Transport Aliveness and Social Imagination in an African Megacity
What does it mean to theorize popular transport as embodied, experiential, reflective, and aspirational? By examining Lagos, Africa’s most populous city, through its popular transport systems and visual subculture, this talk aims to reclaim new critical aesthetics of perception and imagination. It seeks to move beyond the perfunctory narrative of transportation as crisis and instead encourages a social reimagining of Africa’s popular transport as vibrant spaces of aliveness—sites of inventive and affective responses to precarity.
Date: 23 January 2025, 14:00
Venue: Online via Teams
Speaker: Dr Daniel Agbiboa (Harvard University)
Organiser contact email address: kirsty.ray@ouce.ox.ac.uk
Part of: Transport Studies Seminar Series 2025
Booking required?: Required
Booking url: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/transport-aliveness-and-social-imagination-in-an-african-megacity-tickets-1113538045269?aff=oddtdtcreator
Cost: Free
Audience: Public
Editor: Kirsty Ray