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SUMMARY:Brownbag seminar_ACCRETION THROUGH FRICTION: examining garbage flows in Dakar’s Baie de Hann
DESCRIPTION:Once the second most beautiful to the bay of Rio de Janeiro\, Dakar’s Baie de Hann is now known for its pollution. A largely EU-funded infrastructure project (2017-2021) promised to resolve the bay’s challenges. Jonas Le Thierry d’Ennequin challenges this modernist project from an Urban Political Ecology perspective. By examining how the bay’s infrastructure flows accrete (Anand\, 2015) since the 1980s\, he argues for the generative potential of “friction” in infrastructural development. \nDetails: \nDate: Thursday\, 01 August 2024 \nTime: 12h30 –14h00 \nVenue: Studio 1\, Level 5\, Environmental and Geographical Science Building \nJonas is a UKRI-funded PhD candidate at The Bartlett Development Planning Unit\, University College London. He holds an MSc Urban Development Planning from UCL and a BA Global Challenges from Leiden University & Universidad de Chile. Prior to his doctoral research he worked as a strategic communications consultant in different sectors.
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LOCATION:Studio 1\, Environmental and Geographical Science Building\, Upper Campus\, UCT
CATEGORIES:Brownbags
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SUMMARY:Brown bag seminar: The visible hand of a transport mafia in Lagos (Nigeria)
DESCRIPTION:The National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) is a recognized union\, an unofficial section of a political party\, and a ‘parastatal’ organization transporting millions of passengers in Nigeria. These multiple functions are seen by academics and the public as a problem. Many researchers consider NURTW as a mafia because of its collusions with political parties\, the police and civil servants\, an increasingly dominant interpretation characterizing popular transport organizations in the African continent. This project is aimed at understanding divergent views of ‘informal’ transport organization in Lagos\, the economic capital of Nigeria. \nTo do this\, historian and political scientist Laurent Fourchard works with photographer Andrew Esiebo to engage in a common fieldwork based on visual ethnography methods. By associating photography and ethnography\, they would like to explore the visible hand of an organization whose main functions are unseen\, hidden\, difficult to grasp or stigmatized. \nBio: Laurent Fourchard is a research professor at the National Foundation for Political Science (CERI) and teaching faculty at Sciences Po’s Urban School. He was Director of the French Institute for Research in Africa (IFRA) in Nigeria from 2000 to 2003 and visiting scholar at the University of Cape Town in 2008 and 2009. Before joining CERI in 2016 he was a research fellow at the research institute\, Les Afrique dans le monde at Sciences Po Bordeaux.
URL:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/the-visible-hand-of-a-transport-mafia-in-lagos-nigeria/
LOCATION:Studio 1\, Environmental and Geographical Science Building\, Upper Campus\, UCT
CATEGORIES:Brownbags
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SUMMARY:ACC Brown Bag - Living Off-Grid: Reflections from Ghana and Zimbabwe
DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Percy Toriro – University of Zimbabwe and Issahaka Fuseini – University of Ghana \nJoin this discussion between Percy Toriro and Issahaka Fuseini\, who will share findings from their work as city partners in the LOGIC (off-grid) project. Percy will engage the theme of ‘Electricity visits us’: the challenges of living with poor infrastructure and services in an off-grid settlement\, with a focus on Dzivarasekwa\, Zimbabwe. Issahaka will speak to the realities of off-griddedness and various assemblages to adapt to water scarcity and sanitation challenges in Tamale\, Ghana. \nThese inputs will be followed by reflections by Hayley MacGregor (IDS) locating these discussions within the overlooked intersections between urban studies\, the “infrastructure turn” and emerging urban food\, nutrition and wider wellbeing debates. \nThis brownbag will build on the earlier conversations by Mercy Brown Luthango and Iromi Perera and the LOGIC (off grid) project\, speaking to research in two additional project cities. \nWHEN: Thursday\, 11 April 2024\nTIME: 15h30 – 16h30\nVENUE: Studio 1\, Environmental and Geographical Sciences Building\, Upper Campus\, University of Cape Town \nABOUT THE SPEAKERS \nPercy Toriro has over 20 years’ experience as a city planner\, having been the Chief Planner for the City of Harare for 10 years. Dr Toriro also leads the Urban Planning Program at the Municipal Development Partnership (MDP) a network spanning 15 Southern African countries\, engaging in urban development challenges. Percy holds a PhD from the University of Cape Town. His research has covered urban infrastructure\, urban housing\, urban informality\, housing\, governance\, food systems and environment. Percy’s work sees him interacting with national\, regional and local governments in different countries and cities. Percy served four terms as President of the Zimbabwe Institute of Regional and Urban Planners (ZIRUP). Percy holds an adjunct lectureship position at the University of Zimbabwe. \nIssahaka Fuseini is a senior lecturer at the University of Ghana\, Ghana. Issahaka holds a PhD from Stellenbosch University. Issahaka’s research interest spans food systems governance\, collaborative local-level governance\, and inclusive urban development. Issahaka previously worked at the African Centre for Cities\, University of Cape Town\, during which time he was involved in multi-country\, interdisciplinary projects aimed at improving urban food systems governance and nutrition security in nine cities in Kenya\, Zambia\, Zimbabwe\, Namibia\, and South Africa. Presently\, Issahaka is a co-investigator responsible for the Ghanaian component of a UKRI-sponsored multi-country research project (under the Global Challenges Research Fund’s Off-Grid Cities call) that is being implemented in five cities in Ghana\, South Africa\, Zimbabwe\, India\, and Sri Lanka. This project seeks to understand how access to or the lack of infrastructure\, broadly defined\, impacts the food and nutrition security of marginalised populations in cities in the Global South. Issahaka is also a lead partner in a city dialogue\, facilitated by RUAF/FAO\, that is aimed at developing a city-level food systems governance agenda for his home city of Tamale\, Ghana.
URL:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/acc-brown-bag-living-off-grid-reflections-from-ghana-and-zimbabwe/
LOCATION:Studio 1\, Environmental and Geographical Science Building\, Upper Campus\, UCT
CATEGORIES:Brownbags
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