Department of Human Geography

Publications (a selection)

Books & edited collections

Fält, L (2020) New urban horizons in Africa: A critical analysis of changing land uses in the Greater Accra Region, Ghana. Meddelanden från Kulturgeografiska institutionen vid Stockholms universitet 157.
Lindell, I. and Gough, K. (guest eds) (2019) Re-spatializing urban informality: reconsidering the spatial politics of street work in the Global South, International Development Planning Review, 41 (1).
Adama, O. and Nzeadibe, T. C. (2017) (eds) Dealing with Waste: Resource Recovery and Entrepreneurship in Informal Solid Waste Management in African Cities. Africa World Press. 292 pages.
Meagher, K. and Lindell, I. (eds)(2013) African Studies Review Forum: Engaging with African Informal Economies: Social Inclusion or Adverse Incorporation? African Studies Review, 56:3. (Introduction pp 57-76).
Lindell, I. and Utas, M. (eds)(2012) Networked City Life in Africa. Thematic Issue in Urban Forum, 23(4).
Lindell, I. (ed.) (2011), Organizing across the formal-informal worker constituencies in the Global South, Thematic Issue in Labour, Capital and Society, vol 44, nr 1. Introduction available at: http://www.lcs-tcs.com/PDFs/44_1/1%20Lindell.pdf
Lindell, I. (ed.) (2010) Africa’s Informal workers: collective agency, alliances and transnational organizing in urban Africa. London/Uppsala: Zed Books and The Nordic Africa Institute. Full book available at: http://www.diva-portal.org/
Lindell, I. (2010) (ed.) Between Exit and Voice: Informality and the Spaces of Popular Agency, Special Issue of African Studies Quarterly, Vol. 11, Nos. 2/3. Open Access. Available at: http://nai.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?searchId=1&pid=diva2:320429
Adama, O. (2007). Governing from Above Solid Waste Management in Nigeria’s New Capital City of Abuja. Stockholm Studies in Human Geography 17, Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell International. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-6845
Kjellén, M. 2006. From Public Pipes to Private Hands: Water Access and Distribution in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Published PhD Thesis, Stockholm University. http://su.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?pid=diva2:189600
Byerley, A. (2005) Becoming Jinja. The Production of Space and Making of Place in an African Industrial Town. Stockholm Studies in Human Geography 13. Stockholm: Almkvist & Wiksell International. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-620
Lourenco-Lindell, I (2002) Walking the tight rope: informal livelihoods and social networks in a West African city. Stockholm Studies in Human Geography 9. Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell Intern. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-1385

Journal articles & book chapters

Adama, O. (2020). Abuja is not for the poor: Street vending and the politics of public space. Geoforum 109: 14-23.
Lindell, I (2019) Introduction: re-spatializing urban informality: reconsidering the spatial politics of street work in the Global South, International Development Planning Review, 41 (1): 3-22.
Lindell, I; Ampaire, C and Byerley A (2019) Governing urban informality: re-working
spaces and subjects in Kampala, Uganda. International Development Planning Review, 41 (1): 63-84. https://doi.org/10.3828/idpr.2019.4
Fält, L. (2019) New cities and the emergence of ’privatized urbanism’ in Ghana. Built Environment, Vol. 44, Issue 4.
Byerley, A. (2018) Drawing white elephants in Africa? Re-contextualizing Ernst May’s Kampala plans in relation to the fraught political realities of late-colonial rule, Planning Perspectives, Planning Perspectives, DOI 10.1080/02665433.2018.1425635
Adama, O. 2018. Urban imaginaries: funding mega infrastructure projects in Lagos, Nigeria. GeoJournal, 83 (2), 257–274
Lindell, I. (2018) «Street Work: Dynamics and Trajectories of Collective Organizing», Articulo - Journal of Urban Research [Online], 17-18 | 2018, pages 1-19. Online since 01 September 2018, connection on 19 December 2018. http://journals.openedition.org/articulo/3670
Lindell, I (2018) “Street work as a key site of urban politics”, in Jonas, A., Miller, B., Ward, K and Wilson, D (eds) Handbook on spaces of urban politics. London and New York: Routledge.
Fält, L. (2018). ’Globala stadsplaneringsideal: insikter från Ghanas nya stad Appolonia’. In Andersson, I (ed) Globala flöden och lokala praktiker: policymobilitet i tid och rum. Svenska sällskapet för antropologi och geografi, Stockholm.
Lindell, I; A Ince; T Borén (2018), “Oroligheter och upplopp i utsatta stadsdelar” (Unrest and rioting in vulnerable city areas in Stockholm and London), in Forsberg, G (ed), Samhällsplaneringens teori och praktik, Stockholm: Liber AB.
Adama, O. 2016. Cities, municipal solid waste management, and climate change: perspectives from the South. Geography Compass, 10 (12), 499-513
Adama, O. (2017) "Urban Imaginaries: Funding Mega Infrastructure Projects in Lagos, Nigeria". Geojournal. DOI 10.1007/s10708-016-9761-8.
Lindell, I., Norström, J. and Byerley, A. (2016) ‘New City’ visions and the politics of redevelopment in Dar es Salaam. Working Paper. The Nordic Africa Institute. ISBN 978-91-7106-796-8.
Lindell, I. and Ampaire, C. (2016) ‘The untamed politics of urban informality: “Gray space” and struggles for recognition in an African city’. Theoretical Inquiries in Law, 17, 257-282.
Fält, L. (2016) “From Shacks to Skyscrapers: Multiple Spatial Rationalities and Urban Transformation in Accra, Ghana”. Urban Forum, Vol. 27, Issue 4, 465–486.
Byerley, A. (2015). The Rise of the Compound–Hostel–Location Assemblage as Infrastructure of South African Colonial Power: The Case of Walvis Bay 1915–1960. Journal of Southern African Studies, Vol. 41, Issue 3 (in print).
Kalyukin, A. Borén, T. & Byerley, A. (2015) The Second Generation of Post-Socialist Change: Gorky Park and Public Space in Moscow. Urban Geography.
Nzeadibe, C & Adama, O. (2015). Ingrained inequalities? Deconstructing gendered spaces in the informal waste economy of Nigeria. Urban Forum. (D01) 10.1007/s12132-014-9246-0.
Adama, O. (2014). Marginalisation and integration in the urban informal sector: the case of child waste pickers in Kaduna, Nigeria. International Development Planning Review, Vol. 36, No. 2.
Byerley, A. & Bylund, J. (2014). ’The fate of public space in Stockholm Parklife: hopeless postpolitics and professional idiots’. Book chapter in: In Metzger J, Allmeninger P & Oosterlynck S (eds) Planning Against the Political. (London & New York, Routledge, 2014). Pp.129-152.
Byerley, A. (2014). ’Introduction. Contested urban visions in the global South’. In Moksnes, H. and Melin, M. (2014) Claiming the City. Civil Society Mobilisation by the Urban Poor. Uppsala Centre for Sustainable Development.
Lindell, I and Ihalainen, M. (2014) ‘The Politics of Confinement and Mobility: Informality, Relocations and Urban Re-making from Above and Below”. In Willems, W. and E. Obadare (eds) Civic Agency in Africa: African arts of resistance in the 21st century. James Currey, Suffolk, UK.
Byerley, A. (2013) ’Displacement in the name of (re)development: The contested rise and contested demise of colonial ‘African’ housing estates in Kampala and Jinja.’ Planning Perspectives, 28: 4. pp. 547-570.
Lindell, I; Hedman, M., and Verboomen, K-N. (2013) ‘The World Cup 2010, “World class cities” and street vendors’, In Little, W., Tranberg-Hansen, K., Milgram, L., Street economies in the urban Global South, School for Advanced Research Press, Santa Fe. This book has been awarded the 2014 Society for the Anthropology of Work Book Prize.
Adama, O. (2012). Urban Livelihoods and Social Networks: emerging relations in informal sector recycling in Kaduna, Nigeria, Urban Forum, Volume 23, Issue 4, 449-466.
Adama, O. (2012). State, Space and Power in Postcolonial Africa: capital relocation as a state building project in Nigeria, Hemispheres, No. 27.
Adama, O. (2012). Urban Governance and Spatial Inequality in Service Delivery: a case study of Abuja, Nigeria. Waste Management and Research, Volume 30, Issue 9, 991-998.
Byerley, A. (2011) Ambivalent Inheritance: A town in search of its postcolonial refrain. Journal of East African Studies, 5:3.
Lindell, I. (2011) ‘The contested spatialities of transnational activism: gendered gatekeeping and gender struggles in an African association of informal workers’, Global Networks 11:2, 139–158.
Lindell, I. (2011) “Informal work and transnational organizing”, in Bieler, A. and Lindberg, I. (eds), Global restructuring, labour and challenges for transnational organizing, Routledge.
Kamete & Lindell, I. (2010): “The politics of ‘non-planning’ strategies in African cities: Unravelling the international and local dimensions in Harare and Maputo”, Journal of Southern African Studies, 36:4, 890-912.
Lindell, I., (2010) ‘Informality and Collective Organizing: Identities, Alliances and Transnational Activism in Africa’, Third World Quarterly, Vol. 31, No. 2.
Lindell, I. (2010) “Urban informal workers’ networks in Guinea-Bissau”, in Bryceson, D.F. (ed), How Africa Works: Occupational Change, Identity and Morality, Rugby UK: Practical Action Publishing, pp 149-164.
Byerley, A. (2009). ‘Mind the Gap!’ Seeking Stability Beyond the ‘Tribal’ Threshold in Late-Colonial Uganda. The Role of Urban Housing Policy and Housing Provision, 1945-1960. In: African Studies. 68:3.
Lindell, I. (2009) “ ‘Glocal’ movements: place struggles and transnational organizing by informal workers”, Geografiska Annaler, 91:2, pp 123-136.
Lindell, I. and J. Appelblad, (2009) “Disabling governance: privatization of city markets and implications for vendors’ associations in Kampala, Uganda”, Habitat International, 33:4, pp. 397-404.
Adama, O. (2008). Assessment of Municipal Solid Waste Management in Abuja, Nigeria Environ, Volume 2, Issue 9, 22-33.
Lindell, I. (2008): “Building alliances between formal and informal workers: Experiences from Africa”. In Bieler, A. et al (eds), Labour and the Challenges of Globalization: What Prospects for Transnational Solidarity?. London: Pluto Press.
Lindell, I. (2008): “The multiple sites of urban governance: Insights from an African City”. Urban Studies, 45:10, pp 1879-1901.

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