Dr. Lorraine Dongo

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Dr. Lorraine Dongo

Dr. Lorraine Dongo

@LorraineDongo

cities, urban climate resilience, climate urbanism, intersectionality, governance, climate finance. Global South • Researcher at @Urban_Inst @loactproject

United Kingdom Katılım Mayıs 2013
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LO-ACT@loactproject·
followed by a great session on confronting capitalist ruins and living with precarity, with presentations by @a8junea and @SaskaPetrova1
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Excited to be attending the @Urban_Inst 3 days conference ‘Urban Inhabitation in the Anthropocene’ starting today with @VaneBailo introducing the conference and asking how are we going to inhabit this Anthropocene?
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The Urban Institute@Urban_Inst·
We are excited to kick off our conference on Urban Inhabitation in the Anthropocene today with an opening keynote by Matthew Gandy on Inhabiting a Broken World. Also today: public lecture by Tim Morton: The Silence of the Lawns, 18:15-18:30 BST, More 👇 sheffield.ac.uk/urban-institut…
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Activists at Mathare Social Justice Centre say their focus on ecological activism, ecological justice is inspired by the late Kenyan social, environmental and political activist Wangari Maathai. @MathareSJustice #utado2023
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Rachel Strohm@RachelStrohm·
Keguro notes that expectations about gender and sexuality get built into ordinary urban practices (security and bathrooms), but can also be legislated, as it happening in Uganda and Kenya at the moment #utado2023 hrw.org/news/2023/03/2…
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African cities and the provisions for people with disabilities are a big mismatch! Basic provisions are nonexistent! #utado2023 @GathoniAlice22 sharing research done by others that she has encountered.
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I’m discussion with Alice Gathoni, a researcher and activist at the #utado2023 on how disability resides in the society not in the Person. Social attitudes on disability need revisiting and rethinking.
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What is Southern Theory, and why does it matter? #utado2023 discussions led by @suraya_scheba enquiring on what it means to speak from the ‘South’ and the possibilities and blind-spots of Southern theory.
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@UTADO_Africa 2023 - what will you do? what is your starting point? who will you do it for? who will you do it with? how will you do it? what do you need to do it? what is the end game? …and so on.
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Vanesa Castán Broto@VaneBailo·
Next time someone says: 'this is impossible, what could we possibly do to deal with climate change?'- please refer them to this handy figure from the #ar6 #syr #IPCC
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The Urban Institute
The Urban Institute@Urban_Inst·
Announcing our new Dialogues in Urban Inhabitation and the Urban Technical. Online and curated by our @XazaarAdjame, the first lecture will be by Prof Neferti Tadiar @Nxinamt on her book Remaindered Life. 30th March 2023, 1630 -1800 GMT. Sign up: shorturl.at/egoyT
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