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Publications: DR William Monteith

( 2025 ) . Speculative connections: Port authorities, littoral territories and the assembling of the green hydrogen frontier . Political Geography vol. 118 , Article 103271 , 103271 - 103271 .
( 2025 ) . Reworlding Antiwork Politics . Antipode vol. 57 , ( 3 ) 1062 - 1082 .
( 2024 ) . Producing ‘The Right Candidate’: The Social Embeddedness of Labour Market Intermediaries for Migrant Workers in the Belgian Construction Sector . Work, Employment and Society vol. 39 , ( 3 ) 596 - 614 .
( 2024 ) . Rethinking ‘work’ from the cities of the south . The Companion to Development Studies , Routledge
( 2022 ) . Chapter 4 ‘Precarious Prosperity’? Social Im/mobilities among Young Entrepreneurs in Kampala . Social Im/mobilities in Africa , Berghahn Books
( 2021 ) . Of Market Vendors and Waste Collectors: Labour, Informality, and Aesthetics in the Era of World‐Class City Making . Antipode vol. 55 , ( 4 ) 1068 - 1088 .
( 2021 ) . ‘Don’t you want us to eat?’: the moral economy of a Ugandan marketplace . Critical African Studies vol. 16 , ( 1 ) 17 - 33 .
( 2021 ) . ‘We are taught to act’: hustling on the move in Kampala and Nairobi . Africa vol. 91 , ( 1 ) 95 - 112 .
( 2021 ) . BEYOND THE WAGE: Ordinary Work in Diverse Economies .
( 2021 ) . Introduction: Work Beyond the Wage . Beyond the Wage Ordinary Work in Diverse Economies1 - 19 .
( 2021 ) . Mary Njeri Kinyanjui, African Markets and the Utu-ubuntu Business Model: a perspective on economic informality in Nairobi. Cape Town: African Minds (pb R250 – 978 1 928331 78 0). 2019, 200 pp . vol. 91 , is. 1 , pp. 123 - 125 . Cambridge University Press (CUP)
( 2019 ) . Business as family, family as business: Female entrepreneurship in Kampala, Uganda . Geoforum vol. 101 , 111 - 121 .
( 2019 ) . ‘Precarious prosperity’? Social im/mobilities among young entrepreneurs in Kampala . Social Im Mobilities in Africa Ethnographic Approaches ,
( 2018 ) . Book review: New Urban Worlds: Inhabiting Dissonant Times . Urban Studies vol. 55 , ( 11 ) 2561 - 2564 .
( 2018 ) . Showing ‘heart’ while making money: negotiating proximity in a Ugandan marketplace . Africa vol. 88 , ( S1 ) S12 - S30 .
( 2017 ) . Markets and monarchs: indigenous urbanism in postcolonial Kampala . Settler Colonial Studies vol. 9 , ( 2 ) 247 - 265 .
( 2017 ) . Showing ‘heart’ through ethnography . City vol. 21 , ( 2 ) 178 - 189 .
( 2017 ) . The participation of urban displaced populations in (in)formal markets: contrasting experiences in Kampala, Uganda . Environment and Urbanization vol. 29 , ( 2 ) 383 - 402 .
( 2016 ) . ‘When the stomach is full we look for respect’: perceptions of ‘good work’ in the urban informal sectors of three developing countries . Work, Employment and Society vol. 31 , ( 5 ) 816 - 833 .
( 2016 ) . A ‘Market for the People’? Changing structures of governance and participation in a Ugandan marketplace . Development vol. 58 , ( 1 ) 58 - 64 .