The Nordic Africa Institute

Stephen Marr

FORMER Research Associate (ended 2021)

This page is kept for historical reasons. The association ended 2021

Stephen Marr is Senior Lecturer in Peace and Conflict Studies at Malmö University with a PhD in Political Science from the University of Florida. His current research engages issues of comparative urbanism, with a focus on practices of DIY urbanism amidst pervasive socio-economic and spatial insecurity in cities of sub-Saharan Africa (Lagos) and the post-industrial American Midwest (Detroit). Other interests include peace and conflict, globalization, political theory and popular culture.