Project
Archives of the Ethical: Market Exchange, Ethical Relations, and Sensory Politics in the Urban South
Archives of the Ethical: Market Exchange, Ethical Relations, and Sensory Politics in the Urban South brings together in comparative perspective, historically situated ethnographic insights of urban market practices in Cape Town, Accra, and Mumbai.
Project
Speaking Through Houses: Property and Personhood in Zimbabwe’s Urban Margins
In contexts of displacement and marginality, people’s aspirations and active material and political struggles for secure housing – alongside their multi-layered efforts at home-making – might be construed as acts of either insurgent optimism or necessary anticipatory investment.
Project
Defining Humanity through Water and Sanitation
My project focuses on water and sanitation through the technologies that provide them, as a highly specific material index for abstract sensibilities about what constitutes a proper and dignified human life.
Publication
Gastrow, Claudia. 2020. Housing middle-classness: formality and the making of distinction in Luanda
Gastrow, Claudia. 2020. Housing middle-classness: formality and the making of distinction in Luanda. Africa, 90(3), 509–528. https://doi.org...
