Introductory Note by the Editors-in-Chief
Sten Hagberg and Jörgen Hellman

Comparative Municipal Ethnographies
Introduction: Comparative Municipal Ethnographies
Sten Hagberg

Community Development and the Third Wave of Decentralisation in Indonesia: The Politics of the 2014 Village Law
Hans Antlöv

Political Gender Dilemmas of Conflict and Complementarity in Bolivia: Quotas, Resistance and Parallelism
Charlotta Widmark

“Like the Chicken and the Egg”: Market Vendors and the Dilemmas of Neoliberal Urban Planning in Re-Centralised Kampala (Uganda)
Anna Baral

“Tout a été loti!”: Decentralisation, Land Speculation and Urban Expansion in Niamey, Niger
Gabriella Körling and Hassane Moussa Ibrahima

Diaspora-Driven Development and Dispute: Home-Area Associations and Municipal Politics in Mali
Sten Hagberg and Bintou Koné

From Refuge to Rights: Majnu ka Tilla Tibetan Colony in New Delhi
Madhura Balasubramaniam and Sonika Gupta

Local Politics in Controlling Commercial Sex in a Philippine Municipality
Mari-Elina Ekoluoma

Divisive Democracy, Urban Trade, and Small-Small Politics in Northern Ghana
Ulrik Jennische

The Rise and Fall of a Political Party: Handling Political Failure in Municipal Elections in Burkina Faso
Sten Hagberg

Bricolage
About the Moralities of the Commons in the East African Cattle Economy
Gudrun Dahl

Harmonization and Ethnographic Critique in the Context of Innovation Politics
Torbjörn Friberg

Witnessing Anthropological Journeys, and the Returns: A Report from the 2019 Vega Symposium
Jörgen Hellman