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Precarity, temporality, & translocality in Africa’s urban archipelagos
Loren B Landau
University of Oxford & University of the Witwatersrand loren.landau@qeh.ox.ac.uk
London School of Economic | 5 February 2020
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translocality in Africas urban archipelagos Loren B Landau - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Precarity, temporality, & translocality in Africas urban archipelagos Loren B Landau University of Oxford & University of the Witwatersrand loren.landau@qeh.ox.ac.uk London School of Economic | 5 February 2020 Diepsloot Extension
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São Paulo Nairobi Juarez Lagos
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Cel elebrate hybridity, , im impurity, in intermingling, , th the tr transformation th that comes of f new and unexpected combinations of f human beings, cu cultures, , id ideas, , politic ics, , movies, , songs. . I I re rejo joice in in mongrelizatio ion and fear th the absolutism of f th the Pure. . Mel elange, hotchpotch, a bit it of f th this and a bit of f th that, is is how newness en enters th the worl
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It is is th the gre reat possibility th that mass mig igration gives th the worl rld, , and I I have tr tried to em embrace it. it.
– Salman Rushdie
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city inclusive sustainable
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The city
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New York Paris Chicago London
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Shanghai Dubai Singapore
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Dar es Salaam Kinshasa Luanda Addis
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Sagana, Kenya
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Inclusion as aspiration?
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God owns every rywhere, so even if if you break the la law here, he wil ill forgive you.
- Stella, Ugandan migrant in Johannesburg
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The marooned malaise
We are waiting for the
- government. We are
waiting for the UNHCR. We are waiting for God.
- Estefanos Worku Abeto
‘To be existentially and socially stuck is not just a question of being stuck in place but equally about being stuck in time’
- Jefferson, et al
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People now experience, ‘spatio- temporal dis isruption . . . . . . where their fu futures wit ithin the cit ity remain stall lled and fi fixed in in uncertainty, , ult ltimately in infl fluencing notions of f belo longing and urban governance’.
- K. Ramakrishnan, 2013
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The pro rolif iferation of f re refugee camps is is as s in integral a pro roduct/manif ifestation of f glo lobaliz ization as s is is the dense arc rchipelago
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f stop-over nowherevill lles thro rough whic ich the new glo lobe-trotting eli lite
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. . . What they sh share is is ext xtra raterritorialit ity, their not tru ruly belong to the place, being ‘in’ but not ‘of’ the sp space they physicall lly occupy.
- Z. Baumann (2002), Society Under Siege
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governing for sustainability
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Building archipelagic futures
- City remains site of imagination
and potentiality, despite precarity
- City life is constructed by the
market and politics, but not as Simmel, Weber, Lefebvre and
- ther describe
- Solidity and site-based connection
can be risky: ethics of disconnection and self-fabrication
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Governing for inclusion?
Reconsider:
- Meaning and desirability of
bounded sustainability
- ‘Rights to the city’,
mechanisms of inclusion and planning
- Marginality and agency
- Urban upgrading
Hang in There, Senzo Shabanugu
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A A new relational perspective on cit ities means that it it is is im impossible to understand cit ities as territories prio ior to their engagements wit ith
- ther pla
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– McFarlane 2011: 664
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Precarity, temporality, & translocality in Africa’s urban archipelagos
Loren B Landau
University of Oxford & University of the Witwatersrand loren.landau@qeh.ox.ac.uk
London School of Economic | 5 February 2020