwork politics is necessary both to extend the antiwork critique by tracing …
Speculative connections
This article examines the role of European port authorities in assembling the green hydrogen frontier through the production of speculative connections with prospective hydrogen export zones in the global South. Specifically, it analyses the role of a particular discursive tool, the pre-feasibility report, in fixing the meaning of Namibian territory for the purposes of green hydrogen export, disembedding hydrogen products from the social, politic…
Producing 'The Right Candidate
Structural labour shortages have increased demand for skilled and documented migrant workers in Western European labour markets. In response, private recruitment agencies are playing a more significant role in the identification, placement and integration of migrant workers. While the literature on labour intermediation practices has largely focused on the commercial and contractual work of matching workers with employers, this article develops a…
Against ‘green jobs’
Green Refrontierisation
Land is a critical requirement of low‐carbon energy transitions, driving global land acquisitions on an unprecedented scale. Under pressure to diversify and decarbonise their energy mix, European states and investors have begun to map the ‘green hydrogen potential’ of territories on the African continent, producing powerful new visualisations of energy space. This article provides a critical cartographic analysis of the green hydrogen (GH2) maps …
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