Prince Guma
@princeguma.bsky.social
Researcher | geographies, infrastructures, technologies, politics, lifeworlds
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Prince Guma
@princeguma.bsky.social
· Mar 4
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 reiterate the need to reorient the foundational parameters of infrastructure…
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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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!
🧵👇
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!
🧵👇
November 4, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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!
🧵👇
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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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....
I argue for the need to decenter and pluralize global urban thought
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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...
www.tandfonline.com
October 7, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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....
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....
I argue for the need to decenter and pluralize global urban thought
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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...
www.tandfonline.com
October 7, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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....
I argue for the need to decenter and pluralize global urban thought
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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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...
📖 www.ijurr.org/article/ever...
May 26, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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...
📖 www.ijurr.org/article/ever...
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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...
📖 www.ijurr.org/article/infr...
May 27, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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...
📖 www.ijurr.org/article/infr...
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My paper, ‘Everyday Infrastructures of Urban Life’, now published in this latest issue of IJURR: www.ijurr.org/issue/vol-49...
May 23, 2025 at 6:04 PM
My paper, ‘Everyday Infrastructures of Urban Life’, now published in this latest issue of IJURR: www.ijurr.org/issue/vol-49...
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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....
I explore how informal work and governance shape Africa’s smart urban futures.
#SmartCities #UrbanAfrica #Labour #Infrastructure
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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...
www.tandfonline.com
April 22, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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....
I explore how informal work and governance shape Africa’s smart urban futures.
#SmartCities #UrbanAfrica #Labour #Infrastructure
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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📖 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
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
May 19, 2025 at 1:56 PM
📖 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
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
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📣 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...
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...
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...
uclpress.co.uk
April 28, 2025 at 11:04 AM
📣 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...
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....
I explore how informal work and governance shape Africa’s smart urban futures.
#SmartCities #UrbanAfrica #Labour #Infrastructure
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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...
www.tandfonline.com
April 22, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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....
I explore how informal work and governance shape Africa’s smart urban futures.
#SmartCities #UrbanAfrica #Labour #Infrastructure
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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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
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
These are followed by the first article by @ayonadatta.bsky.social and @fennaimara.bsky.social advocating for consideration of time and timing for understanding statecraft in Kenya's Silicon Savannah journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... 3/7
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April 18, 2025 at 4:58 AM
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
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
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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
Why even have a brain, any ideas, any ability to express them, any kind of communication with other people, any desire to solve problems or invent anything, any reason to learn, any use for your eyes or your heart, or any reason to teach or create
April 15, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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
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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!
We just published our new episode 86 - Book Review: Concrete City: Material Flows and Urbanization in West Africa.🎧
Listen here or on Spotify:
urbanpolitical.online/86-book-revi...
Listen here or on Spotify:
urbanpolitical.online/86-book-revi...
April 3, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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!
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Listen to our latest podcast on the recent important book of Armelle Choplin, Concrete City. With @wanguikimani.bsky.social @princeguma.bsky.social and #alicehertzog
We just published our new episode 86 - Book Review: Concrete City: Material Flows and Urbanization in West Africa.🎧
Listen here or on Spotify:
urbanpolitical.online/86-book-revi...
Listen here or on Spotify:
urbanpolitical.online/86-book-revi...
April 3, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Listen to our latest podcast on the recent important book of Armelle Choplin, Concrete City. With @wanguikimani.bsky.social @princeguma.bsky.social and #alicehertzog
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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.
They discuss the paradox of concrete, the idea behind green cement, the meaning of concrete for West African cities and much more.
March 31, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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.
They discuss the paradox of concrete, the idea behind green cement, the meaning of concrete for West African cities and much more.
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Prince Guma and Joel Ongwech explore the road to Uganda’s future. Limn 11 - The Obsolescence Issue
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March 18, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Prince Guma and Joel Ongwech explore the road to Uganda’s future. Limn 11 - The Obsolescence Issue
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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....
A century of propaganda studies: from pen and sword to surveillant smartphone
Published in Critical Studies in Media Communication (Ahead of Print, 2025)
www.tandfonline.com
March 8, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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....
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 reiterate the need to reorient the foundational parameters of infrastructure…
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
March 4, 2025 at 7:41 AM
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 reiterate the need to reorient the foundational parameters of infrastructure…
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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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?
Eryk: are you a witch?
Anatomy of an AI Coup | TechPolicy.Press
DOGE is gutting federal agencies to install AI across the government. Democracy is on the line, writes Tech Policy Press fellow Eryk Salvaggio.
www.techpolicy.press
February 26, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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?
Eryk: are you a witch?
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📣 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/...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Timing the state - Ayona Datta, Fenna Imara Hoefsloot, 2025
We wish to express our gratitude to the interlocutors for their considered and thoughtful commentaries on our article. They invoke new questions around the powe...
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February 24, 2025 at 6:24 AM
📣 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/...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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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
Visit our website for details: https://buff.ly/4gw8zgb
@deensharp.bsky.social
February 21, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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
Visit our website for details: https://buff.ly/4gw8zgb
@deensharp.bsky.social