Water Infrastructure in a small west African city: Situating sharing and volunteering in the making of urban infrastructures

• Published in: Geoforum Vol. 132; pp. 135 - 144
• Main Author: Neves Alves, Susana
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Elsevier Ltd 01.06.2022; Elsevier Science Ltd
• Subjects: African cities; Careers; Donors; Governance; Infrastructure; Neighborhoods; Networking; Small cities; Social infrastructures; Social relations; Urban infrastructure; Volunteers; Water; Water circulation; Water regimes; Water sharing; Water supply; Water supply systems; Water utilities; Urban infrastructure; Water; Social infrastructures; Water sharing; Small cities; African cities

•Variety of infrastructural configurations emerging in small cities in Africa.•Focus on everyday practices to conceptualise water infrastructure.•Water sharing as everyday practice and political terrain.•Volunteering/ relentless unpaid labour in infrastructure making as social infrastructure.•Standa...