In the Editorial to this VSI, I reflect with Astrid Wood (she/her) on the contributions of five decades of African urban scholarship published in Urban Studies Journal and highlight the ways in which it has shaped key fields of urban studies. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00…

'Bullying is a means for mediocre scientists to rise to the top. Some star academics reached their position because they are bullies, not in spite of it.' - Excellent piece about bullying in academia (and really any other professional environment). nature.com/articles/s4156…

Utrecht University now

…and the book is out!
Trying to make sense of a paradox: how “the human” has displaced technology in planning, imagining and contesting urban digital futures. #digitalcities #digitaljustice #smartcities #digitalorder #criticalhumanism LSE Media & Communications Polity

With offers of a fully-funded PhD programme from ⁦University of Oxford⁩ ⁦UniversityofChicago⁩ and ⁦Columbia University⁩
an • selm 🇵🇸⁩ has today accepted the offer from ⁦Columbia University⁩

Tough decision to say bye to beloved ⁦UniversityofChicago⁩
& turn down Oxford.

All the best AKB. Proud Mum

I'm so excited to share my new OA paper 'Colonial laws, postcolonial infrastructures: Land acquisition, urban informality, and politics of infrastructural development in Pakistan' in EPD Society & Space. 1/n

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/02…

'As I finished my PhD thesis, I realized that the thesis had actually narrowed my intellectual lens to the point where I had become, if anything, a little stupider than when I began.'
James C. Scott, 2024
Intellectual Diary of an Iconoclast

Happy to publish my latest in Dialogues in Human Geography (open access).

Moving beyond ‘smart’: Uncovering traditional knowledge in informality

Thank you to Prince Guma (@PrinceGuma), Nancy Odendaal (@NancyO_UCT) and Tathagata Chatterji for engaging with my work.

journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

Featuring me and my bass!

Great to see this Urban Geography virtual collection on Urban Policy Mobilities curated by Kevin ward: Urban policy mobilities in Urban Geography: in retrospect and in prospect tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Always has been

Jon, @princeguma, and AbdouMaliq Simone propose a reinvention of urban environmentalism that views humans as integral components of evolving urban landscapes in the face of the climate crisis. bit.ly/3wEv3KF

Applications welcome to participate in a workshop on 23-24 May 2024, Sheffield (UK), on ‘The epistemic tangles of urban inhabitation’

Organised jointly by the The Urban Institute and our Beyond Inhabitation

Send in your 250-word abstracts before 25th March.

Info: beyondinhabitation.org/the-epistemic-…

“I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.”
— Angela Y. Davis

What are the challenges & opportunities facing Geography as a discipline globally? At Transactions, we have asked that question in two collections.
See pieces from Cambodia, the Philippines, China, Sri Lanka, India, Brazil, Colombia, Italy, South Africa, Australia, & the US...1/2

Join the 20th edition of the City Debates Conference, Disrupted Urbanisms, on March 6–8, 2024 at ALH American University of Beirut

Extremely excited to announce that Center for Global Development's Migration, Displacement, and Humanitarian Policy Program is hiring for a new Senior / Research Fellow!

Ideally working on green-skilled migration, labor mobility, and other research areas. Closing March 16!

…erforglobaldevelopment.applytojob.com/apply/xwoBEwXT…

What better encapsulation of Israel in all its depravity than female soldiers taking a selfie amidst the ruins of Gaza as though taking part in genocidal sadistic destruction is female empowerment.

🌍 Opportunity Alert

📢 Calling all senior and junior researchers abroad:
Apply for our Visiting Fellowships for Fall 2024 to collaborate with our network for 2-3 months!

We look forward to hearing from you by 31.3.
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