Tom Goodfellow
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 107134 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Tom Goodfellow |
| PRENOMES | Tom |
| SOBRENOME | Goodfellow |
| ASSINATURA | GOODFELLOW T |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Sheffield |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9598-5292 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 28 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 409 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 28 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2012 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 14 |
Worlding Mogadishu
Over the past 15 years, Mogadishu – the capital city of Somalia – has undergone rapid transformation. As the state was rebuilt following its collapse in the 1990s, the city became a site of diaspora return and investment. In this paper we explore the role of telecommunications companies in the development of urban land in relation to these contemporary, contested processes. We focus on Hormuud Telecommunications Company and its affiliated compani…
Homeownership and tenure (in)security in fractured urban peripheries
Awkward encounters of planning and repair
Force and Aspiration
While the emergence of social class is usually associated with relations of production or patterns of consumption, this article argues for centring mobility in class analysis, especially within rapidly growing cities. It focuses on the peripheries of Addis Ababa, where Africa’s most remarkable state‐led housing programme has produced wrenching sociospatial change. As a wide spectrum of households are sucked or expelled into these peripheries, new…
On the conditions of ‘late urbanisation’
We are living through a global urban transition, but the timing of this transition has varied significantly across countries and regions. This geographic variation in timing matters, both theoretically and substantively. Yet contemporary debates on urbanism hinge primarily on questions of universalism versus particularism, at the expense of attention to how history and geography collide to shape urban processes. Specifically, they neglect the cri…
Manufacturing urbanism
The relationship between industrialisation and urban development is subject to assumptions based on experiences in the global North, with little research on how it plays out in countries undergoing urbanisation and industrialisation today. In the context of recent excitement about China’s role in stimulating an ‘industrial revolution’ in Africa, we examine how Chinese zones in Ethiopia and Uganda are influencing the urban–industrial nexus. We arg…
Conceptualizing African Urban Peripheries
Recent years have seen a rising interest in peri-urban spaces, urban frontiers and new suburbanisms, including in African contexts. However, given the scale of urban growth and the extreme diversity of formations emerging on the geographical edges of African city-regions, a deeper understanding is needed of the drivers of peripheral urbanisms and the lived experiences of urban change in these spaces. Based on a comparative research project in Sou…
Contingent infrastructure and the dilution of 'Chineseness
Amid growing interest in China's role in financing and building infrastructure in Africa, there is still little research on how Chinese-financed infrastructures are negotiated and realised at the city and metropolitan scale. We compare the Light Rail Transit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia with the expressway linking Kampala to Entebbe airport in Uganda, examining the processes of bargaining behind these transport infrastructures and their emergent effe…
Finance, infrastructure and urban capital
Financial flows into Africa are being reoriented through the pervasive discourse of the ‘infrastructure gap’. The article argues that the generation of new infrastructures identified as ‘alternative assets’ by global finance is also creating landscapes of opportunity for urban capital accumulation by more locally embedded actors. Thus, as international financial flows are becoming ‘infrastructuralised’, domestic capital is increasingly ‘real-esta…
Carrot, Stick and Statute
Thick claims and thin rights
The importance of tenure security for development and wellbeing is often reduced to questions about how titles can guarantee rights, overlooking the contested and layered nature of property rights themselves. We use the case of Lagos to analyse property rights as 'analogue' rather than 'digital' in nature – things that only exist by degree, where a dynamic urban situation renders the distinction between a right and a claim much less clear than co…
Political Informality
This article develops a conceptual framework for analysing political informality, before going on to explore it through a discussion of urban politics in Kampala, Uganda. It builds on recent theoretical developments concerning the relationship between ‘deals’ and ‘rules’, the role of informal trust networks in politics, and different conceptualisations of patron-client relations, to consider varying forms of informal political negotiation and bar…
Leapfrogging Manufacturing? Rwanda’s Attempt to Build a Services-Led ‘Developmental State’
A key characteristic of East Asian 'developmental states' was a strategic focus on manufacturing, but developing countries today face more complex decisions about whether to prioritise manufacturing or attempt to 'leapfrog' straight to services. Rwanda is a striking example of a country that both resembles a developmental state and employs a service-led strategy. We argue that, unlike the Asian developmental states, Rwanda is not experiencing an …
Seeing Political Settlements through the City
This article presents a new analytical framework for studying cities in the developing world based on the 'political settlements' approach. This has a dual purpose: to enrich comparative urban research by bringing new theoretical ideas to bear on this field, but also to use capital cities as a lens to better understand national political settlements. The central argument is that urban built environments and their transformations in situations of …
‘Double Capture’ and De-Democratisation
This article analyses problems of interest representation and democratic consolidation, using a case study of the Uganda Taxi Operators and Drivers Association (UTODA). It shows how apparently representative organisational forms can exploit the majority of their members, bolstering the power of political-economic elites who straddle the state-society divide, as well as how such organisations can undermine the foundations for democratic consolidat…
Taxing property in a neo-developmental state
Of the African states experiencing sustained growth and poverty reduction in recent decades, Rwanda and Ethiopia stand out due to the scope of their development visions and relatively effective state-driven transformation, leading them to be compared to the East Asian ‘developmental states’. This article argues that these two states are better conceived as ‘neo-developmental’ due to important differences in the international and national constrai…
Urban Fortunes and Skeleton Cityscapes
In many parts of Africa, societies that remain primarily rural are experiencing accelerated urban growth and highly visible booms in property development. In the absence of significant industrialization, investment is pouring directly into what Lefebvre and Harvey characterized as the 'secondary circuit' of capital. Debates about the drivers of investment in real estate are longstanding in relation to the global North, but have given little consi…
Taming the “Rogue” Sector
Despite widespread reference in international development discourses to the importance of “effective states,” the meaning of effectiveness is often unclear. This article presents a theoretical framework for analyzing state effectiveness and evaluates it through a comparative empirical study. Focusing on efforts to regulate and tax the lucrative informal urban transport sector, it maps out the landscape of institutions and political interests that…
Conflict and post-war transition in African cities
Legal Manoeuvres and Violence
This article explores the interplay between violent protest and the making of laws in Uganda. It advances two main arguments. First, since multipartyism was restored in 2005, the Ugandan government has repeatedly drafted intentionally contentious new laws in part to provoke, divide and politically manipulate opposition. Implementing these laws has often not appeared to be a priority; rather, drafting, debating and (sometimes) passing them represe…
Rwanda's political settlement and the urban transition
Although still predominantly rural, Rwanda is one of the world's fastest-urbanizing countries. This paper considers the Rwandan Patriotic Front's (RPF) approach to urban development in the context of intense pressure on land and a stated long-term agenda of moving towards a future that is '100% urban'. The RPF government has won plaudits for its transformation of Kigali, and its Land Tenure Regularisation programme is proceeding at a pace few ant…
The clash of institutions
In the context of the widespread ‘resurgence’ of traditional authorities in Africa, increasing attention has been devoted to the manner in which the institutions of the state combine with those of non-state authorities. While much of the debate has been focused on the implications for democracy, this paper addresses the relationship between traditional resurgence and violent conflict. An analytical framework that distinguishes between ‘institutio…
Cities and Conflict in Fragile States in the Developing World
The articles presented in this Special Issue draw on five years of research by the Cities and Fragile States programme of the Crisis States Research Centre, based at the London School of Economics and Political Science. This programme, funded by the UK Department for International Development (DFID), was an exploratory ‘blue skies’ endeavour that set out to examine the relationship between cities, states and conflict in conflict-affected parts of…
Planning and development regulation amid rapid urban growth
Property, Institutions, and Social Stratification in Africa
It is rare that in that in four years since a book’s publication the author has published two further monographs and an edited collection. Strange as it may sound, one can therefore already take a
Finance, infrastructure and urban capital
Financial flows into Africa are being reoriented through the pervasive discourse of the ‘infrastructure gap’. The article argues that the generation of new infrastructures identified as ‘alternative assets’ by global finance is also creating landscapes of opportunity for urban capital accumulation by more locally embedded actors. Thus, as international financial flows are becoming ‘infrastructuralised’, domestic capital is increasingly ‘real-esta…
Taming the “Rogue” Sector
Despite widespread reference in international development discourses to the importance of “effective states,” the meaning of effectiveness is often unclear. This article presents a theoretical framework for analyzing state effectiveness and evaluates it through a comparative empirical study. Focusing on efforts to regulate and tax the lucrative informal urban transport sector, it maps out the landscape of institutions and political interests that…
Urban Fortunes and Skeleton Cityscapes
In many parts of Africa, societies that remain primarily rural are experiencing accelerated urban growth and highly visible booms in property development. In the absence of significant industrialization, investment is pouring directly into what Lefebvre and Harvey characterized as the 'secondary circuit' of capital. Debates about the drivers of investment in real estate are longstanding in relation to the global North, but have given little consi…
The clash of institutions
In the context of the widespread ‘resurgence’ of traditional authorities in Africa, increasing attention has been devoted to the manner in which the institutions of the state combine with those of non-state authorities. While much of the debate has been focused on the implications for democracy, this paper addresses the relationship between traditional resurgence and violent conflict. An analytical framework that distinguishes between ‘institutio…
Cities and Conflict in Fragile States in the Developing World
The articles presented in this Special Issue draw on five years of research by the Cities and Fragile States programme of the Crisis States Research Centre, based at the London School of Economics and Political Science. This programme, funded by the UK Department for International Development (DFID), was an exploratory ‘blue skies’ endeavour that set out to examine the relationship between cities, states and conflict in conflict-affected parts of…
Planning and development regulation amid rapid urban growth
From Urban Catastrophe to 'Model' City? Politics, Security and Development in Post-conflict Kigali
In the years immediately after the 1994 Rwandan genocide, Kigali was a site of continuing crisis amid extraordinary levels of urban population growth, as refugees returned to Rwanda in their millions. Yet unlike many post-conflict cities that spiral into endemic crime and instability, it was rapidly securitised in the context of political consolidation and large amounts of foreign aid, and hailed by the UN as a 'model, modern city'. This paper an…
Rwanda's political settlement and the urban transition
Although still predominantly rural, Rwanda is one of the world's fastest-urbanizing countries. This paper considers the Rwandan Patriotic Front's (RPF) approach to urban development in the context of intense pressure on land and a stated long-term agenda of moving towards a future that is '100% urban'. The RPF government has won plaudits for its transformation of Kigali, and its Land Tenure Regularisation programme is proceeding at a pace few ant…
Presidential intervention and the changing ‘politics of survival’ in Kampala’s informal economy
Seeing Political Settlements through the City
This article presents a new analytical framework for studying cities in the developing world based on the 'political settlements' approach. This has a dual purpose: to enrich comparative urban research by bringing new theoretical ideas to bear on this field, but also to use capital cities as a lens to better understand national political settlements. The central argument is that urban built environments and their transformations in situations of …
Contingent infrastructure and the dilution of 'Chineseness
Amid growing interest in China's role in financing and building infrastructure in Africa, there is still little research on how Chinese-financed infrastructures are negotiated and realised at the city and metropolitan scale. We compare the Light Rail Transit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia with the expressway linking Kampala to Entebbe airport in Uganda, examining the processes of bargaining behind these transport infrastructures and their emergent effe…
On the conditions of ‘late urbanisation’
We are living through a global urban transition, but the timing of this transition has varied significantly across countries and regions. This geographic variation in timing matters, both theoretically and substantively. Yet contemporary debates on urbanism hinge primarily on questions of universalism versus particularism, at the expense of attention to how history and geography collide to shape urban processes. Specifically, they neglect the cri…
Thick claims and thin rights
The importance of tenure security for development and wellbeing is often reduced to questions about how titles can guarantee rights, overlooking the contested and layered nature of property rights themselves. We use the case of Lagos to analyse property rights as 'analogue' rather than 'digital' in nature – things that only exist by degree, where a dynamic urban situation renders the distinction between a right and a claim much less clear than co…
Taxing property in a neo-developmental state
Of the African states experiencing sustained growth and poverty reduction in recent decades, Rwanda and Ethiopia stand out due to the scope of their development visions and relatively effective state-driven transformation, leading them to be compared to the East Asian ‘developmental states’. This article argues that these two states are better conceived as ‘neo-developmental’ due to important differences in the international and national constrai…
Conceptualizing African Urban Peripheries
Recent years have seen a rising interest in peri-urban spaces, urban frontiers and new suburbanisms, including in African contexts. However, given the scale of urban growth and the extreme diversity of formations emerging on the geographical edges of African city-regions, a deeper understanding is needed of the drivers of peripheral urbanisms and the lived experiences of urban change in these spaces. Based on a comparative research project in Sou…
Leapfrogging Manufacturing? Rwanda’s Attempt to Build a Services-Led ‘Developmental State’
A key characteristic of East Asian 'developmental states' was a strategic focus on manufacturing, but developing countries today face more complex decisions about whether to prioritise manufacturing or attempt to 'leapfrog' straight to services. Rwanda is a striking example of a country that both resembles a developmental state and employs a service-led strategy. We argue that, unlike the Asian developmental states, Rwanda is not experiencing an …
Legal Manoeuvres and Violence
This article explores the interplay between violent protest and the making of laws in Uganda. It advances two main arguments. First, since multipartyism was restored in 2005, the Ugandan government has repeatedly drafted intentionally contentious new laws in part to provoke, divide and politically manipulate opposition. Implementing these laws has often not appeared to be a priority; rather, drafting, debating and (sometimes) passing them represe…
Manufacturing urbanism
The relationship between industrialisation and urban development is subject to assumptions based on experiences in the global North, with little research on how it plays out in countries undergoing urbanisation and industrialisation today. In the context of recent excitement about China’s role in stimulating an ‘industrial revolution’ in Africa, we examine how Chinese zones in Ethiopia and Uganda are influencing the urban–industrial nexus. We arg…
Carrot, Stick and Statute
Homeownership and tenure (in)security in fractured urban peripheries
Decentralization in Uganda
Reviewed by: Decentralization in Uganda: Explaining Successes and Failures in Local Governance by Gina S. Lambright Tom Goodfellow Gina S. Lambright. Decentralization in Uganda: Explaining Successes and Failures in Local Governance. Boulder, Colo.: Lynne Reinner, 2011. xiv + 318 pp. Maps. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $69.95. Cloth. Uganda’s decentralization program was among the most radical in Africa, celebrated by scholars and don…
Presidential intervention and the changing ‘politics of survival’ in Kampala’s informal economy
The clash of institutions
In the context of the widespread ‘resurgence’ of traditional authorities in Africa, increasing attention has been devoted to the manner in which the institutions of the state combine with those of non-state authorities. While much of the debate has been focused on the implications for democracy, this paper addresses the relationship between traditional resurgence and violent conflict. An analytical framework that distinguishes between ‘institutio…
Cities and Conflict in Fragile States in the Developing World
The articles presented in this Special Issue draw on five years of research by the Cities and Fragile States programme of the Crisis States Research Centre, based at the London School of Economics and Political Science. This programme, funded by the UK Department for International Development (DFID), was an exploratory ‘blue skies’ endeavour that set out to examine the relationship between cities, states and conflict in conflict-affected parts of…
Planning and development regulation amid rapid urban growth
Decentralization in Uganda
Reviewed by: Decentralization in Uganda: Explaining Successes and Failures in Local Governance by Gina S. Lambright Tom Goodfellow Gina S. Lambright. Decentralization in Uganda: Explaining Successes and Failures in Local Governance. Boulder, Colo.: Lynne Reinner, 2011. xiv + 318 pp. Maps. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $69.95. Cloth. Uganda’s decentralization program was among the most radical in Africa, celebrated by scholars and don…
From Urban Catastrophe to 'Model' City? Politics, Security and Development in Post-conflict Kigali
In the years immediately after the 1994 Rwandan genocide, Kigali was a site of continuing crisis amid extraordinary levels of urban population growth, as refugees returned to Rwanda in their millions. Yet unlike many post-conflict cities that spiral into endemic crime and instability, it was rapidly securitised in the context of political consolidation and large amounts of foreign aid, and hailed by the UN as a 'model, modern city'. This paper an…
Conflict and post-war transition in African cities
Legal Manoeuvres and Violence
This article explores the interplay between violent protest and the making of laws in Uganda. It advances two main arguments. First, since multipartyism was restored in 2005, the Ugandan government has repeatedly drafted intentionally contentious new laws in part to provoke, divide and politically manipulate opposition. Implementing these laws has often not appeared to be a priority; rather, drafting, debating and (sometimes) passing them represe…
Rwanda's political settlement and the urban transition
Although still predominantly rural, Rwanda is one of the world's fastest-urbanizing countries. This paper considers the Rwandan Patriotic Front's (RPF) approach to urban development in the context of intense pressure on land and a stated long-term agenda of moving towards a future that is '100% urban'. The RPF government has won plaudits for its transformation of Kigali, and its Land Tenure Regularisation programme is proceeding at a pace few ant…
Taming the “Rogue” Sector
Despite widespread reference in international development discourses to the importance of “effective states,” the meaning of effectiveness is often unclear. This article presents a theoretical framework for analyzing state effectiveness and evaluates it through a comparative empirical study. Focusing on efforts to regulate and tax the lucrative informal urban transport sector, it maps out the landscape of institutions and political interests that…
‘Double Capture’ and De-Democratisation
This article analyses problems of interest representation and democratic consolidation, using a case study of the Uganda Taxi Operators and Drivers Association (UTODA). It shows how apparently representative organisational forms can exploit the majority of their members, bolstering the power of political-economic elites who straddle the state-society divide, as well as how such organisations can undermine the foundations for democratic consolidat…
Taxing property in a neo-developmental state
Of the African states experiencing sustained growth and poverty reduction in recent decades, Rwanda and Ethiopia stand out due to the scope of their development visions and relatively effective state-driven transformation, leading them to be compared to the East Asian ‘developmental states’. This article argues that these two states are better conceived as ‘neo-developmental’ due to important differences in the international and national constrai…
Urban Fortunes and Skeleton Cityscapes
In many parts of Africa, societies that remain primarily rural are experiencing accelerated urban growth and highly visible booms in property development. In the absence of significant industrialization, investment is pouring directly into what Lefebvre and Harvey characterized as the 'secondary circuit' of capital. Debates about the drivers of investment in real estate are longstanding in relation to the global North, but have given little consi…
Leapfrogging Manufacturing? Rwanda’s Attempt to Build a Services-Led ‘Developmental State’
A key characteristic of East Asian 'developmental states' was a strategic focus on manufacturing, but developing countries today face more complex decisions about whether to prioritise manufacturing or attempt to 'leapfrog' straight to services. Rwanda is a striking example of a country that both resembles a developmental state and employs a service-led strategy. We argue that, unlike the Asian developmental states, Rwanda is not experiencing an …
Seeing Political Settlements through the City
This article presents a new analytical framework for studying cities in the developing world based on the 'political settlements' approach. This has a dual purpose: to enrich comparative urban research by bringing new theoretical ideas to bear on this field, but also to use capital cities as a lens to better understand national political settlements. The central argument is that urban built environments and their transformations in situations of …
Political Informality
This article develops a conceptual framework for analysing political informality, before going on to explore it through a discussion of urban politics in Kampala, Uganda. It builds on recent theoretical developments concerning the relationship between ‘deals’ and ‘rules’, the role of informal trust networks in politics, and different conceptualisations of patron-client relations, to consider varying forms of informal political negotiation and bar…
Finance, infrastructure and urban capital
Financial flows into Africa are being reoriented through the pervasive discourse of the ‘infrastructure gap’. The article argues that the generation of new infrastructures identified as ‘alternative assets’ by global finance is also creating landscapes of opportunity for urban capital accumulation by more locally embedded actors. Thus, as international financial flows are becoming ‘infrastructuralised’, domestic capital is increasingly ‘real-esta…
Carrot, Stick and Statute
Thick claims and thin rights
The importance of tenure security for development and wellbeing is often reduced to questions about how titles can guarantee rights, overlooking the contested and layered nature of property rights themselves. We use the case of Lagos to analyse property rights as 'analogue' rather than 'digital' in nature – things that only exist by degree, where a dynamic urban situation renders the distinction between a right and a claim much less clear than co…
Conceptualizing African Urban Peripheries
Recent years have seen a rising interest in peri-urban spaces, urban frontiers and new suburbanisms, including in African contexts. However, given the scale of urban growth and the extreme diversity of formations emerging on the geographical edges of African city-regions, a deeper understanding is needed of the drivers of peripheral urbanisms and the lived experiences of urban change in these spaces. Based on a comparative research project in Sou…
Contingent infrastructure and the dilution of 'Chineseness
Amid growing interest in China's role in financing and building infrastructure in Africa, there is still little research on how Chinese-financed infrastructures are negotiated and realised at the city and metropolitan scale. We compare the Light Rail Transit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia with the expressway linking Kampala to Entebbe airport in Uganda, examining the processes of bargaining behind these transport infrastructures and their emergent effe…
On the conditions of ‘late urbanisation’
We are living through a global urban transition, but the timing of this transition has varied significantly across countries and regions. This geographic variation in timing matters, both theoretically and substantively. Yet contemporary debates on urbanism hinge primarily on questions of universalism versus particularism, at the expense of attention to how history and geography collide to shape urban processes. Specifically, they neglect the cri…
Manufacturing urbanism
The relationship between industrialisation and urban development is subject to assumptions based on experiences in the global North, with little research on how it plays out in countries undergoing urbanisation and industrialisation today. In the context of recent excitement about China’s role in stimulating an ‘industrial revolution’ in Africa, we examine how Chinese zones in Ethiopia and Uganda are influencing the urban–industrial nexus. We arg…
Property, Institutions, and Social Stratification in Africa
It is rare that in that in four years since a book’s publication the author has published two further monographs and an edited collection. Strange as it may sound, one can therefore already take a
Awkward encounters of planning and repair
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