Dr AbdouMaliq Simone

Sociology

Professor l PhD

Research Interests

AbdouMaliq Simone is an urbanist with particular interest in emerging forms of social and economic intersection across diverse trajectories of change for cities in the Global South. Simone is presently Professor of Sociology at Goldsmiths College, University of London and Visiting Professor of Urban Studies at the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of Witwatersrand. His work attempts to generate new theoretical understandings based on a wide range of urban practices generated by cities in Africa, the Middle East and Southeast Asia, as well as efforts to integrate these understandings in concrete policy and governance frameworks. Key publications include, In Whose Image: Political Islam and Urban Practices in Sudan, University of Chicago Press, 1994, and For the City Yet to Come: Urban Change in Four African Cities, Duke University Press, 2004.

Recent Publications

Simone, AbdouMaliq. 2010. 2009 Urban Geography Plenary Lecture—on Intersections, Anticipations, and Provisional Publics: Remaking District Life in Jakarta. Urban Geography, 31(3), pp. 285-308.

Simone, AbdouMaliq. 2008. Broken Links, Changing Speeds, Spatial Multiples: Rewiring Douala. In: Anne M Cronin and Kevin Hetherington, eds. Consuming the Entrepreneurial City: Image, Memory, Spectacle. Routledge , 161-180.

Simone, AbdouMaliq. 2008. Emergency Democracy and the "Governing Composite". Social Text, 26(2 95), pp. 13-33.

Simone, AbdouMaliq. 2008. The Politics of Cityness and a World of Deals. In: Peter Moertenboeck and Helge Mooshammer, eds. Networked cultures: parallel architectures and the politics of space. Rotterdam: NAi Publishers.

Simone, AbdouMaliq. 2008. Practices of Convertibility in Inner City Johannesburg and Douala. In: Martina Rieker and Kamran Asdar Ali, eds. Gendering Urban Space in the Middle East, South Asia, and Africa. Palgrave Macmillan.

Simone, AbdouMaliq. 2008. The politics of the possible: Making urban life in Phnom Penh. Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, 29(2), pp. 186-204.