This introduction to the special issue lays out some of the theoretical underpinnings of the
notion of the 'infrastructural frontier'. We begin by considering infrastructures as material …

In this article, I intend to use archaeology's understanding of deep time and infrastructure to
explore the ways in which state-making has been challenged in the Horn of Africa during the …

Drawing on the literature on the temporalities of infrastructure, this article focuses on the
cyclical assertion of centralized authority through road-building in South Sudan, where …

El camino constituye una mediación material entre las comunidades locales y el Estado. La
constitución de este nexo entraña un enjambre de posibilidades cuya realización es el fruto …

Background: In the last two decades, Kenya's development agenda has focused on Vision
2030's aim of transforming the country into an industrialised, modern-middle-income state …

Abstract In rural northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, many people living among
multiple armed actors understand their vulnerability to violence as related to their …

Background: In the last two decades, Kenya's development agenda has focused on Vision
2030's aim of transforming the country into an industrialised, modern-middle-income state …