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Infrastructure Between Statehood and Selfhood: The Trans-African Highway

Kenny Cupers and Prita Meier just published an article on their ongoing research on African infrastructure, exploring how highways transform statehood and selfhood. Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, 2020.

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The work-intensive fiction of frictionless trade in the Angolan port of Lobito

Jon Schubert Focaal, 2021 Cargo shipping, as emblematic stand-in for globalization, peddles a seductive imagery of frictionless transnational trade and just-in-time logistics. Backed by the normative might of transnational institutions,…

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Winter School 2020

Migration Infrastructure: Mapping the European Border Regime

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Die Gespenster Eurafrikas

Kenny Cupers Architecture magazine ARCH+, No. 239, 2020 To say that Europe has a colonial past is obvious, and the "exclaves" of the current EU—from Ceuta and Melilla to Mayotte and Réunion—are many. From the perspective of Europe’s…

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Enforced Disappearances and Border Deaths Along the Migrant Trail

Emilio Distretti Amsterdam University Press, 2020 Following an emerging theoretical approach towards border deaths as ‘enforced disappearances’, this chapter explores the question of disap- pearance in the context of global migration. By…

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Lived Modernity in Tema: Studying Home Histories

Hanna Baumann | Highway Africa Research Studio Paper, 2019

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Transfronteridad and Everyday Commuter Negotiations of Tijuana’s Borderscape

Evan Natasha Escamilla | Master Thesis, 2019

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Photo Essay: Mowbray Taxi Rank

Leandra Maria Choffat | 2019

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Urban Research Design Workshop 2019

The Research Design Workshop is an annual event for the MA students in Critical Urbanisms, taking place in the second half of their semester at the University of Cape Town.

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Poem and Photo Essay: The Ideal Urban Experience

Lee Wolf | 2019

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