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Interuniversity Department of Regional and Urban Studies and Planning (DIST)
Profile
Biography
Andrea Pollio is Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research Fellow jointly at the African Centre for Cities, University of Cape Town, and at the department of Urban and Regional Studies (DIST) at the Polytechnic of Turin. His research interests are situated at the intersection of Science and Technology Studies (STS), urban studies and development economics. His published works mostly address the interface between technology, development and urbanization in Africa. Andrea's current book project charts the landing of private Chinese technology capital in Nairobi's Silicon Savannah.
Conferences
- African Infrastructure Futures Conference (21/11/2022-23/2/2023), Program committee
Other research or teaching roles outside Politecnico
- Ricercatore, presso University of Cape Town (4/1/2021-31/12/2021)
Teaching
Teachings
Bachelor of Science
- Descrivere, analizzare, interpretare (Atelier) (modulo di Fattori geografici e economici nello sviluppo del territorio). A.A. 2019/20, PIANIFICAZIONE TERRITORIALE, URBANISTICA E PAESAGGISTICO-AMBIENTALE. Collaboratore del corso
Publications
Publications by type
PoliTO co-authors
Latest publications View all publications in Porto@Iris
- Cirolia, L. R.; Pollio, A. (2023)
Queer Infrastructures: Objects of and Orientations towards Urban Research Practice. In: URBAN FORUM. ISSN 1874-6330
Contributo su Rivista - Ortar, N.; Taylor, A. R. E.; Velkova, J.; Brodie, P.; Johnson, A.; Marquer, C.; Pollio, ... (2022)
Powering 'smart' futures: Data centres and the energy politics of digitalisation. In: Energy Futures: Anthropocene Challenges, Emerging Technologies and Everyday Life / S.N., S.L., De Gruyter, pp. 125-167. ISBN: 9783110745641
Contributo in Volume - Pollio, A.; Cirolia, L. R. (2022)
Fintech urbanism in the startup capital of Africa. In: JOURNAL OF CULTURAL ECONOMY, pp. 1-16. ISSN 1753-0350
Contributo su Rivista - VALZ GRIS, Alberto; Iacovone, Chiara; Safina, Astrid; Pollio, Andrea; Governa, Francesca (2022)
Il ‘campo’ geografico di un’etnografia sottile. Cinque esperimenti di fieldwork. In: RIVISTA GEOGRAFICA ITALIANA, vol. CXXIX, pp. 5-31. ISSN 0035-6697
Contributo su Rivista - Pollio, Andrea (2022)
Acceleration, development and technocapitalism at the Silicon Cape of Africa. In: ECONOMY AND SOCIETY, vol. 51, pp. 46-70. ISSN 0308-5147
Contributo su Rivista - Pollio, Andrea (2021)
Reading development failure: experts and experiments at the bottom of the pyramid in Cape Town. In: THIRD WORLD QUARTERLY, pp. 1-19. ISSN 0143-6597
Contributo su Rivista - Pollio, A.; Magee, L.; Ang, I.; Rowe, D.; Stevenson, D.; Swist, T.; Wong, A. (2021)
Surviving Supergentrification in Inner City Sydney: Adaptive Spaces and Makeshift Economies of Cultural Production. In: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF URBAN AND REGIONAL RESEARCH. ISSN 0309-1317
Contributo su Rivista - Khan, Marina; Magee, Liam; Pollio, Andrea; Francisco Salazar, Juan (2021)
Counter-fun, scholarly legitimacy, and environmental engagement – or why academics should code games. In: FIRST MONDAY, vol. 26. ISSN 1396-0466
Contributo su Rivista - Pollio, Andrea (2021)
Uber, airports, and labour at the infrastructural interfaces of platform urbanism. In: GEOFORUM, vol. 118, pp. 47-55. ISSN 0016-7185
Contributo su Rivista - Besplemennova, Yulya; Pollio, Andrea (2021)
Snowfall on Piazza Castello: Stubborn dispositions and multiple publics in a (temporarily smart) Milanese square. In: Shaping Smart for Better Cities: Rethinking and Shaping Relationships Between Urban Space and Digital Technologies / Aurigi, A.; Odendaal, N., Cambridge (MA), Elsevier, pp. 71-86. ISBN: 978-0-12-818636-7
Contributo in Volume