Sinofinancialization and urban change in Addis Ababa and Nairobi: an ethnography of private Chinese capital in African cities.

Project Information

SURGE

Grant agreement ID: 886772

DOI 10.3030/886772

Project closed

EC signature date 16 March 2020

Start date 1 October 2020

End date 30 September 2023

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Total cost € 194 433,60

EU contribution € 194 433,60

Coordinated by

POLITECNICO DI TORINO
Italy

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Publications

Peer reviewed articles (5)

Between highways and fintech platforms: Global China and Africa’s infrastructure state

Author(s): Zhengli Huang, Andrea Pollio
Published in: Geoforum, Issue 147, 2023, Page(s) 1-9, ISSN 0016-7185
Publisher: Pergamon Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2023.103876

Queer Infrastructures: Objects of and Orientations towards Urban Research Practice

Author(s): Cirolia, L.R. & Pollio, A.
Published in: Urban Forum, 2023, ISSN 1015-3802
Publisher: Witwatersrand University Press
DOI: 10.1007/s12132-023-09488-w

Silicon Savannahs and motorcycle taxis: A Southern perspective on the frontiers of platform urbanism

Author(s): Liza R. Cirolia, Rike Sitas, Andrea Pollio, Alexis Gatoni Sebarenzi, Prince K. Guma
Published in: Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 2023, ISSN 1472-3409
Publisher: Sage
DOI: 10.1177/0308518x231170193

Algorithmic Suturing: Platforms, Motorcycles and the ‘Last Mile’ in Urban Africa

Author(s): Andrea Pollio, Liza R. Cirolia, Jack O. Odeo
Published in: International Journal of Urban and Regional Studies, Issue 47, 2023, Page(s) 957-974, ISSN 0309-1317
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/1468-2427.13200

Fintech urbanism in the startup capital of Africa

Author(s): Pollio, A. & Cirolia, L.R.
Published in: Journal of Cultural Economy, Issue 17530369, 2022, Page(s) 508-523, ISSN 1753-0369
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2022.2058058

Other (5)

Financing ICT and digitalisation in Africa: Current trends and key sustainability issues.

Author(s): Pollio, A. & Cirolia, L.R.
Published in: 2022
Publisher: African Centre for Cities & Alfred Herrhausen Gesellschaft

Infrastructure financing in Africa: Overview, research gaps, and urban research agenda

Author(s): Pollio, A., Cirolia, L.R., & Pieterse, E.
Published in: 2022
Publisher: African Centre for Cities & Alfred Herrhausen Gesellschaft

Platform Politics and Silicon Savannahs: The rise of on-demand logistics and mobility in Nairobi and Kigali

Author(s): Sitas, R., Cirolia, L.R., Pollio, A., Sebarenzi, A.G., Guma, P.K. and Rajashekar, A
Published in: 2022
Publisher: African Centre for Cities
DOI: 10.25375/uct.19582621

Fintech and the platformed motorcycle: speculating on ordinary mobility economies in urban Afric

Author(s): Rike Sitas, Liza Cirolia, Andrea Pollio, Jack Odeo, Alexis Sebarenzi, Alicia Fortuin
Published in: 2023, Page(s) 1-32
Publisher: African Centre for Cities

Cities as Geopolitical Testbeds of Digital Infrastructure

Author(s): Andrea Pollio
Published in: 2023, Page(s) 1-7
Publisher: The Chicago Council on Global Affairs

Book chapters (1)

The Digital Silk Road as Planetary Intelligence: A Story of China in Africa

Author(s): Andrea Pollio
Published in: Parables of AI in/from the Majority World. An anthology., 2022, Page(s) 89-99
Publisher: Data & Society Research Institute
DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.4258527