AbdouMaliq Simone

b. 1952, Wisconsin, USA
Lives and works between London, Turin, Jakarta and Bangkok

AbdouMaliq Simone’s research is focused on the explorations of (non)human life in an era of extensive urbanisation; the incorporation of Black critical thought and Black internationalism into theories of urbanisation; and the infrastructures and politics of urban popular economies across different geographies. Simone is Senior Professorial Fellow at the Urban Institute, University of Sheffield (2018–present); Visiting Professor of Urban Studies at the African Centre for Cities, University of Cape Town; and co-director of the Beyond Inhabitation Lab, Polytechnic University of Turin. Previously, he was Professor, Department of Socio-Cultural Diversity, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Göttingen, Germany (2014–2018). His publications include For the City Yet to Come: Urban Change in Four African Cities (Duke University Press, 2004); City Life from Jakarta to Dakar: Movements at the Crossroads (Routledge2009); Jakarta: Drawing the City Near (University of Minnesota Press, 2014); New Urban Worlds: Inhabiting Dissonant Times, Polity (with Edgar Pieterse, Polity, 2017); Improvised Lives: Rhythms of Endurance for an Urban South (Polity, 2018); and The Surrounds: Urban Life Within and Beyond Capture (Duke University Press, 2022). Simone received a BA from Hampshire College, Amherst Massachusetts (1971) and a PhD in social-clinical psychology from The Wright Institute, California (1979). Born in 1952 in Wisconsin, USA, he lives and works between London, Turin, Jakarta and Bangkok. SAF participation: March Meeting 2023