Publications

C Smith ‘Kenya’s first skyscraper closes – and leaves a complicated legacy’ The Conversation, 9 March 2023

C Smith and J Fontein, ‘Introduction: Pursuing the stuff of African cities’ special issue ‘Urban Materialities in Africa’, AFRICA, 93 (1), 2023 https://doi.org/10.1017/S000197202300013X

C Smith, ‘City of Icebergs: Materiality, surface and depth in Nairobi’s built environment’ AFRICA, 93 (1), 2023 open access

 

C Smith ‘After Grenfell: Accumulation, debris and forming failure in London’, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 29 (S1), 2023 open access

 

THE URBAN POPULAR ECONOMY COLLECTIVE: Solomon Benjamin, Alioscia Castronovo, Luci Cavallero, Cristina Cielo, Véronica Gago, Prince Guma, Rupali Gupte, Victoria Habermehl, Lana Salman, Prasad Shetty, AbdouMaliq Simone, Constance Smith, and João Tonucci, ‘Urban popular economies: Territories of operation for lives deemed worth living’ Public Culture 34 (3). 2022 https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-9937241

 

C Smith ‘All in this together? Isolation and housing in ‘lockdown London’ Social Anthropology 28 (2) 2020 10.1111/1469-8676.12874

 

C Smith and S Woodcraft. ‘Introduction’ to special issue ‘Tower block “failures” and high-rise anthropology’, Focaal 86 (1) 2020. https://doi.org/10.3167/fcl.2020.860101

 

C Smith ‘Collapse: Fake buildings and gray development in Nairobi’. Focaal 86 (1) 2020 https://doi.org/10.3167/fcl.2020.860102