CfP: Urban Africa series
Posted on 8th November, 2024
To celebrate World Urbanism Day, the editors of the open access Urban Africa series, co-published with the International African Institute, have opened a new call for proposals for new books. The series provides a platform for critical, in-depth analysis of key contemporary issues affecting urban environments across the African continent.
The editors aim to work in close collaboration with African based networks and centres of urban scholarship to publish the best of urban research on Africa, prioritising the publication of work by scholars based in African contexts as well as leading African scholars globally. Their goals are to publish an urban studies series with a distinctive African-centred approach; to provide a high-profile platform to urban scholars from the African continent; to bring the best work in African urban studies globally to African studies audiences; and to make publications widely accessible to African based scholars.
The series tackles the most important issues of the day, such as demographic change; climate change; increasing mobility; major infrastructure investments. It fosters transdisciplinary perspectives, with strong links to all areas of research prominent in urban studies, notably human geography, architecture, ethnography, anthropology, sociology, environmental studies, urban planning, politics and development. It seeks to establish insights from African urbanisms as fundamental to theory development in urban studies and place African cities in conversation with other urban contexts. The series also seeks to showcase the best of urban scholarship emanating from the African continent, and to amplify the voices of scholars who are immersed in the day-to-day realities of African urban life. The series is open to both conventional and innovative formats.
UCL Press books are open access, and manuscripts accepted for this series will incur no book publishing charge.
All proposals and further queries can be directed to Stephanie Kitchen, sk111@soas.ac.uk, or to one of the lead editors, Jennifer Robinson (Jennifer.Robinson@ucl.ac.uk) and Jeffrey Paller (jpaller@usfca.edu).
More details about the series can be found at: https://www.internationalafricaninstitute.org/publishing/urban-africa-book-series