Cover of the forthcoming book! Digital Solidarity Economy in Latin America, edited by me, Alessio Bertolini and María Belén Albornoz, by Bristol University Press.
Andrea Pollio
@andretwp.bsky.social
Whatever works in life and pronouns. Author of Silicon Elsewhere (University of California Press, 2026). https://www.ucpress.edu/books/silicon-elsewhere/paper
Interesting piece. Left me with a puzzle. When scholars (or anyone for that matter) are accused of not answering the "what is to be done" question, is it because they actually haven't answered or because critics don't like the answer?
The Syllabus@the-syllabus.bsky.social · 5mo agoThe “decolonial turn" arrived in the 1990s as an alleged alternative to Eurocentric Marxism and poststructuralism. Yet as our essay of the week suggests, its emancipatory promise remains compromised by its detachment from material struggle. By Federico Perelmuter in @aeon.co buff.ly/A2Z2QDL
Can't wait to read!
Hanno Brankamp 🍉☀️@hannobrankamp.bsky.social · 6mo ago🚨It’s publication day!🚨 My book OCCUPIED REFUGE is officially OUT today with Duke University Press. Available to order from all book shops! Upcoming book launches in Glasgow, Oxford, Nairobi and—perhaps—a city near you! Read the introduction for free online: www.dukeupress.edu/occupied-ref...
Matthew Wakhungu of #KDI interactive session on projects of repair and corrective approaches to unjust urban life. Participants discussed what urban peripheries they interact with in their work #UTADo2026 @acc-uct.bsky.social
Sylvia Croese’s keynote on Gradualism as it manifests in political governance and development projects across Angola. Chaired by Biruk Terrefe #UTADo2026 @acc-uct.bsky.social
#UTADo2026 writing track participants closed off the wee by discussing the peer review process: how to receive, analyse, work with and respond to reviews. They also developed the plan towards developing the papers they have been working on this week. @acc-uct.bsky.social @urbanstudiesfoundation.org
A lively discussion on Energy, Finance and Technology in African Cities between Biniyam Bekele of FCDO and Henol Assefa of Precise Ethiopia moderat d by Liza Rose Cirolia #UTADo2026 @acc-uct.bsky.social
Honored to have an excerpt of my book featured in @restofworld.org
Rest of World@restofworld.org · 6mo agoIn the new book “Silicon Elsewhere: Nairobi, Global China, and the Promise of Techno-Capital,” writer @andretwp.bsky.social charts the growth of Chinese investment and companies in the Kenyan capital. Read an excerpt about the spread of cheap Chinese phones: restofworld.org/2026/china-k...
Wonderful to be featured in the best newsletter ever! Thank you @the-syllabus.bsky.social
The Syllabus@the-syllabus.bsky.social · 6mo agoNairobi has become a test-site for China’s techno-capital. Our book of the week maps how the city's new digital ecosystem challenges both the West-centric script of technological “catch-up” and alarmist tales of neocolonialism. By @andretwp.bsky.social on @ucpress.bsky.social buff.ly/Jo6qN6X
Join us !
Critical Legal Geographies Network@legalgeolsa.bsky.social · 8mo ago🌍 Applications are open for our Masters in Urban and Political Geography in #Turin. Scholarships are also available. Read more in the file below and here www.geography.unito.it/do/home.pl @andretwp.bsky.social @maraferreri.bsky.social @michelelancione.bsky.social
Awesome piece hot off the press!
Marc Steinberg@msteinbrg.bsky.social · 9mo agoSuper excited to announce a new piece out in the world: States and platform capitalisms: A conversation. This is a collaboration with some amazing thinkers and friends- led by @sayshatim.bsky.social Joe Khalil @linzhang.bsky.social & @rahmuk.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Heartfelt thanks to Yifan Cai, Gulinigaer Yishake, @sandeepmertia.bsky.social , @andretwp.bsky.social for their brilliant & generous engagements！
Awesome themed issue - on value and platform economies
Platforms & Society@platformsnsociety.bsky.social · 11mo agoA longish thread to announce that the Themed Issue "Digital Platform Economies: Value from Data?" is now fully available online "https://journals.sagepub.com/topic/collections-pns/pns-1-digital_platform_economies_value_from_data/pns
Hot off the press: Chris J Young, Daniel J Joseph and @nieborg.bsky.social trace a platform historiography of #Unity to discuss how workflows create dexterous corporate lockins in cultural production journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... enjoy!
A belated catch-up with the papers that came out this (boreal) summer: we start with @alexturvy.bsky.social with a comparative analysis of how TikTok and Instagram shape the conditions for cultural production through their platform configurations. Read more here journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
And another gem from the summer: Nicholas Proferes @kelleyhas2es.bsky.social @kthorson.bsky.social @ankolika.bsky.social Chia-Fang Chang and Ava Francesca Battocchio write about the rhetoric of localism in platform content moderation. Read more here journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
And another piece for our readers: Margherita Di Cicco & Davide Beraldo explore how sex workers engage in cross-platform promotion more than in the production of sexual content itself, arguing that precarious success on OF depends on cross-platform dependency journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Ever wondered what the geography of disruption looks like from aboard an Internet cable ship? Between sea monsters and pirates, robots and colonial magnates, we tell this story here www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @acc-uct.bsky.social
Apply for the UTA-Do 2026 workshop happening in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, from February 9-13. This time round, we have 10 full scholarships available through the Wagon2Africa project. Read more here: sites.google.com/view/uta-do/... Apply by 30 September 2025!
Calling all scholars in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Ethiopia, and other eligible countries! 🎓 The UTA-Do African Cities Summer School 2026 has 10 full scholarships available through the Wagon2Africa project. Apply! Deadline: Sept 30, 2025. @andretwp.bsky.social sites.google.com/view/uta-do/...
I'm officially a Dr. now!! Passed my PhD defence cum laude with my thesis on gender, caste & street vending in Mumbai. Thanks to my examiners Tatiana Thieme @snehakrishnan.bsky.social @andretwp.bsky.social Giulia Torino Francesco Chiodelli + my amazing supervisor @michelelancione.bsky.social
Who's the new Dr in town!? Our wonderful @saanchi.bsky.social passed her PhD examination with flying colours (& laude!) with a poignant work on gender, caste & street vending in Mumbai 👍 amazing rev @snehakrishnan.bsky.social & Tatiana Thieme + panel @andretwp.bsky.social, G Torino, F Chiodelli
It was such a wonderful dissertation to read and viva to attend
michelelancione@michelelancione.bsky.social · last yr.Who's the new Dr in town!? Our wonderful @saanchi.bsky.social passed her PhD examination with flying colours (& laude!) with a poignant work on gender, caste & street vending in Mumbai 👍 amazing rev @snehakrishnan.bsky.social & Tatiana Thieme + panel @andretwp.bsky.social, G Torino, F Chiodelli
it's here! Money, Value, and the State: Sovereignty and Citizenship in East Africa my book has arrived. a brief 🧵
Black, magenta and an edge data center on the cover of my book about Nairobi, smartphones, platforms, standards, venture capital and digital China. Out in the boreal fall this year 🪩 with U California Press (and OA)
#Somalia After 1 week of clashes , Al-Shabaab takes control of Ceel Hareeri. Many local militias are seen dead in the published photos by Al-Shabaab.
Hasret Kargın@hasretkargin.bsky.social · last yr.#Somalia Local sources reportedly, Al-Shabaab has launched an attack on Ceel Hareeri and clashes are ongoing. Additionally, there are claims, two militia groups affiliated with the Somali National Army clashed yesterday in Moqokori.
Next week: ASCA Global Africa book salon with @tommytse.bsky.social @mariarepnikova.bsky.social Carywn Morris and me uva-live.zoom.us/j/85202106220 join online or in Amsterdam
