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West African Migrants in Urban Spaces: Dakar, Tangier, and Barcelona
This project analyzes the presence and impacts of West African migrants in urban spaces in North Africa and Southern Europe: how the sociopolitical contexts they enter shape their lives and livelihoods and, in turn, how they challenge and alter those contexts, raising questions about rights, membership, and lived diversity.
Publication
Refractions of the National, the Popular and the Global in African Cities
Bekker, Simon, Sylvia Croese and Edgar Pieterse. (Eds.). 2021. Refractions of the National, the Popular and the Global in African Cities. Af...
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Cities of Power. The Urban, the National, the Popular, the Global
Therborn, Göran. 2017. Cities of Power. The Urban, the National, the Popular, the Global. London & New York: Verso. https://www.versobooks.c...
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Ubuntu commercial nests in African indigenous markets in Nairobi: alternative business model for an emerging ‘African metropolis’
This research proposes that there is an ‘African metropolis’ that has been struggling for space and ascendancy in the City of Nairobi.
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Lonely Death: An Ecology of Living and Dying in Post-Miracle Japan
Stories of lonely death (kodokushi) are commonplace in what is considered an era of increasing isolation and social disconnectedness in post-Bubble Japan.
