Mary Lawhon

2025

Political Ecologies of Modern and Non-modern Infrastructures

Lawhon, M. & Girma Berhanu, E., 16 Apr 2025, (Accepted/In press) Routledge Handbook of Political Ecology Volume Two. Hope, J., Apostolopoulou, E. & Collins, Y. A. (eds.). Routledge

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

Infrastructure Imaginaries, Past, Present, and Future: Living with the Urban Flood in Guwahati, India

Vij, S., Karpouzoglou, T., Lawhon, M., Deka, A. & Hazarika, N., 21 Jan 2025, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Journal of Urban Technology. 31, 4-5, p. 219-240

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

2024

Degrowth

Lawhon, M. & O'Connor, S., 18 Sept 2024, The International Encyclopedia of Geography: People, the Earth, Environment, and Technology.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary

Infrastructure in Formation: The Politics and Practices of Making Progress with Infrastructure

Mwaura, M. & Lawhon, M., 14 Aug 2024, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Urban Geography.

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Sanitation configurations in Lilongwe: Everyday experiences on and off the grid

Alda-Vidal, C., Browne, A. L., Lawhon, M. & Iossifova, D., 9 Jul 2024, In: Urban Studies. 61, 9, p. 1773-1788

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African cities in conversation: who are we listening and talking to?

Lawhon, M. & Mwaura, M., 2024, In: Urban Geography. 45, 4, p. 528-534 7 p.

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‘ENOUGH’ AS NEITHER MORE OR LESS, BUT BETTER!

Lawhon, M. & McCreary, T., 2024, In: Political Geography. p. 58-61 4 p.

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2023

Making heterogeneous infrastructure futures in and beyond the global south

Lawhon, M., Follmann, A., Braun, B., Cornea, N., Greiner, C., Guma, P., Karpouzoglou, T., Diez, J. R., Schindler, S., Schramm, S., Sielker, F., Tups, G., Vij, S. & Dannenberg, P., 1 Dec 2023, In: Futures. 154, 103270.

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A Biotoilet for the Future?

Mwaura, M. & Lawhon, M., 1 Nov 2023, In: Roadsides. Collection 010: Urban Bioinfrastructures

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The Troubles of Sharing Grammars in a World of Cities

Lawhon, M., 1 Nov 2023, In: Dialogues in Urban Research. 1, 3

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Navigating heterogeneous sanitation configurations: How off‐grid technologies work and are reworked by urban residents

Nakyagaba, G. N., Lawhon, M. & Lwasa, S., Sept 2023, In: Area. 55, 3, p. 364-371

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Enough! A Modest Political Ecology for an Uncertain Future

Lawhon, M. & McCreary, T., 22 Jun 2023, Agenda Publishing. 188 p.

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Living with fragile infrastructure: The gendered labour of preventing, responding to and being impacted by sanitation failures

Alda-Vidal, C., Lawhon, M., Iossifova, D. & Browne, A. L., 1 May 2023, In: Geoforum. 141, 103724.

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Making UBI radical: On the potential for a universal basic income to underwrite transformative and anti-kyriarchal change

Lawhon, M. & McCreary, T., 3 Apr 2023, In: Economy and Society. 52, 2, p. 349-372

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Political Ecologies of Development

Makina, A. & Lawhon, M., 1 Apr 2023, (Accepted/In press) Handbook of African Economic Development. Carmody, P., Murphy, J. T. & Elgar, E. (eds.).

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Infrastructure beyond the modern ideal: Thinking through heterogeneity, serendipity and autonomy in African cities

Lawhon, M., Makina, A. & Nsangi Nakyagaba, G., 28 Feb 2023, Turning Up The Heat: Urban Political Ecology for a Changing World. Kaika, M., Keil, R., Mandler, T. & Tzaninis, Y. (eds.). Manchester: Manchester University Press, p. 186-204

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Jennifer Robinson

Lawhon, M., 2023, Key Thinkers on Space and Place. Gilmartin, M., Hubbard, P., Kitchin, R. & Roberts, S. (eds.). SAGE Publications

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed)

2022

What counts as infrastructural labour? Community action as waste work in South Africa

Stokes, K. & Lawhon, M., 13 Dec 2022, In: Area Development and Policy.

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Permission to appropriate: Waste pickers’ ‘guidelines’ for contesting and consolidating claims to waste on the streets of Tshwane, South Africa

Makina, A. & Lawhon, M., 1 Dec 2022, In: Geoforum. 137, p. 52-60

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Whose value lies in the urban mine? Reconfiguring permissions, work and the benefits of waste in South Africa

Millington, N., Stokes, K. & Lawhon, M., 15 May 2022, In: Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 112, 7, p. 1942-1957

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Towards a modest imaginary? Sanitation in Kampala beyond the modern infrastructure ideal

Lawhon, M., Nsangi Nakyagaba, G. & Karpouzoglou, T., 1 Feb 2022, In: Urban Studies. 60, 1

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Claiming value in a heterogeneous solid waste configuration in Kampala

Sseviiri, H., Lwasa, S., Lawhon, M., Ernstson, H. & Twinomuhangi, R., 1 Jan 2022, In: Urban Geography. 43, 1, p. 59-80 22 p.

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2021

Waste, Labour and Livelihoods in South Africa

Lawhon, M., Millington, N. & Stokes, K., 21 Dec 2021, The Routledge Handbook of Waste Studies. Gille, Z. & Lepawsky, J. (eds.). 1st ed. Routledge

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

Power, politics and a poo pump: Contestation over legitimacy, access and benefits of sanitation technology in Kampala

Nakyagaba, G. N., Lawhon, M., Lwasa, S., Silver, J. & Tumwine, F., 24 Sept 2021, In: Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography. 42, 3, p. 415-430 16 p.

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What is a “Green City”? Understanding Environmental Imaginaries of Residents in a Politically Conservative Area

Henderson, M. & Lawhon, M., 1 Jun 2021, In: Southeastern Geographer. 61, 2, p. 175-192

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Turning livelihood to rubbish? The politics of value and valuation in South Africa's urban waste sector: The politics of value and valuation in South Africa’s urban waste sector

Ernston, H., Lawhon, M., Makina, A., Millington, N., Stokes, K. & Swyngedouw, E., 2 Mar 2021, African cities and collaborative futures: Urban platforms and metropolitan logistics. Keith, M. & Aruska de Souza Santos, A. (eds.). Manchester: Manchester University Press, p. 96-120

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

2020

Review of A Planet to Win: Why We Need a Green New Deal

Lawhon, M. & Henderson, M., 10 Jul 2020, In: Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography. 10 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review › peer-review

Beyond southern urbanism? Imagining an urban geography of a world of cities

Lawhon, M., Le Roux, L., Makina, A., Nsangi, G., Singh, A. & Sseviiri, H., 27 May 2020, In: Urban Geography. 41, 5, p. 657-667 11 p.

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Beyond Jobs vs Environment: On the Potential of Universal Basic Income to Reconfigure Environmental Politics

Lawhon, M. & McCreary, T., 1 Mar 2020, In: Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography. 52, 2, p. 452-474 23 p.

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Making urban theory: Learning and unlearning through southern cities

Lawhon, M., 20 Jan 2020, Taylor & Francis. 124 p.

Research output: Book/Report › Book

Disambiguating the southern urban critique: Propositions, pathways and possibilities for a more global urban studies

Lawhon, M. & Truelove, Y., 1 Jan 2020, In: Urban Studies. 57, 1, p. 3-20 18 p.

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2019

Geographies of waste: Conceptual vectors from the Global South

Millington, N. & Lawhon, M., 1 Dec 2019, In: Progress in Human Geography. 43, 6, p. 1044-1063 20 p.

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Placing race: On the resonance of place with black geographies

Allen, D., Lawhon, M. & Pierce, J., 1 Dec 2019, In: Progress in Human Geography. 43, 6, p. 1001-1019 19 p.

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Southern urbanism or a world of cities? Modes of enacting more global urban geographical textbooks, teaching and research

Lawhon, M. & Le Roux, L., 21 Oct 2019, In: Urban Geography. 40, 9, p. 1251-1269 19 p.

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[Review of] Garbage citizenship: vital infrastructures of labor in Dakar, Senegal

Lawhon, M., 24 Jul 2019, In: Social and Cultural Geography. 20, 6, p. 872-74 2 p.

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From precarious work to obsolete labour? Implications of technological disemployment for geographical scholarship

Pierce, J., Lawhon, M. & McCreary, T., 3 Apr 2019, In: Geografiska Annaler, Series B: Human Geography. 101, 2, p. 84-101 18 p.

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2018

A labour question for the 21st century: Perpetuating the work ethic in the absence of jobs in South Africa’s waste sector

Lawhon, M., Millington, N. & Stokes, K., 2 Nov 2018, In: Journal of Southern African Studies. 44, 6, p. 1115-1131 17 p.

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Welcome to Greater Edendale: Histories of Environment, Health, and Gender in an African City by Marc Epprecht (review)

Lawhon, M., Jun 2018, In: Southeastern Geographer. 58, 2, p. 212-214 2 p.

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The right to move: informal use rights and urban practices of mobility

Pierce, J. & Lawhon, M., 28 May 2018, In: Urban Geography. 39, 5, p. 667-686 20 p.

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Thinking through heterogeneous infrastructure configurations

Lawhon, M., Nilsson, D., Silver, J., Ernstson, H. & Lwasa, S., 1 Mar 2018, In: Urban Studies. 55, 4, p. 720-732 13 p.

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Scale and the construction of environmental imaginaries in local news

Lawhon, M., Pierce, J. & Bouwer, R., 2 Jan 2018, In: South African Geographical Journal. 100, 1, p. 1-21 21 p.

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Provincializing urban appropriation: Agonistic transgression as a mode of actually existing appropriation in South African cities

Lawhon, M., Pierce, J. & Makina, A., Jan 2018, In: Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography. 39, 1, p. 117-131 15 p.

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Post-Weinstein Academia

Lawhon, M., 2018, In: ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies. 17, 3, p. 634-642 9 p.

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2017

2016

2015

Walking as Method: Toward Methodological Forthrightness and Comparability in Urban Geographical Research

Pierce, J. & Lawhon, M., 2 Oct 2015, In: Professional Geographer. 67, 4, p. 655-662 8 p.

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