A selected bibliography of suggested readings by symposium participants:
Baruah, Neeraj G., Henderson, J. Vernon and Peng, Cong. (2017). Colonial legacies: shaping African cities. SERC Discussion Papers (SERCDP226). London: Spatial Economics Research Centre, London School of Economics and Political Science.
Benjamin, S. (2010). Manufacturing Neoliberalism: Lifestyling Indian Urbanity. In S. Banerjee-Guha (Ed.), Accumulation by Dispossession: Transformative Cities in the New Global Order (pp. 1-23). New Delhi: SAGE Publications India Pvt.
Chalfin, Brenda (2016). ‘Wastelandia’: Infrastructure and the Commonwealth of Waste in Urban Ghana. Ethnos: Journal of Anthropology, 82 (4), 648-671.
Eze, Kevin. (2016). Eating Bitter. In E. Wakatama Allfery (Ed.) Safe House. Toronto: Dundurn.
Fourchard, L. (2011). Between World History and State Formation: New Perspectives on Africa’s Cities. The Journal of African History, 52 (2), 223-248.
Guan, C. and Rowe, P. (2016). Should big cities grow? Scenario-based cellular automata urban growth modeling and policy applications. Journal of Urban Management, 5, 65-78.
Henderson, Louis (Director). (2013). Lettres du voyant [Motion Picture]. France: Le Fresnoy Studio National des Arts Contemporains.
Kedar, A., Amara, A., & Yiftachel, O. (2018). The Legal Geography of Indigenous Bedouin Dispossession. In Emptied Lands: A Legal Geography of Bedouin Rights in the Negev (pp. 1-25). Stanford University Press.
Larkin, B. (2008). Infrastructure, the Colonial Sublime, and Indirect Rule. In Signal and Noise: Media, Infrastructure, and Urban Culture in Nigeria (pp. 16-259). Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
Malaquais, D. (2006). Quelle Liberte: Art, Beauty and the Grammars of Resistance in Douala. In S. Nuttall (Ed.), Beautiful/Ugly: African and Diaspora Aesthetics (pp. 122-163). Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
Martinez-San Miguel, Y. (2014). Négropolitains and Nuyorícans: Metropolitan Racialization in Frantz Fanon and Piri Thomas. In Coloniality of Diasporas: Rethinking Intra-Colonial Migrations in a Pan-Caribbean Context (pp. 99-123). New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
Mbembe, A. & Nuttall, S. (2004). Writing the World from an African Metropolis. Public Culture, 16 (3), 347-372.
Plageman, Nate. (2013). Introduction: The Historical Significance of Urban Ghana’s Saturday Nights. In Highlife Saturday Night (pp. 1-30). Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
Pierre, Jemima. (2012). Race Across the Atlantic…and Back: Theorising Africa and/in the Diaspora. In The Predicament of Blackness: Post-Colonial Ghana and the Politics of Race (pp. 185-216). Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Pieterse, E. (2011). Grasping the unknowable: Coming to grips with African urbanisms. Social Dynamics, 37 (1), 5-23.
Quayson, Ato. (2014). Chapter 2: The Spatial Fix: Colonial Administration, Disaster Management, and Land Use Distribution in Early 20th Century Accra. In Oxford Street, Accra: City Life and the Itineraries of Transnationalism (pp. 64-97). Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
Quayson, A. (2014). Introduction: Urban Theory and Performative Streetscapes. In Oxford Street, Accra: City Life and the Itineraries of Transnationalism (pp. 1-33). Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
Reader, J. (1987). The Impact of Numbers. In Cities (pp. 160-178). New York: Atlantic Monthly Press.
Silver, Jonathan. (2015). Disrupting Infrastructures: An Urban Political Ecology of Interrupted Electricity in Accra. International Journal of Urban and Rural Research, 39 (5), 984-1003.
Smallwood, S. (2008). The Gold Coast and the Atlantic Market in People. In Saltwater Slavery: A Middle Passage from Africa to American Diaspora (pp. 9-32). Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press.