Beyond surveillance and control: how are data and AI mobilized as infrastructures of resistance? This paper shifts attention from data and AI as instruments of authoritarian power to their potential as infrastructures of resistance and political organizing. doi.org/10.1080/0272...

Kenyans online are debating the hostility faced by former Starehe MP Jaguar after he was booed off stage with “Ruto Must Go” and “Wantam” chants after trying to promote the UDA party at the Mataha Festival in Thika, forcing him to leave the stage

Beyond surveillance and control: how are data and AI mobilized as infrastructures of resistance? This paper shifts attention from data and AI as instruments of authoritarian power to their potential as infrastructures of resistance and political organizing. doi.org/10.1080/0272...

New Special Issue with the free-to-read editorial 'Under construction – towards critical perspectives on infrastructuring and infrastructured labour in Africa', guest edited by Theo Aalders, Prince Guma, Evelyne Owino & Dr Gideon Tups. doi.org/10.1080/2162...

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

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 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! 🧵👇

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....

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...

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....

📖 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

📣 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...

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

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....

The auteurist state amid unfolding digital futures journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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...

I’m teaching “Anatomy of an AI Coup” @techpolicypress.bsky.social tomorrow (I’m covering a friend’s class at USF) and @eryk.bsky.social saw it all coming an eternity ago I mean way back on February 8 Eryk: are you a witch?

📣 Pleased to announce response paper with @fennaimara.bsky.social out on @dialoguesdigsoc.bsky.social responding to brilliant commentaries by @andretwp.bsky.social Jack Odeo @jpaddie.bsky.social @xazaaradjame.bsky.social @princeguma.bsky.social Nancy Odendaal. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Last chance to submit your abstracts for prioritised asssessment for The Urbanisation of #Conflict and Conflict Urbanisation #CallforPapers Visit our website for details: https://buff.ly/4gw8zgb @deensharp.bsky.social

📣 CfP ALGORITHMIC REFUSAL: CREATIVITY AND CODEABILITY IN DIGITAL URBAN GOVERNANCE @rgsibg.bsky.social conference in Birmingham. Organisers: @ayonadatta.bsky.social @fennaimara.bsky.social and Mariana Reyes DEADLINE for abstracts: 21st February 2025. 👇 www.regionalfutures.org/all-outputs/...

New year, new platform, new volume & issue #urbangeography

"Deepseek will scare the American government into investing more in AI" invest in what? To what end? Deepseek is open source, and I guarantee you there are already American and European companies planning their own version as Deepseek explained their entire process. This is the race to the bottom!

Sciences Po is hiring an Assistant Professor on Digital Inequalities. Candidates should have strong theoretical/methodological skills, and an ambitious research agenda on social stratification and inequality. www.sciencespo.fr/osc/sites/sc...

🤖 Register and submit your abstract for the two-days workshop at the @oiioxford.bsky.social on: "Global Southing Internet, Data and AI Studies Workshop" organised by @jonasvalente.bsky.social 🗓️10:00, Tuesday 25 March - 17:00, Wednesday 26 March, 2025 👉 www.oii.ox.ac.uk/news-events/...

Open access link to download PDF of the book is live. New book - Critical Data Studies: An A to Z Guide to Concepts and Methods. Published by Polity Books. Also details on pbk & hbk purchase. www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...

Not a perfect man. Not a perfect president. But such a better man and better president than either Elon Musk or Donald Trump that hopefully he's well aware his legacy will outshine theirs forever. He got bills passed no one thought possible, oversaw a historic pandemic recovery, and modeled decency.

Writing is an act of rebellion. Writing is an act of creation. Writing is an act of salvation. Writing is an act of exploration. Writing is an act of emotion. Writing is an act of confession. Writing is an act of speculation. Writing is an act of reflection. Keep writing.

With input from friends, I’ve made a starter pack of early-career researchers across digital geography, STS, and critical AI studies. It isn’t meant to be definitive or exhaustive (though somewhat arbitrary at this stage), so please feel free to comment your own or others’ names for inclusion!

Because my followers should be amongst the first to know: @limnpress.bsky.social has released Limn 11–The Obsolescence Issue, just hours ago, free to read & reuse by one & all, on its newly redesigned website: limn.press. Or buy the gorgeous print edition. Just go take a look.

Our book (out in May) now has a cover! tinyurl.com/technocreep

A great athlete, but the real values are: empathy, sacrifice, perseverance, self improvement, honor, and friendship. We cannot fall into the hands of those who only talk about investment, profit, and speculation, as those are the very values opposed to the humanism that brought us prosperity.

people talk about Bluesky as if it’s a “young” platform. They forget that it’s a cohesive, focused posting force comprised of accounts that sharpened their skills through tens of thousand of tweets, exposed to tens of millions of views. These skeets were forged in flame, they bear the wisdom of ages

⏰Reminder to apply to the TIBG Editorial Board! We are especially keen to receive applications from those working in historical geography, sustainable development, quantitative methods, geopolitics, Africa & Latin America. Deadline: 4 December www.rgs.org/about-us/our...

CfP: How Sciences End Oxford, 11-13 July 2025 Deadline: 31 January 2025 Submit 250-word abstracts to [email protected] [I'm broadcasting this on behalf of Joe Martin, Michelle Aroney & Alex Aylward, none of whom AFAIK are on this site yet]