New publication:
Valentine Opanga @zefbonn.bsky.social & Prince Guma @cam.ac.uk show how “greening” in informal settlements in Nairobi isn’t always green—it's often tied to power, displacement, and deepening inequality.
More: crc-trr228.de/new-study-re...
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In this study, Valentine Opanga (associate researcher Project C03 "Green Futures") and Prince Guma (Cambridge University) analyse how struggles over green and
The fourth talk in the Urban Multiplicities Seminar Series will be delivered by @princeguma.bsky.social (@campolis.bsky.social) in collaboration with @infrastructuralgeo.bsky.social
Tuesday 10th March, 16:30–18:00, Small Lecture Theatre. All welcome!
CRC-TRR 228 Future Rural Africa
Call for Papers 📢
Excited to announce our panel at the @pollenetwork.bsky.social Conference (Barcelona, June 29 - July 3, 2026): "Cities, Urban Metabolism and the Polycrisis." 🏙️
If you work on urban metabolism or critical studies of cities & infrastructure, we want your contribution!
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Announcing the Urban Multiplicities Seminar Series, featuring six brilliant speakers
@rikjaz.bsky.social
@ayonadatta.bsky.social
Charlotte Lemanski
@princeguma.bsky.social
@maanbarua.bsky.social
@profgillian.bsky.social
Location: Small Lecture Theatre @camunigeography.bsky.social
New Special Issue with the free-to-read editorial 'Under construction – towards critical perspectives on infrastructuring and infrastructured labour in Africa', guest edited by Theo Aalders, Prince Guma, Evelyne Owino & Dr Gideon Tups.
doi.org/10.1080/2162...
Beyond surveillance and control: how are data and AI mobilized as infrastructures of resistance?
This paper shifts attention from data and AI as instruments of authoritarian power to their potential as infrastructures of resistance and political organizing.
doi.org/10.1080/0272...
Beyond surveillance and control: how are data and AI mobilized as infrastructures of resistance?
This paper shifts attention from data and AI as instruments of authoritarian power to their potential as infrastructures of resistance and political organizing.
doi.org/10.1080/0272...
Urban Multiplicities
Urban Multiplicities
Existing studies across Geography and related fields have yet to develop a sustained account of how new and emergent digital technologies reconfigure popular resistance and dissent under authoritar...
Existing studies across Geography and related fields have yet to develop a sustained account of how new and emergent digital technologies reconfigure popular resistance and dissent under authoritar...
X/ “Where Is the African Urbanist” is published (though still behind a paywall).
I argue for the need to decenter and pluralize global urban thought
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
From the late 1950s a new generation of African writers challenged colonial systems and used their work to imagine a new world.
theconversation.com/ngugi-wa-thi...
#ArtsCultureAndSociety
www.tandfonline.com
Urban theory and geographic thought are, by nature, incomplete and continually evolving, yet they remain heavily shaped by those who occupy, speak from, and reinforce the center. While past efforts...
