Henrik Ernstson
YOU?
Author Swipe
View article: A shallow water numerical method for assessing impacts of hydrodynamics and nutrient transport processes on water quality values of Lake Victoria
A shallow water numerical method for assessing impacts of hydrodynamics and nutrient transport processes on water quality values of Lake Victoria Open
Lake Victoria is the world's largest tropical lake and the third-largest water body, providing significant water resources for surrounding environments including the cultural, societal, and livelihood needs of people in its basin and along…
View article: Wasting CO<sub>2</sub>and the Clean Development Mechanism: The remarkable success of a climate failure
Wasting CO<sub>2</sub>and the Clean Development Mechanism: The remarkable success of a climate failure Open
This paper examines how global climate mitigation policies articulate with urban political–ecological transformations. It focuses on South African waste-to-value projects as case studies, exploring how local processes of urban ecological m…
View article: Covid Collective: Social Science Research for Covid-19 Action
Covid Collective: Social Science Research for Covid-19 Action Open
In early 2020, the world became aware of a new global threat. Covid-19 spread rapidly, upending the lives and livelihoods of people around the world. With support from the Research and Evidence Division of the UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth & …
View article: The invisible labor of the “New Angola”: Kilamba’s domestic workers
The invisible labor of the “New Angola”: Kilamba’s domestic workers Open
Kilamba, the first of the new centralities in Angola, is increasingly visible in recent urban scholarship about Luanda, further establishing it as the symbol of both this “new” post-war city and the “New Angola.” Within local discourses of…
View article: Towards situated histories of heterogenous infrastructures: Oral history as method and meaning
Towards situated histories of heterogenous infrastructures: Oral history as method and meaning Open
Building on interviews with elderly people living in a low-income and auto-constructed settlement in Kampala, Uganda, this paper explores the notion of heterogenous infrastructure in its local spatial and temporal setting. Our aim is twofo…
View article: Covid Collective: Social Science Research for Covid-19 Action
Covid Collective: Social Science Research for Covid-19 Action Open
In early 2020, the world became aware of a new global threat. Covid-19 spread rapidly, upending the lives and livelihoods of people around the world. With support from the Research and Evidence Division of the UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth an…
View article: Turning livelihood to rubbish?
Turning livelihood to rubbish? Open
This chapter is a summary of research into different types of waste interventions in South Africa. The neoliberalisation of the South African state, the widening socio-ecological polarisation and the discursive emphasis on pursuing a more …
View article: Claiming value in a heterogeneous solid waste configuration in Kampala
Claiming value in a heterogeneous solid waste configuration in Kampala Open
Kampala has a complex set of regulations describing actors, rules and procedures for collection and transportation of waste, and requires waste to be disposed of at the landfill. Yet little of the city’s waste moves through this “formal sy…
View article: Imperial Remains and Imperial Invitations: Centering Race within the Contemporary Large‐Scale Infrastructures of East Africa
Imperial Remains and Imperial Invitations: Centering Race within the Contemporary Large‐Scale Infrastructures of East Africa Open
In this paper we combine infrastructure studies and black radical traditions to foreground how imperial remains deeply inform the logics that bring forth contemporary large‐scale infrastructures in Africa. The objective, prompted by the on…
View article: Urban Plants and Colonial Durabilities
Urban Plants and Colonial Durabilities Open
The long legacy of colonization that is rooted in how plants are known is mostly out of sight. But at times the colonial legacy of botany becomes all too apparent. This article draws upon ethnograhic field work in Cape Town, South Africa, …
View article: Toward Comparative Urban Environmentalism: Situating Urban Natures in an Emerging “World of Cities”
Toward Comparative Urban Environmentalism: Situating Urban Natures in an Emerging “World of Cities” Open
Toward Comparative Urban Environmentalism : Situating Urban Natures in an Emerging ‘World of Cities’
View article: Bringing Back the Political : Egalitarian Acting, Performative Theory
Bringing Back the Political : Egalitarian Acting, Performative Theory Open
The political is categorically and fundamentally performative. Those that gain a voice as equals do not do so by demanding a right to speak within an already policed order, they stage equality and produce new spaces from where equality and…
View article: O Tempora! O Mores! Interrupting the Anthropo-obScene
O Tempora! O Mores! Interrupting the Anthropo-obScene Open
We develop the term “the Anthropo-obScene” to show how various discourses on “the Anthropocene” have created a set of stages that disavow certain voices and render some forms of acting (human, non-human, and more-than-human) off-stage. Exa…
View article: One Table Two Elephants : A cinematic ethnography about race, nature and ways of knowing the postcolonial city
One Table Two Elephants : A cinematic ethnography about race, nature and ways of knowing the postcolonial city Open
"One Table Two Elephants" is a cinematic ethnography about race, nature and ways of knowing the postcolonial city. SYNOPSIS – This is a film about bushmen bboys, a flower kingdom and the ghost of a princess. Entering the city through its p…
View article: Socioecological disparities in New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina
Socioecological disparities in New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina Open
Despite growing interest in urban resilience, remarkably little is known about vegetation dynamics in the aftermath of disasters. In this study, we examined the composition and structure of plant communities across New Orleans (Louisiana, …
View article: Thinking through heterogeneous infrastructure configurations
Thinking through heterogeneous infrastructure configurations Open
Studies of infrastructure have demonstrated broad differences between Northern and Southern cities, and deconstructed urban theory derived from experiences of the networked urban regions of the Global North. This includes critiques of the …
View article: Unlearning (Un)Located Ideas in the Provincialization of Urban Theory
Unlearning (Un)Located Ideas in the Provincialization of Urban Theory Open
Postcolonial scholars have argued for the provincialization of urban knowledge, but doing so remains an opaque process. This paper argues that explicit attention to 'learning to unlearn' unstated theoretical assumptions and normativities c…