Oluwafemi Olajide
@oluwafemiolaj10
Lecturer and researcher in Urban Planning @UnilagNigeria, with interest in livelihoods, poverty, informality, housing right, social movements and governance.
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My new article co-authored with taibat lawanson explores the contradictions of urban development in Lagos. Our key theoretical contribution challenges the often oversimplified notion of the hollowing-out of the state in the neoliberal development agenda.
InfUr: Informal Urbanism Research Hub The Paradox of Informal Urbanism - seminar series Watch here our AbdouMaliq Simone in the first of the series on 'The Urban Extensions: Volatile simultaneities of spatial production' infur.org/paradox
My Department is creating maps for #Frontex, the EU border control agency, which is involved in the violent pushbacks of refugees. I wrote Altreconomia to dissociate myself & fight this deal. Universities are complicit in bordering & racial violence: it needs to stop! Links 👇
Our lab director AbdouMaliq Simone and core team member Oluwafemi Olajide presenting @ #RC21Athens roundtable “it was never ‘normal’: the disruptive powers of urban African everyday to urban development thinking”
Oluwafemi Olajide speaking at #RC21Athens about claiming the right to the city through a discussion of social movements, contestations, and relationships in the context of Lagos.
I have the privilege of working with scholars who are going to mark #urban & #housing studies Thumbs up for the work of my postdocs Daniela Morpurgo rodrigo castriota Chiara Cacciotti Oluwafemi Olajide Ana Vilenica Dr. Dev & brother AbdouMaliq Simone at #RC21Athens Beyond Inhabitation
Happy to visit Newcastle and attend #RGS2022 Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) from tomorrow! We have an extensive presence with our Beyond Inhabitation 👇 Please come and say hi at our launch on Aug 30 @ 9am GMT, where we will discuss our lab’s mission and current work. virtual.oxfordabstracts.com/#/event/public…
An incredible research venture of fascinating conundrum from South-East connections to decenter the regular polarities of knowledge production with AbdouMaliq Simone, Ana Vilenica Rayna (they/them), Chiara Cacciotti, rodrigo castriota Daniela Morpurgo, Oluwafemi Olajide Dr. Dev Dr. Syeda Jenifa Zahan 🍉
Next week, Tuesday 20th at 4pm CET, join us for a new seminar co-organized by Camillo Boano, Francesco Chiodelli & me. We are joined by Chris Harker on "Ecologies of debt and gendered subjectivity" In-person in Turin, and online at didattica.polito.it/pls/portal30/s…
Today we are launching our Beyond Inhabitation 2023 online Seminar series! Three wonderful speakers: - 26 Jan 2023 with Tanzil Shafique - 23 Feb 2023 with Melissa García Lamarca (mel) - 16 March 2023 with Joanna Kusiak For info and registration links: beyondinhabitation.org/beyond-inhabit…
I am really glad that this is finally published. In this chapter, taibat lawanson and I reflect on actions and impact or the lack thereof when contending for the right to the city in Lagos. link.springer.com/chapter/10.100…
Dialogues in Human Geography is a brilliant journal committed to pluralistic debate, and Elia Apostolopoulou is a great and attentive editor. Thanks for the engagement on the work Patrick Brandful Cobbinah Oluwafemi Olajide Deborah Potts @WilmaNchito Gideon Abagna Azunre