Prince Guma

The fourth talk in the Urban Multiplicities Seminar Series will be delivered by @princeguma.bsky.social (@campolis.bsky.social) in collaboration with @infrastructuralgeo.bsky.social

Tuesday 10th March, 16:30–18:00, Small Lecture Theatre. All welcome!

Announcing the Urban Multiplicities Seminar Series, featuring six brilliant speakers
@rikjaz.bsky.social
@ayonadatta.bsky.social
Charlotte Lemanski
@princeguma.bsky.social
@maanbarua.bsky.social
@profgillian.bsky.social

Location: Small Lecture Theatre @camunigeography.bsky.social

Ngũgi wa Thiong’o and the African literary revolution From the late 1950s a new generation of African writers challenged colonial systems and used their work to imagine a new world.

From the late 1950s a new generation of African writers challenged colonial systems and used their work to imagine a new world.

theconversation.com/ngugi-wa-thi...

#ArtsCultureAndSociety

New Study Reveals How Urban Greening Fuels Displacement and Inequality in Nairobi’s Informal Settlements - Collaborative Research Center TRR 228 In this study, Valentine Opanga (associate researcher Project C03 "Green Futures") and Prince Guma (Cambridge University) analyse how struggles over green and

New publication:

Valentine Opanga @zefbonn.bsky.social & Prince Guma @cam.ac.uk show how “greening” in informal settlements in Nairobi isn’t always green—it's often tied to power, displacement, and deepening inequality.

More: crc-trr228.de/new-study-re...

Call for Papers 📢

Excited to announce our panel at the @pollenetwork.bsky.social Conference (Barcelona, June 29 - July 3, 2026): "Cities, Urban Metabolism and the Polycrisis." 🏙️

If you work on urban metabolism or critical studies of cities & infrastructure, we want your contribution!

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Where is the African urbanist? Decentering and pluralizing global urban thought Urban theory and geographic thought are, by nature, incomplete and continually evolving, yet they remain heavily shaped by those who occupy, speak from, and reinforce the center. While past efforts...

X/ “Where Is the African Urbanist” is published (though still behind a paywall).
I argue for the need to decenter and pluralize global urban thought
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

13/ No easy answers, of course. But maybe that’s the point: to keep questioning. keep contesting. keep building more inclusive futures in academia

12/ My call is simple: break down the silos and gatekeeping. Make space for genuinely new and diverse voices to shape global urban thought

11/ But yet again. Academic fields are incomplete, always in flux. Hence the need to revisit questions about authority (trust), knowledge (value), and how we might decenter (ourselves)

Where is the African urbanist? Decentering and pluralizing global urban thought Urban theory and geographic thought are, by nature, incomplete and continually evolving, yet they remain heavily shaped by those who occupy, speak from, and reinforce the center. While past efforts...

X/ “Where Is the African Urbanist” is published (though still behind a paywall).
I argue for the need to decenter and pluralize global urban thought
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Everyday infrastructures enable, mediate, and shape the architecture of urban living, sustaining routines of dwelling, inhabitation, and survival and forming the norm in daily rhythms for majority populations beyond linear temporalities of urban life.

📖 www.ijurr.org/article/ever...

The stigmas faced by labour migrants in Indian cities gained global attention during the Covid-19 response. This paper shows how such stigmas are long-standing, reinforced and represented through the very urban infrastructures migrants help build

📖 www.ijurr.org/article/infr...

My paper, ‘Everyday Infrastructures of Urban Life’, now published in this latest issue of IJURR: www.ijurr.org/issue/vol-49...

Transforming the smart city ideal from the margins: everyday regimes of labour and governance This paper explores the interface between global circulations and local articulations of smart city plans and technological ideals in emerging urban contexts. Drawing illustrative cases from Nairob...

New paper out in our special issue — ‘Africa Under Construction: Critical Perspectives on Infrastructure and Labour’!

I explore how informal work and governance shape Africa’s smart urban futures.

#SmartCities #UrbanAfrica #Labour #Infrastructure

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Blick von unten auf das Heidelberger Schloss vor grünem Wald

📖 New Chapter:

Transient_Spaces is now based at the Department of Geography @uniheidelberg.bsky.social. We continue to explore questions of spatial transitions, mobilities and change. Stay tuned for our upcoming projects, talks and publications!

#HumanGeography #DigitalGeography

Informational Peripheries Urbanisation and urban life in a digital age needs to be examined through a lens of information – encompassing both its politics and its geographies. The periphery in an information age is located sim...

📣 New book cover!!!!

INFORMATIONAL PERIPHERIES: RETHINKING THE URBAN IN A DIGITAL AGE

Free OA with a fantastic lineup of authors.

It's been a pleasure working with @fennaimara.bsky.social

Shoutout to @uclpress.bsky.social for being so supportive and organised.

uclpress.co.uk/book/informa...

Transforming the smart city ideal from the margins: everyday regimes of labour and governance This paper explores the interface between global circulations and local articulations of smart city plans and technological ideals in emerging urban contexts. Drawing illustrative cases from Nairob...

New paper out in our special issue — ‘Africa Under Construction: Critical Perspectives on Infrastructure and Labour’!

I explore how informal work and governance shape Africa’s smart urban futures.

#SmartCities #UrbanAfrica #Labour #Infrastructure

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Very honoured to co-author first article 'State as Auteur' in @dialoguesdigsoc.bsky.social
Thanks @robkitchin.bsky.social for invitation & commentators @jpaddie.bsky.social @xazaaradjame.bsky.social @princeguma.bsky.social @andretwp.bsky.social Jack Odeo, Nancy Odendaal.
with @fennaimara.bsky.social

I’m sorry but if your students use AI to write papers and you use AI to grade them zero school is happening. You are running together on a hamster wheel

It was a great pleasure to discuss Armelle Choplin’s Concrete City: Material Flows and Urbanization in West Africa on the @urbanpolitical.bsky.social with Wangui Kimari and Alice Hertzog, warmly hosted by @nitin-bathla.bsky.social!

Listen to our latest podcast on the recent important book of Armelle Choplin, Concrete City. With @wanguikimani.bsky.social @princeguma.bsky.social and #alicehertzog

Wangui Kimari, @princeguma.bsky.social and Alice Hertzog are reviewing Armelle Choplin’s book Concrete City. This episode is hosted by Nitin Bathla.
They discuss the paradox of concrete, the idea behind green cement, the meaning of concrete for West African cities and much more.

Prince Guma and Joel Ongwech explore the road to Uganda’s future. Limn 11 - The Obsolescence Issue

limn.press/article/expr...

@princeguma.bsky.social

A century of propaganda studies: from pen and sword to surveillant smartphone Published in Critical Studies in Media Communication (Ahead of Print, 2025)

I'm excited to share the new forum I've co-edited with @marcowenjones.bsky.social for CSMC, here is our introduction: 'A century of propaganda studies: from pen and sword to surveillant smartphone' -check out the fascinating open access essays by our contributors! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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The auteurist state amid unfolding digital futures

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Great! Let me know your thoughts when you get a chance

Nice to see that my paper on ‘everyday infrastructures of urban life’ is now in print at @IJURResearch.

I reiterate the need to reorient the foundational parameters of infrastructure…

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...