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, […]

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 […]

Dr. Thomas Dörfler, social geographer at the University of Jena, is engaged in interdisciplinary research on social space, urban-rural differences and methodologies. Projects on atmospheres, (rural) gentrification and socio-spatial milieus; interim professor at Heidelberg University (2021–22) and RUB Bochum (2014–16). Prof. Dr. Eberhard Rothfuß has the Chair of Social and Population Geography at the University […]