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Almost a year has passed with one massacre televised after another. Time to stop “analyzing” and start seeing: Israel is drunk on violence, fueled by western weapons, engaged in an endless quest for domination through destruction, shaping a bleaker future for us all every day.

Do you work on platforms? Twomore days to apply! Join our writing workshop in Cape Town next year andrea pollio M. Amir

We'll hope to see you at the seminar this term. Wednesdays 4pm at the African Studies Centre. Most events are hybrid. Full details & webinar registration here: talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/series/i…

Very happy to share this - with @nielsvdoorn Julie Yujie Chen Cheryll Soriano and Rafael Grohmann we've been working on a set of inaugural essays for Platforms & Society and these two are 🔥 for platform research

For those of us who grew up in and around South Lebanon, today's footage of deliberate destruction, one town after another, is unbearable. I will not share any image. It is just too painful to see, think, or consider. The wounds are so deep, it will take generations to recover.

Master in Sustainable Urban Practice 2024. Exceptional group and teaching team - starting day 2 of the Financing Cities module African Centre for Cities Astrid R.N. Haas

CLAIMS to Energy Citizenship team in action - Nobu and Razaz are making key contributions to critical debates on climate policy in Africa African Centre for Cities Karen Waltorp

NEW PAPER | A recently published paper challenges current scholarship on the coloniality of #fintech in Africa. The authors discuss various ways in which #fintech creates new forms of value in the context of the continent's urbanization. Read it here: africancentreforcities.net/fintech-fronti…

Additionally, IJURR Editor Mona Fawaz gave an RC21 keynote session on ‘Inhabiting Beirut’s Ruins’, which is also available to view in full on our website: ijurr.org/lecture-series/

This event is happening today - please join :)

pls share: funded by EPA: Economy & Space, up to 8 travel + accommodation stipends available to enable doctoral & postdoctoral researchers to participate in the "ideational geographies" workshop at UBC, June 11-13, 2025. Application details: blogs.ubc.ca/peck/research/…

Situation in the State of Palestine: #ICC Pre-Trial Chamber I rejects the State of Israel’s challenges to jurisdiction and issues warrants of arrest for Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant. Learn more ⤵️ icc-cpi.int/news/situation…

CALL FOR PAPERS | ACC scholars are organising different panels for #EuropeanConferenceofAfricanStudies (ECAS) in June 2025 in Prague. The panels are under the Urban Stream under conference theme "AFRICAN, AFROPOLITAN, AND AFROPEAN BELONGINGS". 📷Submission date: 15 December 2024

#UrbanStudies encourages submissions of more critical debate and reflection in the journal to address some of the ‘bigger questions’ surrounding #cities and #UrbanDevelopment through critical argument and reflection. urbanstudiesonline.com/journal/ #CallforPapers #CriticalCommentaries

The #ECAS conference deadline has been extended to 20 December - so there is still time to submit to our panel! Please see our panel on claim-making and energy citizenship (papers welcome on related themes and contexts) Karen Waltorp

In this podcast episode, ACRC’s land and connectivity domain lead Tom Goodfellow is joined by Abdifatah Ismael Tahir from Mogadishu and Eria Serwajja and Muhamed Lunyago from Kampala for a conversation around the role of land brokers in urban land markets in African cities.

As part of our project Smartness as Wealth (where we look at Fintech in Nairobi), Andrea and I wrote a playful chapter in this wonderful book. It is free to download! Thank you Marc and Armin :) African Centre for Cities andrea pollio

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