Biography:
Prince Guma is an interdisciplinary social and political scientist working at the intersection of critical urban studies, infrastructure studies, and science and technology studies, with a focus on development, political economy, and social justice. He earned his PhD (around 2020–2021) from the Department of Human Geography and Spatial Planning at Utrecht University, where his research examined the diffusion and adoption of new plans, ideas, and technologies in urban and infrastructure domains.
Following his doctoral studies, he served as Assistant Country Director and later as Honorary Research Fellow at the British Institute in Eastern Africa. In August 2022, he joined the Urban Institute at the University of Sheffield as a Research Associate, subsequently holding positions as Senior Researcher at the Institute of Geography (IGG) at the University of Neuchâtel in Switzerland and as Visiting Researcher in the Department of Thematic Studies at Linköping University in Sweden.
Guma is recognised as a rising expert in urban and infrastructure studies in the Global South. He has authored more than 50 scholarly articles and book chapters and serves on several editorial boards, including Urban Geography, Dialogues in Urban Research, and the UCL Press Urban Africa book series.
Policy Brief – Working title: Visualising Infrastructural Plurality: Subaltern Techniques, Politics and Strategies in Urban Africa