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Everyday contours and politics of infrastructure: Informal governance of electricity access in urban Ghana

This article contributes to shaping the discourse on unequal geographies of infrastructure and governance in the global South, opening up new ways of thinking through politics, practices and modalities of power. Conceptually, informality, governance and everyday urbanism are drawn on to unpack how t...

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Main Authors:	Ebenezer F Amankwaa, Katherine V. Gough
Format:	Default Article
Published:	2021
Subjects:	Abuja Accra electricity everyday urbanism governance informal settlement informality
Online Access:	https://hdl.handle.net/2134/17040419.v1
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