Online panel discussion: Presencing and publishing Urban Studies from Africa

Open special session at the 2021 annual conference of the International Sociological Association Research Committee 21 on Urban and Regional Development (RC21 Conference)

While in "international" northern-based journals publishing the work of African based scholars seems to remain a challenge for editors, African scholars have organised many dynamic venues for publishing urban and African studies research. This panel brings together African-based scholars who have been involved in leading these initiatives to share their experiences; and editors working on Western-based journals to respond.

Panelists:

Edgar Pieterse (founding director of the African Centre for Cities (ACC); Professor of Urban Policy, University of Cape Town)

Saheed Aderinto (founder, Lagos Studies Association; Professor of African History at Western Carolina University)

Nadine Machikou (editor, Politique Africaine; Professor of political science at the University of Yaoundé)

Kingsley Madueke (Centre for Conflict Management & Peace Studies, University of Jos, Nigeria; PhD University of Amsterdam)

Respondents:

Vanessa Watson (Global South editor of Urban Studies; Emerita Professor of City Planning in the School of Architecture, Planning and Geomatics and a founder member of the African Centre for Cities)

Liza Weinstein (Editor, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (ijurr); Associate Professor of Sociology and Chair of the Sociology and Anthropology Department at Northeastern University)

Nik Theodore (Interventions editor of the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research and past editor of Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography; Professor and Head of the Department of Urban Planning and Policy, as well as the Director of the Center for Urban Economic Development, at the University of Illinois Chicago)

This event is part of the RC21 annual conference is the main international urban sociology conference.

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