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Book launch & discussion: Politics & the Urban Frontier: Transformation & Divergence in Late Urbanizing East Africa
**Please note new time & location**.
Hybrid event: co-hosted with the British Institute in Eastern Africa (BIEA
Register here: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_3v-l9_B3T8Ci3MDfb6OJcw
- Challenges dominant approaches in development studies and urban studies to provide a novel explanation of different trajectories of urban development in Africa in the twenty-first century
- Provides an in-depth comparative study of urban change in Ethiopia, Rwanda, and Uganda based on field research spanning over a decade
- Situates East Africa as the ‘global urban frontier’ and the most vital region for interrogating contemporary urban dynamics
- Shows how causal factors located at the regional, national and city scale are crucial in understanding patterns of urban development
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Date:
7 March 2023, 12:00
Venue:
St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details:
Pavilion Room
Speakers:
Tom Goodfellow (Sheffield),
Biruk Terrefe (University of Oxford)
Organising department:
Centre for African Studies
Organiser:
Jason Mosley (University of Oxford)
Part of:
Northeast Africa Forum seminar series
Booking required?:
Recommended
Booking url:
https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_3v-l9_B3T8Ci3MDfb6OJcw
Audience:
Public
Editor:
Jason Mosley
