In Spatial Practices: Territory, Border and Infrastructure in Africa research findings from a truly inter-disciplinary research project on new spatial practices in Africa and their ordering effects on social relations are introduced.

Acknowledgements List of Figures Abbreviations Contributors 1 African Spaces of Global Order: Territory, Border and Infrastructure in Africa  Marc Boeckler, Ulf Engel and Detlef Müller-Mahn Part 1: Territories and Sovereignties 2 Struggling for Sovereignty: Political Authority and the Governance of Climate Change in Ethiopia  Detlef Müller-Mahn, Florian Weisser and Julia Willers 3 Adaptation to Climate Change and New Spaces of Facilitated Control in Rwanda  Claudia Gebauer and Martin Doevenspeck 4 Ethiopian Federalism Revisited: Reterritorialization, Nationality, and the (De)legitimization of Ordering Practices  Felix Müller 5 Territorialisation in Post-Conflict Contexts: Claims to Space and Conflict Management  Franzisca Zanker and Andreas Mehler Part 2: Borders and Mobilities 6 Territorial Power without Sovereignty: Hunters and the State on Côte d’Ivoire’s Northern Margins  Katharina Heitz Tokpa 7 At a Crossing Point: Negotiating Access to Spaces at the South African-Zimbabwean Border  Anna Hüncke 8 Shifting Territorialities of an African Space in China  Karsten Giese and Kelly Si Miao Liang Part 3: Infrastructure and Order(s) 9 Reordering Ghana’s Roadside Spaces: Hawking in Times of Infrastructural Renewal  Michael Stasik and Gabriel Klaeger 10 On-demand Connections, Formalization and Multiplications: Dis/ordering Water Supply in Kimara Mwisho, Dar es Salaam  Sophie Schramm 11 Territorialisation, Urban Planning and Spatial Dis/order in Dar es Salaam  Shahadat Hossain, Wolfgang Scholz and Sabine Baumgart 12 “Western” and “Chinese” Oil zones: Petro-Infrastructures and the Emergence of New Trans-territorial Spaces of Order in Niger and Chad  Jannik Schritt and Andrea Behrends Index