Under construction – towards critical perspectives on infrastructuring and infrastructured labour in Africa

The editorial of this special issue argues that the relationship between infrastructure and labour is often addressed, but rarely conceptualised, requiring more nuanced concepts and empirical insights. This special issue promotes the heuristic of infrastructuring labour and infrastructured labour as a framework for analysing several case studies in Africa. The heuristic provides a foundation for examining both embodied and structural aspects of gendered, colonial and class-based labour regimes in Africa. This special issue collects articles that highlight various kinds of relationships between infrastructure and labour, as well as the oppressive and liberatory potential of these relationships.