Colonial urbanism cast African neighborhoods as chaotic, unplanned, and undesirable. In postcolonial Dar es Salaam, that legacy still shapes who builds, who belongs, and what the middle class fears the city becoming. africasacountry.com/2025/09/who-...

'New urban frontiers' This essay by me and @clairemercer.bsky.social is the introduction to a forthcoming @urbangeography.bsky.social special issue We argue that the frontier is a powerful conceptual lens that can generate new insights into the urban www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

In this episode, you will hear: Claire Mercer Roger Keil Mariam Genes and @nitin-bathla.bsky.social

📣 USF International Fellowships 2025 - apply now! This fully-funded program offers 3-9 month sabbatical research visits for urban scholars from the Global South. Read more & apply here: urbanstudiesfoundation.org/funding/inte... Deadline 16th July 2025

Claire Mercer, author of THE SUBURBAN FRONTIER, writes about how the suburb and the middle classes construct each other through her research in Tanzania: www.ucpress.edu/blog-posts/h... #AAG2025

Looking forward to this book forum organized by the Duke Africa Initiative on 26 Mar with @cgastrow.bsky.social and @shakirahh.bsky.social

Honored and thankful to be awarded the 2025 ISA Peace section Best Global South Scholar Book Award. @isanet.bsky.social www.isanet.org/News/ID/6582...

Join us for the Sylvia Chant lecture 2025 - Prof Jo Sharp will reflect on empowerment and international development over 25 years drawing on her research in Egypt and Tanzania. LSE Monday 31st March 6.30pm Details 👇🏻 @profjosharp.bsky.social

Come and join us at LSE! Job ad for Asst Prof in Urban Environmental Geography jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

www.lse.ac.uk/geography-an... See below for our line-up of speakers in the Human Geography Seminar Series Winter Term 2025

We are now accepting applications for the next round of USF Seminar Series Awards funding! 🏙️ The deadline is 17th February 2025, and you can read more about the call on our website. 📢 Please share 📢 www.urbanstudiesfoundation.org/funding/semi...

Two permanent Assistant Professorships in Human Geography at Durham! With expertise in geographies of nature, climate change, & just and sustainable futures... durham.taleo.net/careersectio...

Milton Santos: the Dar es-Salaam years and their impact on one of the most important spatial thinkers. Some histories were yet to be written. Superb stuff in @antipodeonline.bsky.social #geosky #africapolsky #socialtheory onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

My book is out! The Aesthetics of Belonging explores how urban aesthetics shape experiences and practices of political belonging: uncpress.org/book/9781469...

www.ucpress.edu/books/the-su... New book published (and free to download) with #ucpress ‘The suburban frontier: middle class construction in Tanzania’

The suburban frontier: middle class construction in Dar es Salaam Hybrid book launch, 26th Nov, 18.30 Details here 👇🏻

I mad a starter pack for African Studies. Let me know who else should be in here!

We are launching the multi-authored extravaganza that is 'Living the Urban Periphery' at a hybrid event in Sheffield on 29 November, 2.30-4pm. Come and join in person or online - details below! www.sheffield.ac.uk/urban-instit...

The suburban frontier: middle class construction in Dar es Salaam Hybrid book launch, 26th Nov, 18.30 Details here 👇🏻