Goldsmiths - University of London

AbdouMaliq Simone PhD

Urbanism, critical geography, sociologies of religion, social organizations, development processes, African politics, popular urban cultures

I joined the department in 2006. Prior to this I had taught at several universities across Africa and in New York, as well as spending many years working for NGOs and applied research institutions.

Teaching

I am currently teaching a graduate course entitled "Inventive Methods" and doing a range undergraduate lecturing.

Areas of supervision

Urban life, socio-economic development, postcolonial theory, space and society, materialities and social life, new regionalisms, politics in the Global South, youth culture and religions

Selected publications

• 2002, "Africa and Intersecting Politics." Geoforum 33, 3: 271-272.
  
  
• 1985b "The Fourth World/Ange dans le quatrieme monde." Traverses (Paris); 33/34: 210-219.
  
  
• 1985c "The Hawk and the Operator: Social Segmentation and New Urban Realities." ZG (London); 13: 20-25.
  
  
• 1985d "Oasis: Intercultural Narratives." Special Issue of Semiotext(e). Columbia University.
  
  
• 1987 "Oublier Semiology: A Review of Contemporary French Social Theory." Psych Critique; 2, 1: 103-116.
  
  
• 1988 About Face: Race in Postmodern America. New York: Autonomedia Press.
  
  
• 1990a "Metropolitan Africans: Reading Incapacity, the Incapacity of Reading." Cultural Anthropology; 4, 2: 159-171.
  
  
• 1990b "O Futuro Negro (Black to the Future)." Lusitania (Lisbon, New York) 1, 3: 69-76
  
  
• 1992 "Between the Lines: African Civil Societies and the Remaking of Urban Communities." African Insight; 22, 3: 159-164.
  
  
• 1993a "Masking Magic: Uses of Ambiguity in African Social Practices." Third Text; Summer: 56-63.
  
  
• 1993b "Civil Societies in an Internationalized Africa." Social Dynamics; 19, 2: 41-69.
  
  
• 1993c "Markets for Identity: Contextualizing Psychology in Africa" In L. Nicholas (ed.), Psychology and Oppression. Johannesburg: Skotaville.
  
  
• 1994a Invisible Governance: The Art of African Micropolitics. New York: Autonomedia Press. With David Hecht.
  
  
• 1994b "Political Islam and Social Development in the Sudan."
  International Journal of Comparative Religion and Philosophy; 2, 1.
  
  
• 1994c In Whose Image: Political Islam and Urban Practices in Sudan. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
  
  
• 1994d "In the Mix: Remaking Coloured Identities." Africa Insight; 24, 3: 161-173.
  
  
• 1994e "Transurban Migration--South Africa as a Test Bed." The Urban Age; Spring 1994: 18-19.
  
  
• 1995 "From Reproduction to Reinvention: Women's Roles in African Cities." African Insight; 24, 1: 4-14.
  
  
• 1996 Citizenship and Urban Development in Africa: Popular Cities for their Inhabitants. Dakar: ENDA Tiers Monde and the African NGO Habitat II Caucus.
  
  
• 1997 "Urban Development in South Africa: Some Critical Issues from Johannesburg." In R. Burgess, M. Carmona and T. Kolstee (eds.) The Challenge of Sustainable Cities: Neoliberalism and Urban Strategies in the Developing World. London; New Jersey: Zed Press, 245-262.
  
  
• 1998a "Urban Social Fields in Africa." Social Text; 56: 71-89
  
  
• 1998b Urban Processes and Change in Africa. Dakar: CODESRIA
  
  
• 1998c "Prospects for Local Economic Development in Winterveld." Case Studies on LED and Poverty. Pretoria: Department of Constitutional Development, 273-300.
  
  
• 1998d "Les migrations africaines et le devenir de Johannesburg." In A. Bouillon (ed.)Immigration africain en Afrique du Sud. Paris: Karthala, 199-229.
  
  
• 1999a, "Globalization and the identity of African urban practices." In H. Judin and I. Vladislavic (eds.) Architecture, apartheid and after. Rotterdam: NAi Publishers; Cape Town: James Currey.
  
  
• 1999b, "Thinking about African urban management in an era of globalization." African Sociological Review 3, 2: 69-88
  
  
• 2000, "Changing where we are by changing where we are not: Foreign Africans in Johannesburg." In S. Nuttall and C.A. Michael (eds.) Senses of Culture: South African Cultural Studies. Cape Town: Oxford University Press.
  
  
• 2001, "Between Ghetto and Globe: Remaking Urban Life in Africa. In M. Vaa, I. Tvedten and A. Tostensen (eds.), Associational Life in African Cities: Urban Governance in an Era of Change. Uppsala: Nordic African Institute
  
  
• 2001, "Africities: Popular Engagements of the Urban in Contemporary Africa." Space and Culture; 8-9.
  
  
• 2001, "Straddling the Divides: Remaking Associational Life in the Informal City." International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. 25, 1: 102-117.
  
  
• 2001, "The Worlding of African Cities." African Studies Review 44,2.
  
  
• 2002, Principles and Realities of Urban Governance in Africa. United Nations-Habitat.
  
  
• 2002, "Globalizing Urban Economies." Documenta 11_Platform 5: Exhibition, Catalogue. Ostfildern-Ruit, Germany: Hatje Cantz.
  
  
• 2002, "The Visible and Invisible: Remaking Cities in Africa." In Okwui Ewenzor et al (eds.) Under Siege: Four African Cities: Freetown, Johannesburg, Kinshasa, Lagos. Ostfildern-Ruit, Germany: Hatje Cantz.
  
  
• 2003 " On Becoming and Belonging in African Cities." In R. Tomlinson, R. Beauregard, L. Bremner, and X. Mangcu, eds. Urban Futures In Johannesburg. Routledge. With Graeme Gotz. London;New York: Routledge.
  
  
• 2003 "Reaching the Larger World: New Forms of Social Collaboration in Pikine, Senegal." Africa 73, 2: 226-250.
  
  
• 2003 "My Soul I Can See: The Limits of Growing African Cities in a Context of Globalization and Complexity." In R. Stren and P. McCarney (eds.) Governance on the Ground: Innovations and Discontinuities in Cities of the Developing World. Baltimore; London: Johns Hopkins University Press.
  
  
• 2003 A contributor to the United Nations Habitat Report, The Challenges of the Slums: Global Report on Human Settlements.
  
  
• 2004 "Critical Dimensions of Urban Life in Africa." In T. Falola and S.J. Salm (eds.) Globalization and Urbanization in Africa. Trenton, N.J; Asmara, Eritrea: Africa World Press.
  
  
• 2004, "People as Infrastructure: Intersecting Fragments in Johannesburg." Public Culture 16, 3: 407-429
  
  
• 2004, For the City Yet to Come: Changing Urban Life in Four African Cities. Duke University Press.
  
  
• 2005 Local Navigation in Douala. In S. Read, J. Rosemann and J. van Eldijk, eds., Future City. London; New York: Spon Press, 212-227.
  
  
• 2005 (ed.) Urban Africa: Changing Contours of Survival in the City. Dakar: Codesria; London: Zed Press
  
  
• 2006 Intersecting Geographies?: ICTs and other virtualities in urban Africa, in Greg Downey and Melissa Fisher (eds.) The Anthropology of Capital and the Frontiers of Ethnography. Duke University Press.
  
  
• 2005 Urban Circulation and the Everyday Politics of African Urban Youth: The Case of Douala, Cameroon. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 29:3.
  
  
• 2006 Assembling Douala, in Alev Cinar and Thomas Bender (eds.)
  Locating the City: Urban Imaginaries and the Practices of Modernity. Minneapolis; London: University of Minnesota Press.
  
  
• 2006 Urban Circulation and the Everyday Politics of African Urban Youth, in Kevin Hetherington, Ann Cronin and Beatriz Jaguaribé (eds.) Consuming the City. London; New York: Routledge.
  
  
• 2006 Pirate Towns: reworking social and symbolic infrastructures in Johannesburg and Douala. Urban Studies, Volume 42:2