Kafui Attoh

Student Fellow

Kafui Attoh, Assistant Professor of Urban Studies at the Joseph S. Murphy Institute for Worker Education, received his PhD in Geography from Syracuse University. His broad interests are in the political economy of cities, the politics of public space and debates in and around the idea of the “right to the city.” More narrowly, Kafui’s research has focused on three areas: 1) urban transit’s role within the political economy of cities, 2) the struggles and livelihoods of the transportation disadvantaged and 3) the role of urban social movements (including the labor movement) in shaping mass transit policy. Currently he is working on a project focused on the impact of TNCs (Transportation Network Companies) on the public life of cities. His work has appeared in Progress in Human Geography, New Labor Forum, The Journal of Cultural Geography, The Geographical Bulletin, ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies, Urban Studies, Antipode, and Space and Polity.

Connected Events

Movement Building, Capitalism, and the State: Struggles in Education Transportation & Agriculture

April 9, 2024

Participating Years

2016–2017

Consciousness and Revolution

The place of consciousness in radical theory and practice is a subject of significant dispute. Marx believed that much of what we construe as consciousness is “false,” a rationalization or an ideological reflex that stands between people and the “true material needs” of their life processes. Are consciousness and revolution mediated in the same ways today?