Forskningsprojekt The labours of new large-scale infrastructure projects in urban Africa

Lena Fält (2025) - Multiscalar politics of infrastructural labour: Sino-African labour regimes and precarious work in Ghana,Geoforum, Volume 163, 2025, 104328, ISSN 0016-7185

Projektaktiviteter:

2026

Odeo, Jack “Infrastructured bodies: infrastructuring the worker in Africa’s infrastructure scramble” presented at Nordic Geographers Meeting (NGM), University of Reykjavik, June 22-25, https://ngm2026.hi.is/

Odeo, Jack “In the shadow of the viaduct: New transport infrastructure and urban technopolitics in Nairobi” presented at the China Room Seminar, Polytechnic of Turin, June 9.

Odeo, Jack “Objects, practices and methods: following the politics, the people, and the everyday life” presented at the Italian Association of Africa and China Studies (AISAC) Biennial Workshop, Polytechnic of Turin, May 7-8.

2025

Ilda Lindell & Lena Fält ”Large-scale infrastructure projects and everyday life in urban Africa”, organisation of panel with two sessions at the European Conference on African Studies (ECAS), June 25-28, https://www.ecasconference.org/2025/

Ilda Lindell & Lena Fält ”Two projects on infrastructure: Emergent ‘world-class’ transport infrastructures: urban visions and infrastructural spaces in African cities & The labours of new large-scale infrastructure projects in urban Africa (panel introduction)” presented at European Conference on African Studies (ECAS), June 25-28, https://www.ecasconference.org/2025/

Odeo, Jack “In the Shadow of the Viaduct: New Transport Infrastructures and Urban Change in Nairobi“ presented at PhD half-time seminar at the Dept. of Human Geography, Stockholm University, May 8.

2024

Fält, Lena “Global infrastructure and precarious work: insights and experiences from road workers in Accra” presented at Nordic Geographers Meeting (NGM), Copenhagen, June 24-27, https://ngm2024.com/

2023

Fält, Lena “Working on the road: insights and experiences from road workers and street vendors in Accra”, presented at the Nordic Development Research Conference (NorDev), Uppsala, August 21-23, https://www.nordev2023.se/

Fält, Lena “Working on the road: insights and experiences from road workers and street vendors in Accra” presented at the European Conference on African Studies (ECAS), Cologne, May 31 - June 3, https://ecasconference.org/2023/

Fält, Lena “The labours of new large-scale infrastructure projects in urban Africa” presented at the seminar series at the Centre for Asian Studies, Stockholm University, May 23