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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Geographers have shown how mobile phones are transforming urban economies in Africa by altering the temporal and spatial nature of commercial transactions. Less well …
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 …
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 …