PRECURBICA: new research project by Dr. Jon Schubert

Our colleague Dr Jon Schubert has just been awarded an Eccellenza research professorship from the Swiss National Science Foundation to carry out his new project PRECURBICA — Precarious Urbanisms in Coastal Africa.

The project will ethnographically investigate the impact of climate risk on social and infrastructural processes in four African coastal cities. By centring African actors and expertise, the project develops an environmental justice-centred critique of the capital-intensive techno-utopias that typically dominate ‘global’ debates on resilience and infrastructural adaptation to climate change. The project is funded for five years and will start from 1 April 2022 at the Division of Urban Studies  University of Basel. Congratulations, Jon!

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