Nikki Jones is Professor and H. Michael and Jeanne Williams Department Chair of African American Studies department at UC-Berkeley. She is the author of Between Good and Ghetto: African American Girls and Inner-City Violence (2010) and The Chosen Ones: Black Men and the Politics of Redemption (June 2018), which received the Michael J. Hindelang Outstanding Book Award from […]

To start urban studies in African contexts, some alternative grounds for thinking are needed. This talk activates the potential for generating new concepts from the complexity and diversity of urban life, developed in Comparative Urbanism. The shape of engagements with urbanisation processes across the African continent has largely been set by formulations which, while productive, […]

Christian Schmid is a sociologist, geographer and urban researcher. He is Professor at the Department of Architecture, ETH Zürich. His scientific work focuses on planetary urbanization, comparative urban analysis, and theories of urbanization and of space. He is a founding member of the International Network for Urban Research and Action (INURA) and has written an […]

This keynote is part of the online lecture series SPACETIME MATTERS 2.