Panel 140: Navigating Urban Space (Henrik Vigh / Mats Utas)
Panel Organisers: Henrik Vigh / Mats Utas
How do people live and survive in processes of intense African urbanization? The idea of this panel is to look at the tactics and strategies that people apply to get by and build lives in African urban spaces. The panel is multidisciplinary and intended to open up for broad discussions of the field of study.
Accepted Abstracts
Remaking urbanization in a new global
urban south
Health
in Contemporary Urban South Africa: Coping strategies and struggles for
low-income households
The View From Here: Male Youth and Urban Futures in
the Mano River Region
Outsourcing urban livelihoods? Evidence from a city in crisis:
Harare, Zimbabwe in the 2000s
Debby.potts@kcl.ac.uk
Navigating
Congolese Transnational Space: The Kinshasa-Brussels Connection
Negotiating rights to the city: the
development of neighbourhoods in peri-urban Niamey, Niger
Living for the City
Mobile Life Making in Korhogo, Cote d'Ivoire
Playing pool in the African
bush. Understanding semi-urban culture on lake Victoria's shores
The Minibus as a Mode and Medium in Urban Malawi
How to Survive in an African City? A Migrant in the Face of Urbanization Processes in the South Sudanese Juba.
Partial Visibility: House Construction as Inversed Governmentality in
Peri-Urban Areas of Maputo, Mozambique
Bizness and 'Blood Brothers': Social Networks, Quartiers, and the Survival Tactics of Urban Warriors in Abidjan
The
Wrong Clothes: Reinterpreting Spaces in a Nigerian City
Malawian Migrant
Identity in Colonial Harare c.1945-1965
