MOBILE URBANITY. Translocal Traders and City in Southern Africa

Piscitelli P. (2018), MOBILE URBANITY. Translocal Traders and City in Southern Africa, Planum Publisher, Roma-Milano | ISBN 9788899237141 See the preview of the publication on ISSUU.com (below) and download the full text (above and on the right column)! As many translocal and cross-border traders, mukheristas cover thousands of miles every week to supply urban markets, thus feeding themselves, their families and the cities they connect. After an intensive field work travelling with mukheristas between Maputo (Mozambique) and Johannesburg (South Africa), the author shows the role of complex hybrid practices of trans-local mobility in shaping cities and territories in sub-saharan Africa. A "research on the road" to reflect on the political relevance of informal mobile practices in troubled urban societies, but also on new theoretical concepts and empirical research approaches. In a world where change is extremely rapid and new issues emerge unremittingly, 'Mobile urbanity' opens up new ways of thinking the spatial dimensions and the agency embraced in human mobility.