Nice to see that my paper on ‘everyday infrastructures of urban life’ is now in print at @IJURResearch. I reiterate the need to reorient the foundational parameters of infrastructure… onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…

Beyond surveillance and control: how are data & AI mobilized as infrastructures of resistance? This paper shifts attention from data & AI as instruments of authoritarian power to their potential as infrastructures of resistance and political organizing tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…

1️⃣ 🇰🇪 🇺🇬 Data, AI, and infrastructures of resistance under authoritarianism by @PrinceGuma

The school size 82 ministers Museveni cabinet has been approved. However, Janet Kataha Museveni’s approval has been deffered. Speaker told appointments committe, her office says she will appear in person at an appropriate time. She had wanted to be vetted on zoom. I have read here some comments to the effect that I’m obsessed with Museveni. How can I not be? In just this cabinet, he has appointed blood relatives. His wife, Janet Museveni, his niece Desire Muhooza who is Saleh’s daughter, his son’s sister in-law Shartsi Kutesa Musherure who is also a niece to Kataha, Henry Tumukunde who marries Janet Kataha’s cousin[Tumukunde’s son also marries Museveni’s other daughter) Jim Muhwezi who marries Janet Museveni’s cousin, Bright Rwamirama, who is also a relative. His son Muhoozi Kainerugaba is the CDF who is now appointing Parliamentary Speaker and deputy, his brother Salim Saleh is like a Co-President. As Ugandans, we must collectively be obsessed with this state of affairs. Maybe then we can gather courage and do something about it

My article on decentering and pluralising global urban thought is now open access. It reflects on epistemic justice, knowledge production, and the place of African urbanists in shaping global urban theory. Read here: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…

An exciting evening ahead at the 2026 Audrey Richards Annual Lecture in African Studies, with John Lonsdale delivering a lecture on “Self-Mastery: Jomo Kenyatta and State-Free African Political Thought” this Thursday at 5pm at Trinity College Cambridge. lnkd.in/d5g5k5zM

Jailed opposition leader Kizza Besigye turns 70 today, having spent over 500 days behind bars. #MonitorUpdates #MonitorToon

Happy birthday, Dr Kizza Besigye @kizzabesigye1! Even when he is unjustly imprisoned, he remains my beloved leader and Uganda’s most inspiring freedom fighter.

#BIEAaEvents 🌍 Join us online on April 20th for “Urbanities and global circuits: Place and place-making in the world” ✅Register here 👉 biea.ac.uk/events/eastern-af… #UrbanStudies #GlobalCircuits #PlaceMaking #EasternAfrica #UrbanResearch #AfricanCities #UrbanDevelopment #Academic @Cambridge_Uni @HKUniversity @EdinburghNapier @oxfordafrica @PrinceGuma @sharath_sri @KamauWairuri

🇺🇸 BREAKING: NYC Mayor Mamdani just said what America refuses to admit. "The wealth of a median white household in the city is more than $200,000, while that of a black household is less than $20,000." Ten times the wealth. Same city. Same century. Same flag. That's not a gap. That's a design. Spread this. America needs to stop pretending.

I will always make decisions in the national interest. That’s why we did not join the offensive action against Iran.    Reform and the Tories would’ve rushed us into war without a plan to get us out.

The fourth talk in the Urban Multiplicities Seminar Series will be delivered by @PrinceGuma (@Dept_of_POLIS) in collaboration with @IGeographies Tuesday 10th March, 16:30–18:00, Small Lecture Theatre. All welcome!

A message for Jim Ratcliffe.

This is what a black person sounds like when they’re well educated well informed and not ignorant.

"Three great forces rule the world: stupidity, fear and greed." - Albert Einstein

🚨 Most people did not pay attention, but China's proposed law on AI anthropomorphism is one of the world's STRICTEST AI laws. (and it helps demystify the idea that China does not regulate AI or that the only way to be a competitive player in the AI race is through radical deregulation or inattention to AI harms) My full article below.

Announcing the Urban Multiplicities Seminar Series, featuring six brilliant speakers @rikjaz @AyonaDatta Charlotte Lemanski @PrinceGuma @maanbarua Gillian Rose Location: Small Lecture Theatre @CamUniGeography

Let her cook 🔥

Two business school professors from the University of Technology in Sydney have sounded the alarm on the declining quality of academic literature in a new publication titled “The junkification of research”. Drawing parallels to the “enshittification” of online platforms, they argue that similar forces are now overwhelming scholarly publishing. The key drivers are threefold: 1) relentless “publish or perish” pressures in academia, 2) scientific publisher’s incentive to publish more to make more money, and 3) AI making paper production faster and easier. Taken together, they say, these drivers are a recipe for disaster. The authors call for a shift to not-for-profit models of scientific publishing and better evaluation systems. I strongly doubt either is going to happen. The problem is of course not new, and you all know that I have been drawing attention to this trend for more than a decade. It is interesting to see, however, that the awareness for the issue is increasing. Paper: Rhodes, C., & Linnenluecke, M. K., “The junkification of research” Organization (2025).

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