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Prince Guma @princeguma.bsky.social · 1d

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....

Where is the African urbanist? Decentering and pluralizing global urban thought

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...

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Prince Guma @princeguma.bsky.social · 1d

13/ No easy answers, of course. But maybe that’s the point: to keep questioning. keep contesting. keep building more inclusive futures in academia

Prince Guma @princeguma.bsky.social · 1d

12/ My call is simple: break down the silos and gatekeeping. Make space for genuinely new and diverse voices to shape global urban thought

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Prince Guma @princeguma.bsky.social · 1d

11/ But yet again. Academic fields are incomplete, always in flux. Hence the need to revisit questions about authority (trust), knowledge (value), and how we might decenter (ourselves)

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Prince Guma @princeguma.bsky.social · 1d

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....

Where is the African urbanist? Decentering and pluralizing global urban thought

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...

www.tandfonline.com

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ijurresearch.bsky.social @ijurresearch.bsky.social · May 26

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.

📖 www.ijurr.org/article/ever...

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ijurresearch.bsky.social @ijurresearch.bsky.social · May 27

The stigmas faced by labour migrants in Indian cities gained global attention during the Covid-19 response. This paper shows how such stigmas are long-standing, reinforced and represented through the very urban infrastructures migrants help build

📖 www.ijurr.org/article/infr...

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Hadas Weiss @hadas.bsky.social · May 24

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Prince Guma @princeguma.bsky.social · May 23

My paper, ‘Everyday Infrastructures of Urban Life’, now published in this latest issue of IJURR: www.ijurr.org/issue/vol-49...

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Prince Guma @princeguma.bsky.social · Apr 22

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

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Transforming the smart city ideal from the margins: everyday regimes of labour and governance

This paper explores the interface between global circulations and local articulations of smart city plans and technological ideals in emerging urban contexts. Drawing illustrative cases from Nairob...

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Transient_Spaces & Societies (Research Group) @spacessocieties.bsky.social · May 19

📖 New Chapter:

Transient_Spaces is now based at the Department of Geography @uniheidelberg.bsky.social. We continue to explore questions of spatial transitions, mobilities and change. Stay tuned for our upcoming projects, talks and publications!

#HumanGeography #DigitalGeography

Blick von unten auf das Heidelberger Schloss vor grünem Wald

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Ayona Datta @ayonadatta.bsky.social · Apr 28

📣 New book cover!!!!

INFORMATIONAL PERIPHERIES: RETHINKING THE URBAN IN A DIGITAL AGE

Free OA with a fantastic lineup of authors.

It's been a pleasure working with @fennaimara.bsky.social

Shoutout to @uclpress.bsky.social for being so supportive and organised.

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Informational Peripheries

Urbanisation and urban life in a digital age needs to be examined through a lens of information – encompassing both its politics and its geographies. The periphery in an information age is located sim...

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Prince Guma @princeguma.bsky.social · Apr 22

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

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Transforming the smart city ideal from the margins: everyday regimes of labour and governance

This paper explores the interface between global circulations and local articulations of smart city plans and technological ideals in emerging urban contexts. Drawing illustrative cases from Nairob...

www.tandfonline.com

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Ayona Datta @ayonadatta.bsky.social · Apr 18

Very honoured to co-author first article 'State as Auteur' in @dialoguesdigsoc.bsky.social
Thanks @robkitchin.bsky.social for invitation & commentators @jpaddie.bsky.social @xazaaradjame.bsky.social @princeguma.bsky.social @andretwp.bsky.social Jack Odeo, Nancy Odendaal.
with @fennaimara.bsky.social

Dialogues on Digital Society @dialoguesdigsoc.bsky.social · Apr 17

These are followed by the first article by @ayonadatta.bsky.social and @fennaimara.bsky.social advocating for consideration of time and timing for understanding statecraft in Kenya's Silicon Savannah journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... 3/7

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · Apr 15

I’m sorry but if your students use AI to write papers and you use AI to grade them zero school is happening. You are running together on a hamster wheel

Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · Apr 15

Why even have a brain, any ideas, any ability to express them, any kind of communication with other people, any desire to solve problems or invent anything, any reason to learn, any use for your eyes or your heart, or any reason to teach or create

From NYT article about the increasing use of AI in the classroom: “Writing is one of the most challenging tasks for students, which is why it is so tempting for some to ask A.I. to do it for them. In turn, A.I. can be useful for teachers who would like to assign more writing, but are limited in their time to grade it.”

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Mia Farrow @miafarrow.bsky.social · Apr 5

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Prince Guma @princeguma.bsky.social · Apr 3

It was a great pleasure to discuss Armelle Choplin’s Concrete City: Material Flows and Urbanization in West Africa on the @urbanpolitical.bsky.social with Wangui Kimari and Alice Hertzog, warmly hosted by @nitin-bathla.bsky.social!

Urban Political Podcast @urbanpolitical.bsky.social · Mar 31

We just published our new episode 86 - Book Review: Concrete City: Material Flows and Urbanization in West Africa.🎧

Listen here or on Spotify:
urbanpolitical.online/86-book-revi...

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Nitin Bathla @nitin-bathla.bsky.social · Apr 3

Listen to our latest podcast on the recent important book of Armelle Choplin, Concrete City. With @wanguikimani.bsky.social @princeguma.bsky.social and #alicehertzog

Urban Political Podcast @urbanpolitical.bsky.social · Mar 31

We just published our new episode 86 - Book Review: Concrete City: Material Flows and Urbanization in West Africa.🎧

Listen here or on Spotify:
urbanpolitical.online/86-book-revi...

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Urban Political Podcast @urbanpolitical.bsky.social · Mar 31

Wangui Kimari, @princeguma.bsky.social and Alice Hertzog are reviewing Armelle Choplin’s book Concrete City. This episode is hosted by Nitin Bathla.
They discuss the paradox of concrete, the idea behind green cement, the meaning of concrete for West African cities and much more.

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Limn @limnpress.bsky.social · Mar 18

Prince Guma and Joel Ongwech explore the road to Uganda’s future. Limn 11 - The Obsolescence Issue

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Jeremy Hunsinger @buridan.bsky.social · Mar 13

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Dr Emma L Briant 🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸 @emmalbriant.bsky.social · Mar 8

I'm excited to share the new forum I've co-edited with @marcowenjones.bsky.social for CSMC, here is our introduction: 'A century of propaganda studies: from pen and sword to surveillant smartphone' -check out the fascinating open access essays by our contributors! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

A century of propaganda studies: from pen and sword to surveillant smartphone

Published in Critical Studies in Media Communication (Ahead of Print, 2025)

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Prince Guma @princeguma.bsky.social · Mar 5

The auteurist state amid unfolding digital futures

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Prince Guma @princeguma.bsky.social · Mar 4

Great! Let me know your thoughts when you get a chance

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Prince Guma @princeguma.bsky.social · Mar 4

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…

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