Tom Goodfellow
@GoodfellowTom
Professor and Director of Research @USPSheffield. Cities, Africa, politics, development, infrastructure, conflict.
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https://sheffield.academia.edu/TomGoodfellow 05-06-2011 20:26:14
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#CallforPapers : Urban Transport as a Social Construct.
We are particularly interested in papers offering conceptual depth and novelty that can advance theoretical understandings of #UrbanTransport .
Further details here: urbanstudiesonline.com/callforpapers
Yingling Fan Astrid Wood (she/her) Evelyn Blumenberg
Amazing turnout of development studies' great & good to celebrate Melissa Leach's Melissa Leach directorship at Institute of Development Studies & her 34 years of world class scholarship and research leadership. It truly was the end of an epoch (™️Ian Scoones)! A few takeaways from the conversations:
the urban fabric is now being unstitched by a 'turbocharged sanitation of the city centre'. Biruk Terrefe on the Economist.
economist.com/middle-east-an…
Last day to apply. Please note - we will only consider applicants working on digital platforms in Africa, and preference will be given to Africa-based scholars
African Centre for Cities
Thank you so much Claire Mercer for this lovely review of my book in the Journal of Modern African Studies! Journal of Modern African Studies
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#CallForPapers : #UrbanTransport as a Social Construct. This theme seeks to foster a deeper, more nuanced understanding of #UrbanTransport ation. Visit our website for submission guidelines and a list of suggested topics: urbanstudiesonline.com/callforpapers
Yingling Fan Astrid Wood (she/her) Evelyn Blumenberg
Urban Studies is delighted to announce our 2024 Annual Lecture – 'Urban metabolism redux' presented by Matthew Gandy Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) on 29 August at 4.50pm (BST). More details coming soon. #RGSIBG2024
Urban resilience in African cities day 2. Listening to voices with experiential knowledge about Addis Lagos and Makindye Sabagabo. Urban Action Lab Paul Mukwaya taibat lawanson EZANA AMDEWORK
It’s out. A couple of years in the making, but a pleasure to work with Pablo Fuentenebro Rachel Bok Emily Rosenman on the geographies of #superphilanthropy 💰 and the nuance of the philanthropic complex 🎁 - in Dialogues in Human Geography
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20…
We are happy to support applicants wishing to apply for Urban Studies Foundation International Fellowships grant funding! 📢 Deadline: 05/07/24. Intended to support urban scholars from the Global South with fully-funded 3-9 month research visits. Jon Silver ow.ly/YxES50R8oor
Icebergs, Zombies, and the Ultra Thin - Matthew Soules' public lecture on Tues 18 June is the official launch of our Urban Riches research theme at the The Urban Institute
Free registration is available via this link:
tinyurl.com/2dwzpntv
#ACRCimplementationphase
Lively group discussions with the SMT and the Kampala research team on the potentialities of proposed projects to trigger transformative urban reform.
Jayam Ravi Tom Goodfellow Hakimu Sseviiri SSA Uganda African Cities Research Consortium Shuaib Lwasa
We are very excited to introduce 2024's 11 new writing up grant holders #IJURRFoundation , #writingupgrants , #2024awardees . Full info on the awardees can be found here: tinyurl.com/2pnunnvx
#ACRCimplementationphase
Emphasis on implementation from the ground up as a small step towards decoloniality.
Paul Mukwaya Shuaib Lwasa judith mbabazi Hakimu Sseviiri ACTOGETHER UGANDA Tom Goodfellow
Delighted to share a new publication in Urban Geography from our 2021 project funded by the German Research Foundation Cultural and Social Geography, HU Berlin Jeffrey Paller African Cities Research Consortium Prof. Loretta Lees 🇬🇧🇺🇸🇮🇪 Hyun Bang Shin 신현방 tandfonline.com/eprint/REB3B9G…