Interesting piece. Left me with a puzzle. When scholars (or anyone for that matter) are accused of not answering the "what is to be done" question, is it because they actually haven't answered or because critics don't like the answer?
Sylvia Croese’s keynote on Gradualism as it manifests in political governance and development projects across Angola. Chaired by Biruk Terrefe #UTADo2026 @acc-uct.bsky.social
A lively discussion on Energy, Finance and Technology in African Cities between Biniyam Bekele of FCDO and Henol Assefa of Precise Ethiopia moderat d by Liza Rose Cirolia #UTADo2026 @acc-uct.bsky.social
Cover of the forthcoming book! Digital Solidarity Economy in Latin America, edited by me, Alessio Bertolini and María Belén Albornoz, by Bristol University Press.
#UTADo2026 writing track participants closed off the wee by discussing the peer review process: how to receive, analyse, work with and respond to reviews. They also developed the plan towards developing the papers they have been working on this week. @acc-uct.bsky.social @urbanstudiesfoundation.org
Matthew Wakhungu of #KDI interactive session on projects of repair and corrective approaches to unjust urban life. Participants discussed what urban peripheries they interact with in their work #UTADo2026 @acc-uct.bsky.social
Domani a Milano!
Can't wait to read!
Wonderful to be featured in the best newsletter ever! Thank you @the-syllabus.bsky.social
Honored to have an excerpt of my book featured in @restofworld.org
Andrea Pollio
Urban Theory Africa- Doing Workshop (UTA-Do)
Urban Theory Africa- Doing Workshop (UTA-Do)
Urban Theory Africa- Doing Workshop (UTA-Do)
Urban Theory Africa- Doing Workshop (UTA-Do)
Andrea Pollio
Andrea Pollio
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Rafael Grohmann
Devika Narayan
The “decolonial turn" arrived in the 1990s as an alleged alternative to Eurocentric Marxism and poststructuralism. Yet as our essay of the week suggests, its emancipatory promise remains compromised by its detachment from material struggle.
By Federico Perelmuter in @aeon.co
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Nairobi has become a test-site for China’s techno-capital. Our book of the week maps how the city's new digital ecosystem challenges both the West-centric script of technological “catch-up” and alarmist tales of neocolonialism.
By @andretwp.bsky.social on @ucpress.bsky.social
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🚨It’s publication day!🚨
My book OCCUPIED REFUGE is officially OUT today with Duke University Press. Available to order from all book shops!
Upcoming book launches in Glasgow, Oxford, Nairobi and—perhaps—a city near you!
Read the introduction for free online: www.dukeupress.edu/occupied-ref...
In the new book “Silicon Elsewhere: Nairobi, Global China, and the Promise of Techno-Capital,” writer @andretwp.bsky.social charts the growth of Chinese investment and companies in the Kenyan capital.
Read an excerpt about the spread of cheap Chinese phones:
restofworld.org/2026/china-k...
In his new book “Silicon Elsewhere: Nairobi, Global China, and the Promise of Techno-Capital,” writer Andrea Pollio charts the growth of Chinese investment and companies in the Kenyan capital.
