Urban comparativism and studying secularity: Interpreting young Chinese swarming to Buddhist temples
By Weishan Huang. My research focuses on the ongoing development of visible religious infrastructure and how it influences the faith of urban youth in the context of the period after COVID-19, within the framework of infrastructuring religion.
Making the town: Afro-Brazilian Tabon returnees and the transformation of Accra from the early colonial times
By Steve Tonah. This blogpost examines the contributions of the Tabon returnees from Brazil to the growth and transformation of Accra during the 19th and early 20th centuries.
Siting urban comparativism: The conundrums of the “out there”
By AbdouMaliq Simone. In this brief essay, I want to consider not so much the mechanics of comparison themselves but this spatio-temporal domain of an “out there.”