African Urban Studies: Contributions and Challenges

Sylvia Croese and Astrid Wood
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Sylvia Croese: University of California, Irvine (UCI), USA
Astrid Wood: Newcastle University, UK

Urban Studies, 2024, vol. 61, issue 13, 2477-2491

Abstract: Scholarship on African cities represents a growing yet still scarce subfield in urban studies, especially considering the scale and variety of African urbanisation patterns. The purpose of this Virtual Special Issue is to review the scholarship published on urban Africa in Urban Studies over the past five decades. In this Editorial, we reflect on the contributions of African urban scholarship and present a selection of articles to highlight the ways in which it has shaped key fields of urban studies. We also note the challenges that underpin ongoing lacunae in urban knowledge production and suggest directions for future work. This discussion provides a lens on our understandings of the urban condition in Africa and the general trajectory of urban scholarship.

Keywords: African urban studies; theory from the south; urban knowledge production; é žæ´²åŸŽå¸‚ç ”ç©¶; æ ¥è‡ªå —æ–¹çš„ç †è®º; 城市知识生产 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1177/00420980241239184

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