Urban Conversations: Contested Sovereignty | Elisa Tamburo

The talk examines the impacts of Chinese-led engagement in the construction sector in Kenya on city development, exploring which contested visions for the future of the city may emerge. It proposes that we venture beyond the level of the nation-state when asking questions of citizenship, governance, and sovereignty.      

Registration is required for this event. Lunch will be provided. Seating is limited.

Elisa Tamburo is a social anthropologist and UKRI-Marie Curie Global Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Anthropology at Harvard and the School of Geography and the Environment at Oxford. She is also a Lecturer in the Department of Anthropology at Harvard University. Her research project Negotiating the Cityfocuses on urban planning and dwelling amidst China-built urban infrastructure in Nairobi, Kenya.

Diane E. Davis is the Charles Dyer Norton Professor of Regional Planning and Urbanism and former Chair of the Department of Urban Planning and Design at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design (GSD). She also is the director of the Mexican Cities Initiative at the GSD, and faculty chair of the committee on Mexico at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard.  

Urban Conversations is chaired by Bruno Carvalho and Daniel Agbiboa and is co-sponsored by the Harvard Mellon Urban Initiative.