Buffering State-making: Geopolitics in the Sudd Marshlands of South Sudan

Paths of authority, roads of resistance: Ambiguous rural infrastructure and slippery stabilization in eastern DR Congo

“…A final set of consequences of the geomorphological properties of eastern Congo and similar settings (cf. Schouten and Bachmann, 2020) relate to how they feed into the infrastructural frontier's distinct tem-poralities. Just as roads in eastern Congo are not 'infrastructural', the political effects of road rehabilitation are not 'structural': they fade away after the last road worker leaves and the first rains start.…”