Beyond surveillance and control: how are data and AI mobilized as infrastructures of resistance? This paper shifts attention from data and AI as instruments of authoritarian power to their potential as infrastructures of resistance and political organizing. doi.org/10.1080/0272...

Data, AI, and infrastructures of resistance under authoritarianism

Existing studies across Geography and related fields have yet to develop a sustained account of how new and emergent digital technologies reconfigure popular resistance and dissent under authoritar...

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Kenyans online are debating the hostility faced by former Starehe MP Jaguar after he was booed off stage with “Ruto Must Go” and “Wantam” chants after trying to promote the UDA party at the Mataha Festival in Thika, forcing him to leave the stage

Beyond surveillance and control: how are data and AI mobilized as infrastructures of resistance? This paper shifts attention from data and AI as instruments of authoritarian power to their potential as infrastructures of resistance and political organizing. doi.org/10.1080/0272...

Data, AI, and infrastructures of resistance under authoritarianism

Existing studies across Geography and related fields have yet to develop a sustained account of how new and emergent digital technologies reconfigure popular resistance and dissent under authoritar...

doi.org

New Special Issue with the free-to-read editorial 'Under construction – towards critical perspectives on infrastructuring and infrastructured labour in Africa', guest edited by Theo Aalders, Prince Guma, Evelyne Owino & Dr Gideon Tups. doi.org/10.1080/2162...

The fourth talk in the Urban Multiplicities Seminar Series will be delivered by @princeguma.bsky.social (@campolis.bsky.social) in collaboration with @infrastructuralgeo.bsky.social Tuesday 10th March, 16:30–18:00, Small Lecture Theatre. All welcome!

Announcing the Urban Multiplicities Seminar Series, featuring six brilliant speakers @rikjaz.bsky.social @ayonadatta.bsky.social Charlotte Lemanski @princeguma.bsky.social @maanbarua.bsky.social @profgillian.bsky.social Location: Small Lecture Theatre @camunigeography.bsky.social

From the late 1950s a new generation of African writers challenged colonial systems and used their work to imagine a new world. theconversation.com/ngugi-wa-thi... #ArtsCultureAndSociety

Ngũgi wa Thiong’o and the African literary revolution

From the late 1950s a new generation of African writers challenged colonial systems and used their work to imagine a new world.

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New publication: Valentine Opanga @zefbonn.bsky.social & Prince Guma @cam.ac.uk show how “greening” in informal settlements in Nairobi isn’t always green—it's often tied to power, displacement, and deepening inequality. More: crc-trr228.de/new-study-re...

New Study Reveals How Urban Greening Fuels Displacement and Inequality in Nairobi’s Informal Settlements - Collaborative Research Center TRR 228

In this study, Valentine Opanga (associate researcher Project C03 "Green Futures") and Prince Guma (Cambridge University) analyse how struggles over green and

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Call for Papers 📢 Excited to announce our panel at the @pollenetwork.bsky.social Conference (Barcelona, June 29 - July 3, 2026): "Cities, Urban Metabolism and the Polycrisis." 🏙️ If you work on urban metabolism or critical studies of cities & infrastructure, we want your contribution! 🧵👇

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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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...

tandfonline.com

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...

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...

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

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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📖 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

📣 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. uclpress.co.uk/book/informa...

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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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...

tandfonline.com

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 · last yr.

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

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 · last yr.

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

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 · last yr.

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...

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 · last yr.

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...

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.

Prince Guma and Joel Ongwech explore the road to Uganda’s future. Limn 11 - The Obsolescence Issue limn.press/article/expr... @princeguma.bsky.social

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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The auteurist state amid unfolding digital futures journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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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… onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...