Co-producing maintenance and repair: hybrid labor relations in water supply in Accra, Ghana

Lazarus Jambadu, Francesca Pilo’ and Jochen Monstadt

Urban Research & Practice, 2024, vol. 17, issue 2, 280-302

Abstract: Access to water supply is still a problem in African cities. This has sparked discussions about how small-scale private actors could collaborate with the state to improve water supply. However, scholarly discussions on water supply have hardly examined the role of such actors in maintenance and repair. This paper shows how water infrastructures are maintained and repaired through hybrid labor relations between private and public actors where formal and informal practices are combined. These findings allow us to shift conceptualization in maintenance and repair beyond the state and explain how private actors enact and challenge the state’s power through maintenance and repair practices.

Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1080/17535069.2023.2180325

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