The Potency of the State: Logics of Informality and Subalternity
作为特刊的结语，探讨后殖民政府中国家权力的特殊性，分析国家与底层主体之间的政治效力关系，并思考印度城市非正式性研究中的概念如何适用于南非的非法性生产与统治再生产。
This article serves as an epilogue to the special issue curated by Claire Bénit-Gbaffou and Sarah Charlton with a focus on state power and the concept of informality. In my reflection, I examine the specificity of statecraft in the context of postcolonial government. In particular, I analyse political potency as a relationship between the state and subaltern subjects. Also at stake in this paper is the question of comparative and transnational analysis. In what ways can concepts generated through the study of processes of urban informality in India speak to the production of illegality and the reproduction of rule in South Africa?