Navigating the city: Dialectics of everyday urbanism

C McFarlane, J Silver - Transactions of the Institute of British …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
How might we conceptualise and research everyday urbanism? By examining the making of
everyday life in a low‐income neighbourhood in Uganda, we argue that a dialectics of …

[图书][B] Fragments of the city: Making and remaking urban worlds

C McFarlane - 2021 - books.google.com
Cities are becoming increasingly fragmented materially, socially, and spatially. From broken
toilets and everyday things, to art and forms of writing, fragments are signatures of urban …

Youth poverty, employment and livelihoods: social and economic implications of living with insecurity in Arusha, Tanzania

N Banks - Environment and Urbanization, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
The youth employment crisis in sub-Saharan Africa's towns and cities is among the region's
top development priorities. High rates of youth under-and unemployment create significant …

Everyday contours and politics of infrastructure: Informal governance of electricity access in urban Ghana

EF Amankwaa, KV Gough - Urban Studies, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
This article contributes to shaping the discourse on unequal geographies of infrastructure
and governance in the global South, opening up new ways of thinking through politics …

Against the odds: Young people's high aspirations and societal contributions amid a decent work shortage

A Barford, R Coombe, R Proefke - Geoforum, 2021 - Elsevier
Insufficient decent work in lower income countries is one of the most pressing global
challenges facing young people today and is captured by SDG 8: decent work for all …

[HTML][HTML] Uneven geographies of youth volunteering in Uganda: Multi-scalar discourses and practices

MB Smith, S Mills, M Okech, B Fadel - Geoforum, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper develops a multi-scalar geography of youth volunteering in Uganda. A growing
body of research has explored the geographies of volunteering in the global North and …

'We are at the mercy of the floods!': Extreme weather events, disrupted mobilities, and everyday navigation in urban Ghana

EF Amankwaa, KV Gough - Singapore Journal of Tropical …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
This paper examines how extreme weather events affect the mobility of low‐income urban
residents in Ghana. Bringing together scholarship on extreme weather and mobilities, it …

Geographies of youth, mobile phones, and the urban hustle

EF Amankwaa, J Esson, KV Gough - The Geographical Journal, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Geographers have shown how mobile phones are transforming urban economies in Africa
by altering the temporal and spatial nature of commercial transactions. Less well …

Navigating old age and the urban terrain: Geographies of ageing from Africa

K McQuaid, J Esson, KV Gough… - Progress in Human …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
This paper extends research on geographies of ageing in relation to urban academic and
policy debates. We illustrate how older people in urban African contexts deploy their agency …

Living dangerously: securityscapes of Lyuli and LGBT people in urban spaces of Kyrgyzstan

M Von Boemcken, H Boboyorov… - Critical Approaches to …, 2020 - api.taylorfrancis.com
Imaginations of existential threat do not only express themselves in exceptional actions-as
prominently suggested by securitization theory-but also in routine, day-to-day practices …