A comparative analysis of street trading, Covid and new street geographies in Harare, Zimbabwe and Kisumu, Kenya. Policy responses to informality in urban Africa: the example of Maputo, Mozambique. Missing the point?
Contestations for urban space: informality and institutions of disenfranchisement in Zimbabweβthe case of Masvingo City. Neither friend nor enemy: Planning, ambivalence and the invalidation of urban informality in Zimbabwe. Of good plants and useless weeds: Planning as a technology of the gardening state. Non-implementation of development plans and participatory action research in Zimbabwe. Cold-Hearted, Negligent and Spineless?
An elusive peace dividend: land access and violence in non-formal settlements in Juba, Southern Sudan. What do we see if we look down instead of up? How does artistic engagement with the spaces under our feet challenge traditional discourses in the history of art?
What do literal and metaphorical underground networks have to say about "social and ideological forms of power" that are "inseparable" from the discourse of verticalism Haacke, , 1?
We therefore strive for sessions, across all areas of research and practice, from the ancient to the contemporary and on all forms of artistic media and including those which focus on practice outside of Europe and North America. Lubumbashi and cobalt: African city at the crossroads of global decarbonization and neocolonialism.
