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The January 2025 issue (Volume 62, Issue 1) of #UrbanStudies is out now featuring articles and reviews by Sylvia Croese, León Felipe Téllez, Gordon Tan, Rana Khazbak, Phil Hubbard, Patrick Brandful Cobbinah, Andrew Littlejohn and many more journals.sagepub.com/toc/usja/62/1

Reframing urban development politics: Transcalarity in sovereign, developmental and private circuits by Jennifer Robinson, Philip Harrison, Sylvia Croese et al ow.ly/LppK50UzvNR #OpenAccess #DevelopmentalInvestment #UrbanPolitics

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Three of the four of us on the new book - Cities Rethought -- are talking about it in person in Bangalore but also online on this Friday evening IST. Do join if of interest! Registration, links and info in the post below.

📢 Applications are open for Postdoctoral Fellowships for Black Scholars at Toronto Metropolitan University ✅ Available fellowships: up to four (4) beginning September 1, 2025 at $70,000/year plus benefits Deadline to apply: Mar. 31, 2025 🔗 Details and eligibility criteria: torontomu.ca/graduate/postd…

Bonn SDG Fellowships for research projects related to SDGs for periods of 3–10 months. Monthly scholarship of €3,000 + family allowance and research grants Details at uni-bonn.de/en/research-an… Apply by 31st March 2025

Sylvia Croese reviewed "Order and Disorder in Urban Space and Form"(Paul Jenkins & Harry Smith) published by Routledge Geog&Built Read the review in urbandesigninternationaljournal Palgrave Journals: link.springer.com/article/10.105…

Honoured to have been featured on this list, reinforcing my commitment to researching, thinking and advancing local action by, with and alongside local governments in Africa. lgiu.org/publication/lg…

Do you know any PhD students pursuing projects on authoritarianism and protest in Asia or Africa? If so, please let them know of this doctoral course 🙏🙏 Happening in Pretoria in May. Application deadline 1 March.

'We seek an emerging Black Studies and/or African Studies scholar from any discipline whose research and teaching interests address, in humanities’ perspective, the intersection of blackness/nativeness, inequality, distributive (in)justice, and colonial/postcolonial histories' -

Excited to embark on this film watching challenge on Saturday: Thirty films, no rewatches, from twenty-nine different socialist countries and Japan (to conform to the rules of the Letterboxd challenge), all watched in the month of March. letterboxd.com/exilemagic/lis…

Centre for the Study of African Economies at University of Oxford will automatically consider all applicants from Africa for full funding for the MPhil in Economics - we have new scholarships for eligible students. Apply asap: deadline 4th March (extended deadline): see below

Episode 2 of #UrbanRadar is out, on Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts: lnkd.in/g-cxJ-B4 In this month's feature Tom Goodfellow and Prof Beth Perry turn their attention to the Manchester’s model of property-led development

2025 CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: USF International Fellowships grant funding! 📢 Deadline: 16/07/25. This fully-funded program offers 3-9 month sabbatical research visits for urban scholars from the Global South. Read more & apply here: ow.ly/AYfn50R8oou

🎧Listen to @iliasalami on The Dig in a 2-part series on global geopolitics and geoeconomic conjecture. Part 1: thedigradio.com/podcast/global… Part 2: thedigradio.com/podcast/new-wo… Cambridge Centre of Development Studies

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Call for workshop papers: Apologies for cross-posting Online workshop, 7 October 2025 Deadline for submission, 23 May 2025 Downloadable flyer attached Southern urban theory is playing a critical role in challenging epistemic hierarchies and systems of domination that have

African Young Women Leaders (AfYWL) Fellowship Programme 2025 Deadline: June 1 undp.apply.cappats.com/jobs/view/41

Explore articles by and remembering #Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, a giant of African literary production, leading intellectual on African languages and decolonisation, and influential dissident. Free access until 31 December 2025. Link: spr.ly/60184GqQE