Ali, Nura;
Garfias Royo, Margarita;
Cupers, Kenny;
Arabbu Ndege, George;
Campbell-Clause, Jack;
Bennett, Jhono;
(2024)
How can Africa’s urban majority reframe sustainability agendas?
Environment and Urbanization
10.1177/09562478241230498.
(In press).
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Abstract
Reporting from ongoing research and planning with low-income residents in Nairobi, Lagos and Johannesburg, this field note discusses infrastructure-led sustainability transitions that are in progress, probable and possible from the perspective of Africa’s politically marginalized urban majority. Its authors probe to what extent efforts to advance more sustainable urban futures in African cities can foster climate justice – not only in terms of resource distribution and infrastructural access but also in terms of political rights, recognition and participation in decision-making about what those futures should or could be. They suggest different ways by which engaging with the infrastructural lives of politically marginalized urban subjects and collectives may allow reframing of dominant, donor-driven sustainability agendas.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | How can Africa’s urban majority reframe sustainability agendas? |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1177/09562478241230498 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/09562478241230498 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2024 International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED). This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Lficense (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment > The Bartlett School of Architecture |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10189013 |
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