6th December Symposium Poster.pdf
The Exhibition's Symposium:
Forced Evictions, Urban Informalities, & Urban Hustlings
Date and Time: SATURDAY 6TH DEC 2025 13:00 - 17:00
Language: English
Venue： Exhibition room, Ground Floor, Research Institute for Languages and Cultures
of Asia and Africa(ILCAA), Tokyo University of Foreign Studies(TUFS)
Access:The nearest train station is Tama Station on the Seibu Tamagawa Line (5 minutes walk from the station).
Tobitakyu station on the Keio line takes about 20 minutes on foot.
https://www.aa.tufs.ac.jp/en/
Registration: https://forms.gle/
<<Program>>
1.Introduction of the Mukuru Project
[Wakana SHIINO (ILCAA, TUFS)]
2. Forced Evictions, Urban Informalities & Urban Hustling
[Kithinji KINYUA (ASC-TUFS)]
3. Making Sense of Resilience in Nairobi Slums: Life after Evictions and the Meaning of Land
[IMAYOSHI Yuko, SAKAGUCHI Kanon, YOKOYAMA Yae, FUKUMOTO Sayaka, HAMAGUCHI Koya,MATSUMOTO Rintaro, RYU Ayumi, TSUJI Tamaki, HAYASHI Yuka, (African Studies - TUFS)]
4. Commune and State: Two Sources of Resilience in Overcoming Crises -- Comparative Insights from Kenya's Mukuru Forced Evictions and Japan's Disaster Recovery
[NAGASE Ayaka, KATO Wakana, SHINOHARA Marika, SASAKI Kanata, MIYATA Manami, NAKAGAWA Sayako, ADACHI Senri, FUKUSHIMA Kana, YASHIMA Shinya (African Studies - TUFS)]
5. Waterscapes of Struggles: A Political Ethnography of Water Access in Nairobi's Informal
Settlements
[Rin WATANABE (Univ. of Tokyo) & Kithinji KINYUA (ASC-TUFS)]
6. The 'Hustle' Project: The concept of "Hustle'' Now and the Future
[Wakana SHIINO,Isao MURAHASHI, Eri HASHIMOTO, Takuya HAGIWARA, Rebecca BABIRYE and other members]
Organised by The Research institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa
(ILCAA), Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (TUFS)
Contact:
Wakana Shiino (wakana@aa.tufs.ac.jp); Kithinji Kinyua (labsgithinji@gmail.com)