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“You Rise Up … They Burn You Again”: Market fires and the urban intimacies of disaster colonialism
Author(s) -
Faria Caroline,
Katushabe Jovah,
Kyotowadde Catherine,
Whitesell Dominica
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
transactions of the institute of british geographers
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.196
H-Index - 107
eISSN - 1475-5661
pISSN - 0020-2754
DOI - 10.1111/tran.12404
Subject(s) - colonialism , yard , politics , commodification , sociology , framing (construction) , narrative , political economy , economy , political science , history , economics , law , archaeology , linguistics , philosophy , physics , quantum mechanics
This paper develops a feminist political ecology of disaster colonialism. It does so via an analysis of a series of fires in one of the largest markets in East Africa.