Graduate Students

Kafui Attoh

 Ph.D. Student
Kaattoh@maxwell.syr.edu

 
Education
In Process Ph.D. Geography, Syracuse University.  
Dissertation: Rights in Transit: Public Transportation and the Right to the City in Oakland California 

2008 M.A., Geography,  Syracuse University  
Master’s Thesis: Get on the Bus: Public Transportation and Neoliberlism in Syracuse NY

2006 B.A., Geography, Macalester College

Publications 
Attoh,K., (2012) Book review: Banished: The New Social Control in Urban America. Urban Studies. 49(16) 3701-3703  

Attoh, K. (2012) The Transportation Disadvantaged and The Right to the City in Syracuse, New York. The Geographical Bulletin. 53(1) 1-20

Attoh, K. et al. (2011) The Bus Hub: Poem and Song. Acme Journal: An International Journal for Critical Geographies.10 (2) 280-285     http://www.acme-journal.org/vol10/Attohetal2011.pdf 

Attoh, K., (2011) What kind of right is the right to the city? Progress in Human Geography. 35(5) 669-686

Attoh, K., (2008) Book review: Contesting Neoliberlism: Urban frontiers. Antipode 40(2) 336-338

Research: 
I am interested in a range of topics-- all of which fall under the broad categories of urban, political and transportation geography.  I am particularly interested in the geography of bus transit. My research focuses on labor struggles in the transit industry, activism and organizing around “transit justice”, as well as legal debates over the duties and liabilities of common carriers. Focused on Oakland California, the objective of my current research is to understand how such political struggles and legal debates have shaped the geography of bus transit and the livelihoods of the transit dependent. I hope to contribute to literature in transportation geography as well as scholarship in geography on rights, “rights talk” and the idea of “the right to the city.” Tangentially, I have a long standing interest in methods within time-geography, and scholarship on public space. 

Other info:
I was born in Holland, Michigan. I came of age in Ithaca, New York and I went to school in St Paul MN. In sum, I am familiar with the cold.

Favorite books:
Ambiguous Adventure
The Idiot
Nine Tomorrows