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Great keynote speech on urban policing, spectral violence & transnational solidarity by ⁦Daniel Agbiboa⁩ ⁦ISA-RC21⁩ conference.#Blacklivesmatter #RC21Santiago

An amazing tour de force by Daniel Agbiboa at IJURR.org lecture at ISA-RC21 reflecting about police violence across continents, the power of the spectacular and the necessity to unsettle and disrupt the spectral forces that sustain it…

What would make researcher Daniel Agbiboa take on the role of mini bus driver in Lagos, one of the most stigmatised jobs in Nigeria? Firsthand ethnographic research; learning by doing. Read more in our @OUPEconomics Book Series: Meet the author feature ⬇️ buff.ly/4fbmqt7

D. Wylie's wonderful review of THEY EAT OUR SWEAT: "Exceptionally inventive, even daring, [this book] may succeed in tempering the hubris of urban policymakers—like those in the World Bank—who presume to know what is best for the poor, based on barely relevant Western paradigms."

#CityBookshelf: They Eat Our Sweat (Oxford University Press) by center faculty affiliate Daniel Agbiboa of Harvard University Faculty of Arts and Sciences provides a new perspective on corruption, transportation, politics, and governance in urban Africa. Learn more about Agbiboa’s research:

You can now watch the full RC21 2024 IJURR Lecture by Daniel Agbiboa, ‘Government Magic: On Urban Policing, Spectral Violence, and Transnational Solidarity’ on the IJURR website: ijurr.org/lecture-series/

Check out my latest article PS: Political Science & Politics on flooding and the climate of suffering in Nigeria: cambridge.org/core/journals/…

#FirstView from PS: Political Science & Politics - Deep Waters: Flooding and the Climate of Suffering in Nigeria - cup.org/3AEnGp1 - Daniel Agbiboa

What would make researcher Daniel Agbiboa take on the role of minibus driver in Lagos, one of the most stigmatised jobs in Nigeria? Firsthand ethnographic research; learning by doing. Read more in our @OUPEconomics Book Series: Meet the author feature ⬇️ buff.ly/4fbmqt7

📸 Our Humanity's Urban Future program meeting is taking place this week in Vienna, Austria! The meeting has featured exciting discussions, including a reflection on how we can understand urban future-making and green industrial transitions in the Global South.

Looking forward to my talk, "Transport Aliveness and Social Imagination in an African Megacity," at Oxford's Transport Studies Unit (TSU). Details here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/transport-al…

We, at TSU Oxford, are excited to host Daniel Agbiboa for our first seminar of the Public Seminar Series 2025 on 23rd January, 14:00-15:30 GMT. The seminar will be chaired by Valentina Montoya Robledo (Invisible Commutes). Please join in! eventbrite.co.uk/e/transport-al…

The 2022 flood in Nigeria was devastating—killing >600, displacing >1.4M people. New research by Daniel Agbiboa reveals the human suffering in the wake of the flood and ties it to the logic of disaster as political instrument in Nigeria. loom.ly/vRYp9Kw 📸: NEMA via AP

Looking forward to discussing my paper “Illegal, yet Licit: Popular Transport Work in Lagos” at the Ethnographies of Work in Africa workshop, hosted by Columbia University’s Institute for African Studies. 👉🏿 Workshop details here: ias.columbia.edu/events/ethnogr…

So honored to receive news from the Provost’s office that I have been appointed the John and Ruth Hazel Associate Professor of the Social Sciences. The Hazel chair is one of a small number of endowed professorships for TT faculty at Harvard 🙏🏿

4/18: Does Africa Need Elite Cities? Eko Atlantic, Climate Urbanism, and the Surrounds of Lagos. A lecture by Assoc. Prof. of African and African American Studies at Harvard University, Daniel Agbiboa. In-person + Virtual: aap.cornell.edu/news-events/le… Daniel E. Agbiboa is an Associate

More in our May issue: The Africanist - Podcast on youth activism and democracy in Senegal, Ursula Read and Lily Kpobi on pluralistic mental health care in Ghana, and Daniel Agbiboa on surviving state neglect in Nigeria, plus a review of a biography of Frantz Fanon. online.ucpress.edu/currenthistory…

In our latest issue, Daniel Agbiboa surveys the manifold consequences of state neglect in Nigeria, where people are calling for accountability and reform rather than more praise for their resilience. online.ucpress.edu/currenthistory…

My Current History essay, "May Nigeria Not Happen to You," is now freely accessible for a limited time—courtesy of UC Press! online.ucpress.edu/currenthistory…

HFG #GranteeSpotlight: Daniel Agbiboa (2017 HFG Distinguished Scholar) is now a trustee at the IJURR.org, which supports research with an emphasis on social justice & critical approaches. Learn more: ijurr.org/ijurr-foundati… #HFGGrantee #UrbanStudies #IJURR #SocialJustice