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SUMMARY:African Infrastructure Futures Conference: Urban research, debates and priorities
DESCRIPTION:The African Centre for Cities, along with its hosting partners, convene the African Infrastructure Futures Conference from 21-23 November 2022, in Cape Town, South Africa. The conference is curated as follows: Day 1 will adopt a more traditional academic conference format and Day 2 and 3 will focus on the substance of policy and practice debates.\nTHE ACADEMIC CONFERENCE | 21 November 2022\nThe one-day Academic Conference programme will kick-off with a keynote presentation by Prof Dilip M Menon, Centre for Indian Studies in Africa, Director, and Mellon Chair in Indian Studies, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. The presentation is entitled Drowning Cities: Thinking urbanism in the age of global warming. \nThree parallel sessions are structured along four thematic tracks:\nTRACK A – Design/Resilience\nSession 1: How Africa’s marginalised urban majority reframes the sustainability agenda\nSession 2: Resilience as a concept, infrastructural practice, and/or (re)imagination\nSession 3: Redirecting urban trajectories through speculative design practices and dispositions\nTRACK B – Power/Governance\nSession 1: Power and politics from urban peripheries\nSession 2: States and possibilities of urban infrastructure policymaking\nSession 3: Plural governance regimes: urban politics beyond the state\nTRACK C – Networks/Frontier\nSession 1: Finance as & of infrastructure: reframing financial and fiscal frontiers\nSession 2: Platformed cities and citizen\nSession 3: Enduring and emerging spatial imaginaries: from SEZs to ring road\nTRACK D – Everyday/Hybridity\nSession 1: Infrastructure’s multiplicities-circulations, adaptations, and composites\nSession 2: Everyday socio-infrastructural encounters in African cities\nSession 3: Decaying, caring and repairing urban infrastructure\nThe day will conclude with a panel discussion entitled Propositions of the Present: Closing Reflections on the Potentials and Pathways for Urban Infrastructure Scholarship from Africa.\n\nDOWNLOAD THE PROGRAMME\nThe Academic Conference has reached capacity. \n\n
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