Henrike Donner looks at homeownership in #Kolkata, revealing how gendered interdependence is built into the very schemes that follow from state policies, as mortgage terms and property developments discriminate against unmarried women. https://doi.org/10.1177/0308275X221139158

Marek Mikuš shows how schemes to broaden access to housing credit in #Croatia have increased pressure on the urban middle classes, and demonstrates the role of overlapping classification practices of financial and state institutions in class formation. https://doi.org/10.1177/0308275X221139159

Maxim Bolt looks at legal professionals at the #Johannesburg Master’s Office, the institution responsible for deceased estates. Navigating different publics, they stand for both the possibilities of post-apartheid justice and the realities of an alienating and dated system. https://doi.org/10.1177/0308275X221139163

@jonschub explores ideals of professionalism among public administrators in #Mozambique’s hydrocarbons sector and how these notions, despite a fundamental shift from socialist to capitalist logics, serve to produce critical distance from the state they serve. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0308275X221139160