Tackling Infrastructure

@BritishAcademy_ initiative that learns & draws from everyday innovative solutions & infrastructural practices beyond formal routes & mechanisms | @PrinceGuma

[Tackling Infrastructure @tacklinginfra]

Beating the system. Taxi as cargo. Uganda under lockdown, only cargo allowed to move. Problem solved.

[Prince Guma @PrinceGuma]

My paper “Where Is the African Urbanist” is published in Urban Geography.

I argue for the need to decenter and pluralize global urban thought

https://t.co/z2fVZhLvQz

[AbdouMaliq Simone @XazaarAdjame]

Unbuilding | Society for Cultural Anthropology https://t.co/Uxf8lzVviI

[Prince Guma @PrinceGuma]

My paper, ‘Everyday Infrastructures of Urban Life’, now published in this latest issue of IJURR: https://t.co/eeMZC4YrAc

[IJURR.org @IJURResearch]

Everyday infrastructures enable, mediate, and shape the architecture of urban living, sustaining routines of dwelling, inhabitation, and survival and forming the norm in daily rhythms for majority populations beyond linear temporalities of urban life.

📖 https://t.co/4T1CS8ijyN

[Prince Guma @PrinceGuma]

New paper out in our special issue — ‘Africa Under Construction: Critical Perspectives on Infrastructure and Labour’!

I explore how informal work and governance shape Africa’s smart urban futures.

#SmartCities #UrbanAfrica #Labour #Infrastructure https://t.co/MvZWp3tpx8

[michele lancione @michelelancione]

On 15th April, 5:30pm CEST @InhabitationLab welcomes the distinguished Palestinian scholar Dr Mahmoud Hawari @mhawari81

The talk is titled "Palestine: Settler Colonialism, Archeology, and the Appropriation of Cultural Heritage"

To attend online 👉 https://t.co/KEHBVba8KP

[Prince Guma @PrinceGuma]

It was a great pleasure to discuss Armelle Choplin’s Concrete City: Material Flows and Urbanization in West Africa on the Urban Political Podcast with Wangui Kimari and Alice Hertzog, warmly hosted by Nitin Bathla!

Listen here:
https://t.co/Q5NgsMm1jE

[Prince Guma @PrinceGuma]

Nice to see that my paper on ‘everyday infrastructures of urban life’ is now in print at @IJURResearch.

I reiterate the need to reorient the foundational parameters of infrastructure…

https://t.co/ly9gBsTNxO

[Tackling Infrastructure @tacklinginfra]

Paper on ‘everyday infrastructures of urban life’ is now published at @IJURResearch.

https://t.co/67kQLSj5Sh

[IJURR.org @IJURResearch]

Now in Early View: EVERYDAY INFRASTRUCTURES OF URBAN LIFE by Prince K. Guma
https://t.co/O7yy0zwaK4

[Global Development Institute @GlobalDevInst]

In our latest 'GDI in Conversation' video, we spoke with @edrwigi, a PhD candidate currently conducting fieldwork in Nairobi.

Edwin discusses his work with @AfricanCities_ as well as his current research focus on urban informality.

Watch the video in full here: https://t.co/mBeYqcREwe

[Larry Madowo @LarryMadowo]

This picture says a lot about Nairobi 🇰🇪

[Kristof Titeca @KristofTiteca]

🙏🙏🙏In Kampala available at the Uganda Museum and at @mahiribooks - in their new shop at Endiro's, as well as online: https://t.co/UwOvhLiIr0

[AfOx @Africa_Oxford]

📢 Calling all African researchers!

The 2024/25 #AfOxVisitingFellowship at @UniofOxford is open for applications. Develop new collaborations and grow your networks.

🌍 Open to all disciplines!

Apply now! https://t.co/dG2Pqx8Qzb

#ResearchOpportunity

[Ayona Datta moved to @ayonadatta.bsky.social @AyonaDatta]

📢 CfP *Digital Territories* in @RGS_IBG annual conference in London. I am co-organising this session with super colleagues @FennaImara @mariana_reyess as part of @ERC_REGFUT
Please send us your abstracts by 23rd February 2024
#Digital #territory
https://t.co/gfmwc6tD01

[Tackling Infrastructure @tacklinginfra]

The Lobito Corridor: Washington’s Answer to Belt and Road in Africa https://t.co/c7l8LCUTwY

[Zainab Usman @MssZeeUsman]

In the new year, we should leave old baggage behind.

But the specious argument in this article with its offensive title, “The world economy’s biggest problem is Africa” reminiscent of The Economist’s “the Hopeless Continent”, needs to be tackled 🧵 1/
https://t.co/u4C1Bwng3x

[IJURR.org @IJURResearch]

Based on research with 3 Nairobi-based start-ups Andrea Pollio, Liza Rose Cirolia&Jack Ong'iro Odeo illustrate how the process of ‘algorithmic suturing’ is used to knit loose ends of splintered urban networks viewing the last mile as a site of optimization https://t.co/IuVRAQO6vJ