BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//African Centre for Cities - ECPv6.7.0//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:African Centre for Cities X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page X-WR-CALDESC:Events for African Centre for Cities REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Africa/Johannesburg BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:SAST DTSTART:20170101T000000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20211202T160000 DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20211202T180000 DTSTAMP:20260416T000843 CREATED:20211123T124636Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211123T124640Z UID:10002740-1638460800-1638468000@nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page SUMMARY:Pairing academia and policy for transdisciplinary research in Africa DESCRIPTION:Join the International Society for Urban Health Africa Working Group for the first discussion in the Urban Health in Africa Webinar Series entitled Pairing academia and policy for transdisciplinary research in Africa. \n\n\n\nSPEAKERS\n\n\n\nNoxolo Kabane – Deputy Director: Policy Development and Research Coordination\, Office of the Premier\, Eastern Cape Government\n\n\n\nAmy Weimann – Junior Research Fellow\, African Centre for Cities and PhD Candidate\, School of Public Health and Family Medicine\, University of Cape Town\n\n\n\nCarlos Dora – President\, International Society for Urban Health\n\n\n\nWHEN | Thursday\, 2 December 2021\n\n\n\nTIME | 14:00-16:00 GMT\n\n\n\nREGISTER HERE URL:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/pairing-academia-and-policy-for-transdisciplinary-research-in-africa/ LOCATION:Western Cape CATEGORIES:Seminar Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/FEPqGoZWQAU7ERR.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20200225T123000 DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20200225T140000 DTSTAMP:20260416T000843 CREATED:20200128T074048Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200130T120345Z UID:10002014-1582633800-1582639200@nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page SUMMARY:Academic Seminar: The edge economies of migration DESCRIPTION:Join ACC as we host Suzanne Hall for a special academic seminar entitled The edge economies of migration on Tuesday\, 25 February 2020 from 12:30 to 14:00 in the Davies Reading Room\, Environmental and Geographical Sciences Building\, Upper Campus\, UCT. Camalita Naicker\, of the Department of Historical Studies\, University of Cape Town will act as a respondent. \nABSTRACT\n‘Edge Economies’ emerge in the asymmetries of global migration and the ongoing ferocities of urban marginalisation. From the grounded perspective of street economies formed in the peripheries of post-industrial UK cities\, I explore the racialised frameworks of citizenship and economic inequality and their everyday contestations. I locate the global and urban formations of the edge in the European ideologies of displacement and immobility\, incorporating the extended coloniality of political interventionism and human subordination. By moving between spaces of globe\, state and street\, I further explore the edge as a capricious space in which social sorting\, cultural intermixtures and claims to difference are forged. Such combinations encourage connections between the histories and geographies of how people and places become bordered\, together with practices of edge economies that are both marginal and transgressive. \nBIOGRAPHY\nSuzanne Hall is a Co-director of the Cities Programme and Associate Professor in Sociology at the LSE. Suzi’s research interests engage with the street life of brutal borders\, migrant economies and urban multi-culture. \nWHEN: Tuesday\, 25 February 2020\nTIME: 12:30 – 14:00\nVENUE: Davies Reading Room\, Environmental and Geographical Sciences Building\, Upper Campus\, UCT \n  URL:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/academic-seminar-the-edge-economies-of-migration/ LOCATION:Davies Reading Room\, Room 2.27\, Environmental and Geographical Science\, UCT\, Cape Town\, Western Cape\, 8000\, South Africa CATEGORIES:Seminar Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/SD_D_L_World2Street-scaled.jpg GEO:-33.9571525;18.4599218 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Davies Reading Room Room 2.27 Environmental and Geographical Science UCT Cape Town Western Cape 8000 South Africa;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=Room 2.27\, Environmental and Geographical Science\, UCT:geo:18.4599218,-33.9571525 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20191023T123000 DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20191023T140000 DTSTAMP:20260416T000843 CREATED:20191017T104730Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191017T122113Z UID:10002003-1571833800-1571839200@nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page SUMMARY:SDG SEMINAR: Citizen-centric approaches to achieving the SDGs in Africa: reflections from practice DESCRIPTION:Namhla Mniki will present Citizen-centric approaches to achieving the SDGs in Africa: reflections from practice on 23 October\, from 12:30 to 14:00 as part of ACC’s on-going SDG Seminar series. \nNamhla Mniki is a global development strategist leading African Monitor\, an entity working to eradicate poverty\, to create economic opportunities\, and to empower African citizens to drive the achievement of sustainable development goals in Africa. \nShe specialises in citizen-centric sustainable approaches to development that promote accountable leadership and good governance in Africa and beyond.  Namhla is a global activist and speaker\, having addressed high-level audiences from the United Nations to Heads of State in Africa and Europe.  She has worked extensively with various arms of the United Nations\, including her current role as Cepei’s Expert Panel on United Nations Regional Review.  She is a patron for the Africa Youth SDGs Summit\, a Global Peer Review Expert for the German government\, and a member of the expert team for the Africa Progress Group and the World Economic Forum Africa. \nHer latest work focusses on increasing knowledge of and building capacity for co-creation and collaboration across government\, business and civil society to implement sustainable development strategies. She has a strong belief that a new paradigm of development delivery can benefit the world\, focusing on innovation\, collaboration\, multi-sectoralism\, co-creation\, and broad participation. \nWHEN: 23 October 2019\nTIME: 12:30 to 14:00\nVENUE: John Martin Boardroom\, Level 5\, New Engineering Building\, Upper Campus\, UCT \n  URL:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/sdg-seminar-citizen-centric-approaches-to-achieving-the-sdgs-in-africa-reflections-from-practice/ LOCATION:John Martin Boardroom\, New Engineering Building\, Cape Town CATEGORIES:Seminar Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/SDG_seminar.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20190918T123000 DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20190918T140000 DTSTAMP:20260416T000844 CREATED:20190903T130209Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190903T131152Z UID:10001998-1568809800-1568815200@nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page SUMMARY:SDG Seminar Series: SDG indicators for health outcomes in South Africa DESCRIPTION:Next up in the ACC seminar series on the Sustainable Development Goals\, Associate Professor Salome Maswime will present SDG indicators for health outcomes in South Africa on Wednesday\, 18 September 2019 from 12:30 to 14:00. \nMaswime is Head of Global Surgery in the Surgery Division at the Faculty of Health Sciences\, University of Cape Town. \nWHEN: Wednesday\,  18 September 2019 \nTIME: 12:30 to 14:00 \nVENUE: Aadil Moerat Seminar Room\, Barnard Fuller Room\, Health Science Campus\, Anzio Road\, Observatory \nRSVP:  Please rsvp to clare.jeffrey@uct.ac.za by 13 September 2019 \n  URL:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/sdg-seminar-series-sdg-indicators-for-health-outcomes-in-south-africa/ LOCATION:Aadil Moerat Seminar Room\, Barnard Fuller Room\, Health Science Campus\, Anzio Road\, Observatory\, Cape Town . \, South Africa CATEGORIES:Seminar Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/SDG_seminar.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20190619T123000 DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20190619T140000 DTSTAMP:20260416T000844 CREATED:20190522T123057Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190522T124741Z UID:10001991-1560947400-1560952800@nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page SUMMARY:SDG Seminar Series: Financing the SDGs in African cities? DESCRIPTION:The fourth instalment of the ACC SDG Seminar is presented by Liza Rose Cirolia on Wednesday\, 19 June 2019 at 12:30 to 14:00 in the Davies Room\, Environmental and Geographical Sciences Building\, Upper Campus\, UCT. \nEntitled Financing the SDGs in African cities?\, her seminar will explore the fiscal constraints and opportunities for local government to participation in global agendas. \nWHEN: Wednesday\, 19 June 2019 \nTIME: 12:30 to 14:00 \nVENUE: Davies Room\, Environmental and Geographical Sciences Building\, Upper Campus\, UCT. URL:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/sdg-seminar-series-financing-sdgs-african-cities/ LOCATION:Davies Reading Room\, Room 2.27\, Environmental and Geographical Science\, UCT\, Cape Town\, Western Cape\, 8000\, South Africa CATEGORIES:Seminar Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/SDG_seminar.png GEO:-33.9571525;18.4599218 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Davies Reading Room Room 2.27 Environmental and Geographical Science UCT Cape Town Western Cape 8000 South Africa;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=Room 2.27\, Environmental and Geographical Science\, UCT:geo:18.4599218,-33.9571525 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20190515T123000 DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20190515T140000 DTSTAMP:20260416T000844 CREATED:20190430T111124Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190510T081533Z UID:10001990-1557923400-1557928800@nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page SUMMARY:How data-ready are African governments to monitor SDG progress? DESCRIPTION:UCT Datafirst Manager Lynn Woolfrey presents How data-ready are African governments to monitor SDG progress? Zambia and Zimbabwe reviews on Wednesday\, 15 May at 12:30 to 14:00 in Davies Library\, Environmental and Geographical Science Building\, Upper Campus\, UCT. \nABSTRACT\nIt is clear from the development literature that Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) plans must include the building of efficient development data ecosystems (OECD\, 2015\, p. 16). Such systems can provide governments with country-level indicators for SDG planning and monitoring. For example\, the UN Economic Commission for Africa’s Africa Data Consensus suggests that official and other data producers partner to create an international data ecosystem for development planning (UNECA\, 2015\, p. 2).  In 2017 the UN Development Programme (UNDP) adopted such an ecosystems approach to conduct data audits with African governments. The audits assess a government’s “SDG indicator readiness”- whether accurate and current data is available to compile their SDG indicators – and investigate causes and solutions. The UNDP has found ecosystems mapping useful to expose the causes of poor quality national statistics\, such as inadequate funding and bureaucratic resistance to change (Menon\, 2017\, pp. 12-13\, 20). This seminar presents the findings of two SDG indicator readiness audits\, in Zambia and Zimbabwe\, and comment on the outcomes\, and the value and shortcomings of these audits for development data capacity-building in African countries. \nWHEN: Wednesday\, 15 May 2019 \nTIME: 12:30 to 14:00 \nVENUE: Davies Library\, Level 2\, Environmental and Geographical Science Building\, Upper Campus\, UCT. URL:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/data-ready-african-governments-monitor-sdg-progress/ LOCATION:Davies Reading Room\, Room 2.27\, Environmental and Geographical Science\, UCT\, Cape Town\, Western Cape\, 8000\, South Africa CATEGORIES:Seminar Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/SDG_seminar.png GEO:-33.9571525;18.4599218 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Davies Reading Room Room 2.27 Environmental and Geographical Science UCT Cape Town Western Cape 8000 South Africa;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=Room 2.27\, Environmental and Geographical Science\, UCT:geo:18.4599218,-33.9571525 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20190417T140000 DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20190417T153000 DTSTAMP:20260416T000844 CREATED:20190411T135856Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190411T135856Z UID:10001988-1555509600-1555515000@nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page SUMMARY:SDG Seminar: Unpacking SDG implementation in eThekwini DESCRIPTION:Puvendra Akkiah\, IDP Manager of eThekwini Municipality and Technical Chair of the United Cities and Local Governments Committee on Urban Strategic Planning\, will present a talk entitled Unpacking SDG implementation in eThekwini on Wednesday\, 17 April\, at 14:00 to 15:30 in Studio 3\, Environmental and Geographical Science Building\, Upper Campus\, UCT. \nAkkiah will be talking about the City of eThekwini’s bottom-up approach to aligning its Integrated Development Plan to the SDGs as part of its strategic approach to sustainability and the advocacy and training activities that the City has undertaken to raise awareness and support for SDG localization. \nWHEN: 17 April 2019 \nTIME: 14:00 to 15:30 \nVENUE: Studio 3\, Environmental and Geographical Science Building\, Upper Campus\, UCT. URL:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/sdg-seminar-unpacking-sdg-implementation-ethekwini/ LOCATION:Studio 3\, Environmental and Geographical Sciences Building\, Upper Campus\, UCT\, Cape Town\, South Africa CATEGORIES:Seminar Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/SDG_seminar.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20190225T123000 DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20190225T140000 DTSTAMP:20260416T000844 CREATED:20190213T141955Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190215T063518Z UID:10001982-1551097800-1551103200@nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page SUMMARY:Bad Health in a Good Retreat: Life and Death in the 'Worst' Neighborhood of São Paulo\, Brazil DESCRIPTION:Prof Jeffrey Lesser will be presenting a seminar entitled Bad Health in a Good Retreat: Life and Death in the ‘Worst’ Neighborhood of São Paulo\, Brazil\, on Monday\, 25 February 2019\, 12:30 to 14:00\, in the Studio 1\, Environmental and Geographical Science Building\, Upper Campus\, UCT. \nABSTRACT\nBom Retiro was (and is) a small neighborhood in the huge megalopolis of São Paulo\, Brazil.  The mainly working class neighborhood has been populated since the end of the 19th century by immigrants\, migrants from the impoverished Brazilian northeast\, and Afro-Brazilian descendants of slaves. While the cultural backgrounds of the immigrants have shifted (from Italians\, Spaniards and Portuguese Catholics in the early 20th century to East European Jews in the mid-20th century to Chinese\, Korean\, Paraguayan\, and Bolivian immigrants today)\, the neighborhood has been viewed internally and externally as one where health (in the broadest sense of the word) is precarious. “Bad Health in a Good Retreat” analyzes the relationship between “Public Health” (as a state driven set of policies and linked enforcement) and “The Public’s Health” (how real people understand their own experiences).   By focusing on one square block of Bom Retiro from about 1900 to the present I use archival and ethnographic methods to analyze the daily practices of residents and health officials\, and the stories they tell about life\, death\, and the spaces in between. \nBIOGRAPHY\nJeffrey Lesser is Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Brazilian Studies and Director of Emory University’s Halle Institute for Global Research.  His research focus is on the construction of national identity in Brazil\, focusing on how immigrant and ethnic groups understand their own and national space.   Lesser is the author of numerous prize winning books including\, Immigration\, Ethnicity and National Identity in Brazil (Cambridge University Press) A Discontented Diaspora: Japanese-Brazilians and the Meanings of Ethnic Militancy (Duke University Press); Negotiating National Identity: Immigrants\, Minorities and the Struggle for Ethnicity in Brazil (Duke University Press);  and Welcoming the Undesirables: Brazil and the Jewish Question (University of California Press).  URL:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/bad-health-good-retreat-life-death-worst-neighborhood-sao-paulo-brazil/ LOCATION:Studio 1\, Environmental and Geographical Sciences Building\, Upper Campus\, UCT\, Cape Town\, South Africa CATEGORIES:Seminar Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/jeffrey-lesser-e1550052013952.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20190213T123000 DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20190213T140000 DTSTAMP:20260416T000844 CREATED:20190208T092314Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190208T092523Z UID:10001981-1550061000-1550066400@nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page SUMMARY:SDGs Seminar Series: Localizing the SDGs in South Africa DESCRIPTION:Over the course of the next semester African Centre for Cities will be curating and hosting a series of seminars and discussions on the Sustainable Development Goals. The series kicks-off with Dr Sylvia Croese with a seminar on Localizing the SDGs in South Africa on Wednesday\, 13 February 2019\, at 12:30 to 14:00 in the Environmental and Geographical Sciences Building\, Upper Campus\, University of Cape Town. \nThe inclusion of a standalone urban goal as part of the 17 SDGs adopted in 2015 represents the culmination of the growing recognition and acknowledgement of the importance of cities as both drivers and actors in achieving sustainable development. However\, nearly four years down the line very little is known about the ways in which local governments are going about the implementation and monitoring of the SDGs. This presentation draws on on-going research in and with the City of Cape Town to shed some light on some of the factors and conditions that may limit or enable SDG localization. It kicks off a series of seminars that will be held on a monthly basis throughout 2019 on the challenges and opportunities for SDG implementation in (South) Africa. \nWHEN: Wednesday\, 13 February 2019 \nTIME: 12:30 to 14:00 \nVENUE: Environmental and Geographical Sciences Building\, Upper Campus\, UCT URL:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/sdgs-seminar-series-localizing-sdgs-south-africa/ LOCATION:Environmental and Geographical Science Building\, South Lane\, Upper Campus\, UCT\, Cape Town\, Western Cape \, 8001\, South Africa CATEGORIES:Seminar Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/SDG-seminar-series.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20181101T150000 DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20181101T163000 DTSTAMP:20260416T000844 CREATED:20181029T103210Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181029T103210Z UID:10001976-1541084400-1541089800@nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page SUMMARY:Urban Humanities: Contextualising strategies to enable LGBT rights in Africa: legitimacies\, spatial inequalities and socio-spatial relationships DESCRIPTION:Join us for the an Urban Humanities academic seminar entitled Contextualising strategies to enable LGBT rights in Africa: legitimacies\, spatial inequalities and socio-spatial relationships\, by Dr Andrew Tucker on Thursday\, 1 November 2018 at 15:00. \nABSTRACT \nThis paper explores the potential benefits of relationally considering the efficacy of radically different strategies to support LGBT rights in Africa. While a great deal has been written about the deployment of human rights-based framings to support LGBT needs on the continent\, less attention has been paid to other emergent strategies based around HIV/AIDS programming and economic development initiatives. This paper sets out a schema to consider the relational nature of these different strategies and highlights how such a schema can also enable researchers to better understand how civil society groups strategically and pragmatically harness different approaches in particular places and at particular times. \nWHEN: Thursday\, 1 November 2018 \nTIME: 15:00 to 16:30 \nVENUE: Studio 3\, Environmental and Geographical Sciences Building\, Upper Campus\, UCT URL:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/urban-humanities-contextualising-strategies-enable-lgbt-rights-africa-legitimacies-spatial-inequalities-socio-spatial-relationships/ LOCATION:Studio 3\, Environmental and Geographical Sciences Building\, Upper Campus\, UCT\, Cape Town\, South Africa CATEGORIES:Seminar Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Blog-2-image-300x300.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20181011T130000 DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20181011T140000 DTSTAMP:20260416T000844 CREATED:20181002T094324Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181002T094324Z UID:10001972-1539262800-1539266400@nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page SUMMARY:Urban Humanities: Conversations on cultural mapping and planning DESCRIPTION:“Cultural planning sits at the intersection of people\, places and policies— It provides a framework for addressing the needs and objectives of a city’s cultural sector and cultural life including arts\, culture and heritage groups and practitioners that shape a city’s cultural ecosystem.”\n  \nDr Rike Sitas will facilitate a discussion between three panelists that will look at how cultural mapping and planning responds to different research contexts depending on the questions asked and the way in which every day cultural practises unfold in different communities\, namely\, Hanover Park and Mannenberg\, Cosmo City and Mitchells Plain. The overall aims of this research is to unearth some of the cultural practises and narratives in deprived communities in South African cities and how people navigate and express themselves despite the lack of material resources and services. These types of research projects also help to inform policy around arts and cultural services for local government. \n  \nBIOS \nShamila Rahim is a cultural worker and activist who has worked extensively in the Arts\, Cultural and Heritage sector in Cape Town for the last 25 years. Currently she works at City of Cape Town as a Professional Officer in the Arts and Culture Branch. Her interests are in understanding and using arts\, culture and heritage as agents to facilitate mind set change which empower the individual to voice and become active in creating positive narratives of themselves and society as a whole. \n  \nVaughn Sadie is a conceptual artist\, educator and researcher\, living and working in Cape Town (South Africa). He is currently registered in the PhD Programme at the Urban Futures Centre at the Durban University of Technology and work at African Centre for Cities as a researcher. He is interested in interdisciplinary and participatory practices\, and the place of art in various social contexts. \n  \nAlicia Fortuin is a Masters Graduate from the School of Architecture and Planning where she completed her Masters degree in City and Regional Planning. Her Dissertation looked at the Spaces of and for Participation in the Restitution of land in District Six. It is through this research process where her interests in urban governance\, rights\, community participation and healing and memory evolved. She has most recently received the Pan African College Phd Scholarship at the African Centre for Cities\, where she will be embarking on a PHD journey which will look at the impacts and of land use dynamics and urban sprawl on young professionals in Cape Town. URL:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/urban-humanities-conversations-cultural-mapping-planning/ LOCATION:Studio 3\, Environmental and Geographical Sciences Building\, Upper Campus\, UCT\, Cape Town\, South Africa CATEGORIES:Seminar Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Screen-Shot-2018-10-02-at-11.42.02-AM.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20180920T150000 DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20180920T163000 DTSTAMP:20260416T000844 CREATED:20180905T140938Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180905T140938Z UID:10001969-1537455600-1537461000@nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page SUMMARY:Urban Humanities Seminar Series: The Invention of the ‘Sink Estate’: Consequential Categorization and the UK Housing Crisis DESCRIPTION:The Invention of the ‘Sink Estate’: Consequential Categorization and the UK Housing Crisis presented by Tom Slater explores the history and traces the realisation of a category that was invented by journalists\, amplified by free market think tanks and converted into policy doxa (common sense) by politicians in the United Kingdom: the ‘sink estate’. This derogatory designator\, signifying social housing estates that supposedly create poverty\, family breakdown\, worklessness\, welfare dependency\, antisocial behaviour and personal irresponsibility\, has become the symbolic frame justifying current policies towards social housing that have resulted in considerable social suffering and intensified dislocation. The article deploys a conceptual articulation of agnotology (the intentional production of ignorance) with Bourdieu’s theory of symbolic power to understand the institutional arrangements and cognitive systems structuring deeply unequal social relations. Specifically\, the highly influential publications on housing by a free market think tank\, Policy Exchange\, are dissected in order to demonstrate how the activation of territorial stigma has become an instrument of urban politics. The ‘sink estate’\, it is argued\, is the semantic battering ram in the ideological assault on social housing\, deflecting attention away from social housing not only as urgent necessity during a serious crisis of affordability\, but as incubator of community\, solidarity\, shelter and home. \nWHEN: Thursday 20 September 2018\nTIME: 15:00 to 16:30\nVENUE: Studio 3\, Environmental and Geographical Science Building\, Upper Campus\, UCT \n  URL:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/urban-humanities-seminar-series-invention-sink-estate-consequential-categorization-uk-housing-crisis/ LOCATION:Studio 3\, Environmental and Geographical Sciences Building\, Upper Campus\, UCT\, Cape Town\, South Africa CATEGORIES:Seminar Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Park_Hill_half-abandoned_council_housing_estate_Sheffield_England.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20180918T150000 DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20180918T163000 DTSTAMP:20260416T000844 CREATED:20180911T145022Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180917T110551Z UID:10001970-1537282800-1537288200@nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page SUMMARY:Urban Humanities Seminar Series: Vital Geopolitics by Gerry Kearns DESCRIPTION:Vital Geopolitics is the study of international relations from the perspective of life itself. Colonialism and neoliberalism are not only economic forces\, they shape social reproduction and the geography of labour power. Viewed in this way\, demography and gender\, famine and migration\, intellectual property and extortion\, suicide and capital punishment share a profound set of mutual determinants. Tracing marginality as a set of biological relations reveals some of the links between\, for example\, primitive accumulation and the Anthropocene. \nGerry Kearns is Professor of Human Geography at Maynooth University\, Ireland\, and a Member of the Royal Irish Academy. His is the author of Geopolitics and Empire (Oxford University Press 2009) and co-editor of Spatial Justice and the Irish Crisis (Royal Irish Academy 2014). \nWHEN: Tuesday\, 18 September 2018\nTIME: 15:00 to 16:30\nVENUE: Studio 3\, Environmental and Geographical Science Building\, Upper Campus\, UCT \nIMAGE CREDIT: Michael Farrell\, Wounded Wonder\, Mixed media on paper\, 96.5 x 105 cm. URL:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/urban-humanities-seminar-series-vital-geopolitics-gerry-kearns/ LOCATION:Studio 3\, Environmental and Geographical Sciences Building\, Upper Campus\, UCT\, Cape Town\, South Africa CATEGORIES:Seminar Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/michael-farrell-wounded-wonder-1847.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20180830T030000 DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20180830T163000 DTSTAMP:20260416T000844 CREATED:20180730T115343Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180730T115343Z UID:10001963-1535598000-1535646600@nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page SUMMARY:Urban Humanities Seminar Series: Dr Sabina Favaro: 'in search of thick mapping: listening to Cape Town's cities' DESCRIPTION:Dr Sabina Favaro will be sharing a paper entitled ‘in search of thick mapping: listening to Cape Town’s cities’ URL:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/urban-humanities-seminar-series-dr-sabina-favaro-search-thick-mapping-listening-cape-towns-cities/ LOCATION:Studio 3 CATEGORIES:Seminar Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/DSC_2402.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="African Centre for Cities":MAILTO:accurbanconference@gmail.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20180816T030000 DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20180816T163000 DTSTAMP:20260416T000844 CREATED:20180730T113902Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180813T085156Z UID:10001961-1534388400-1534437000@nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page SUMMARY:Urban Humanities Seminar Series: Inclusive Cultural Governance: Integrating artistic and cultural practices into national urban frameworks by Avril Joffe DESCRIPTION:Join African Centre for Cities for the second seminar the second seminar in our Urban Humanities series\, Zayd Minty will be responding to Avril Joffe talking about Inclusive Cultural Governance: Integrating artistic and cultural practices into national urban frameworks  \nWHEN: 16 August 2018 \nTIME: 15:00 to 16:30 \nVENUE: Studio 3\, Environmental and Geographical Science Building\, Upper Campus\, University of Cape Town. \nSPEAKER\nAvril Joffe is an economic sociologist with experience in the field of cultural policy\, culture and development and the cultural economy. She is the head of the Cultural Policy and Management Department at the Wits School of Arts\, University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg.  Avril is an active member of UNESCO’s Panel of Experts for Cultural Policy and Governance undertaking missions to support African governments in developing cultural policies\, cultural industry strategies\, reporting on their implementation of the UNESCO Convention\, writing and editing training manuals and recently contributed to the Global Monitoring Report 2018 on the ‘Integration of Culture in Sustainable Development’. Avril is a member of the South African Ministerial Review Panel to draft a revised cultural policy for South Africa.  She is on the board of the National Arts Council and chairs the Audit and Risk Committee for the NAC. \nRESPONDENT\nZayd Minty is a professional cultural development manager and curator.  He has previously\, since 1993\, worked in and with the cultural sector\, civil society\, academia and government\, in various leadership roles.  In addition to cultural policy and strategy work\, he has curated various arts projects and festivals. He is currently registered at the African Centre for Cities doing a doctorate looking at Cultural Clusters and Urban Development in the Johannesburg Inner City. URL:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/urban-humanities-seminar-series-avril-joffe-zayd-minty/ LOCATION:Studio 3\, Environmental and Geographical Sciences Building\, Upper Campus\, UCT\, Cape Town\, South Africa CATEGORIES:Seminar Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/DSC_2402.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="African Centre for Cities":MAILTO:accurbanconference@gmail.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20180807T150000 DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20180807T163000 DTSTAMP:20260416T000844 CREATED:20180725T232323Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180801T131234Z UID:10001960-1533654000-1533659400@nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page SUMMARY:Urban Humanities Seminar Series: Prof Sophie Oldfield "High Stakes\, High Hopes: Creating Collaborative Urban Theory" DESCRIPTION:PLEASE NOTE: THIS EVENT HAS BEEN MOVED TO TUESDAY\, 7 AUGUST DUE TO A CLASH WITH THE UCT MEMORIAL SERVICE FOR THE LATE PROF BONGANI MAYOSI.  \nACC is excited to invite you to the first Urban Humanities Seminar Series. Prof Sophie Oldfield will be presenting a paper entitled ‘High Stakes\, High Hopes: Creating Collaborative Urban Theory’. \nABSTRACT: High Stakes\, High Hopes creates urban theory in the political and physical realities of everyday southern city life. This work examines the high stakes at play in a decade-long research and teaching partnership\, which has brought this university and the neighbourhood’s civic organization in Cape Town to research the city together to collaboratively build urban theory. In narrating the project and partnership\, this lecture will explore collaborative forms of urban theory\, immersed in the registers\, inspirations and meanings of everyday struggles and learning across the city. This approach brings together multiple voices\, registers and accounts\, shaping urban theory in shared spaces across the city. In this context of extreme urban inequality\, this approach to theorising infuses the personal\, political\, and public struggles through which urban theory is generated\, expertise opened up\, and solidarity and commitment built. \nBIO: Sophie Oldfield holds the University of Basel–University of Cape Town Professorship in Urban Studies\, based at the African Centre for Cities at the University of Cape Town. Her research is grounded in empirical and epistemological questions central to urban theory. Focusing on housing\, informality and governance\, mobilization and social movement organizing\, and urban politics\, her work pays close attention to political practice and everyday urban geographies\, analysing the ways in which citizens and organized movements craft agency to engage and contest the state. She has a track record of excellence in collaborative research practice\, challenging how academics work in and between “university” and “community.” \n  URL:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/urban-humanities-seminar-series-prof-sophie-oldfield-high-stakes-high-hopes-creating-collaborative-urban-theory/ LOCATION:Studio 3\, Environmental and Geographical Sciences Building\, Upper Campus\, UCT\, Cape Town\, South Africa CATEGORIES:Seminar Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Sharing-research-findings-in-neighbourhood-Oldfield-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20180612T150000 DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20180612T163000 DTSTAMP:20260416T000844 CREATED:20180608T111801Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180608T112007Z UID:10001957-1528815600-1528821000@nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page SUMMARY:Cities and Climate Change Seminar 4 DESCRIPTION:Working at the interface of climate science\, urban policy and practice: developing ideas of distillation and receptivity\nWHEN: 12 June 2018\nTIME: 3:00 to 4:30\nWHERE: Studio 3\, Environmental and Geographical Science Building\, Upper Campus\, University of Cape Town\nThe last seminar in the 4 part series on cities and climate change will focus on how the worlds of climate science and urban policy making and implementation are being brought closer together in ways that might support more evidence-based decision making on urban matters that are climate sensitive. Drawing primarily on the efforts of\, and experiences from\, the Future Resilience of African Cities and Lands (FRACTAL) project\, the speakers will present ideas and practices of distilling relevant\, actionable climate information and fostering greater receptivity to engaging\, co-producing and acting on climate information. Central to this is the creation of city learning labs as a space for bringing together a diversity of people and knowledge to generate new thinking and possibly nudge processes of decision making in new directions. Experiences of designing and implementing such labs in Maputo\, Lusaka and Windhoek will be discussed in relation to emerging concepts of distillation and receptivity. The seminar will provide an opportunity to share insights about working at science-policy-practice interfaces between those working in the climate space and those working in other urban science-policy domains\, like health\, water management\, housing and biodiversity.\nCHAIR: Prof Sue Parnell \nSPEAKERS: \n Dr Chris Jack\, Principal Scientific Officer\, Climate System Analysis Group (CSAG)\, and ACDI Senior Fellow\n Dr Di Scott\, African Centre for Cities\n Dr Izidine Pinto\, Climate System Analysis Group URL:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/cities-climate-change-seminar-4/ LOCATION:Studio 3\, Environmental and Geographical Science Building\, Upper Campus\, UCT\, Cape Town\, South Africa CATEGORIES:Seminar Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/DSC_0554_CCC.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20180528T150000 DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20180528T163000 DTSTAMP:20260416T000844 CREATED:20180523T075423Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180523T075423Z UID:10001953-1527519600-1527525000@nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page SUMMARY:Cities and Climate Change: Seminar 3 DESCRIPTION:Nate Millington will present a talk entitled Making sense of our water crisis: what can we learn from São Paulo? as part of our on-going series on Cities and Climate Change on 28 May 2018\, at 15:00 to 16:30 in Studio 3\, Environmental and Geographical Science Building\, Upper Campus\, UCT. \nBoth Cape Town and São Paulo have recently been marked by drought-induced water crises\, as pre-existing infrastructures were forced to confront changing climates\, continued growth\, and infrastructural breakdown. These dynamics coexist in intimate ways with long histories of auto-construction\, heterogeneous infrastructural development\, and uneven water security. While water insecurity has long marked cities in the global south\, multi-year droughts have resulted in water crises in southern cities with previously robust water management systems. Experiences of citywide scarcity in these two cities point to the increasing regularity and visibility of persistent water crisis at the global level\, which is drawing new actors into new coalitions and reconfiguring existing governance patterns. The intensity of the droughts that affected São Paulo in 2013-2015 and Cape Town in 2015-17 are undoubtedly outliers\, but when situated in multi-year frameworks the trends seem to suggest that water patterns in both cities are shifting in line with expanded water use and increased urbanization. This has implications not just for São Paulo and Cape Town\, but also for southern cities where water insecurity is more chronic. \nIn this seminar\, we think comparatively about São Paulo’s experience of crisis and its implication both for Cape Town as well for cities more generally. We ask how São Paulo’s experience with scarcity helps us to think through and make sense of Cape Town’s ongoing crisis. At the same time\, we are interested in thinking comparatively about the differences in how the two cities responded. Ultimately\, our intention is to think both globally and locally: to put two these two cities in conversation while being clear that global climate change is a planetary phenomenon. \n  \nSpeaker: Nate Millington \nDiscussant: Anna Taylor \nChair: Gina Ziervogel \n  \nWHEN: 28 May 2018 \nTIME: 15:00 to 16:30 \nVENUE: Studio 3\, Environmental and Geographical Science Building\, Upper Campus\, Cape Town URL:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/cities-climate-change-seminar-3/ LOCATION:Studio 3\,\, Environmental and Geographical Science Building\, Upper Campus\, UCT\, Cape Town\, South Africa CATEGORIES:Seminar Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/url17.jpg GEO:-33.957652;18.4611991 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Studio 3 Environmental and Geographical Science Building Upper Campus UCT Cape Town South Africa;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=Environmental and Geographical Science Building\, Upper Campus\, UCT:geo:18.4611991,-33.957652 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20171207T030000 DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20171207T163000 DTSTAMP:20260416T000844 CREATED:20171012T105923Z LAST-MODIFIED:20171012T105923Z UID:10001941-1512615600-1512664200@nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page SUMMARY:ACC NOTRUC Seminar Series: Producing water scarcity in São Paulo\, Brazil: The 2014 Water Crisis and the Binding Politics of Infrastructure DESCRIPTION:The last instalment of the annual ACC NOTRUC Seminar Series is presented by Dr Nate Millington on Producing water scarcity in São Paulo\, Brazil: The 2014 Water Crisis and the Binding  Politics of Infrastructure at 15:00 in Studio 1\, Environmental and Geographical Sciences Building\, Upper Campus\, University of Cape Town. \nABSTRACT \nIn 2014\, political intransigence combined with a severe drought to push São Paulo\, Brazil\, to the edge of a profound water crisis. In this paper\, I consider the response to the crisis on behalf of the state government\, focusing on both the way that the crisis was narrated as well as responded to. I consider the suite of actions taken to cope with scarcity\, focusing specifically on the state’s employment of pressure reductions in the water pipes as opposed to a formal rationing. I argue that despite the state government’s claims that only a small minority was going without water\, the reality was that residents of the urban periphery were facing consistent water shortages. I argue that these shortages are representative of a form of infrastructural politics\, in which the seemingly most technically viable solutions to the crisis exacerbated inequality due to the inequity that is built into the city’s hydrological infrastructure itself. I conclude by thinking of the city’s crisis as indicative of the changing nature of daily life in contemporary cities in the wake of climate change at both the local and global scale. \nMore on the full seminar series here. \nMore on the NOTRUC programme here. URL:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/acc-notruc-seminar-series-producing-water-scarcity-sao-paulo-brazil-2014-water-crisis-binding-politics-infrastructure/ LOCATION:Studio 1\, Environmental and Geographical Sciences Building\, Upper Campus\, UCT\, Cape Town\, South Africa CATEGORIES:Seminar Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Seminar-series_6-1.jpg GEO:-33.9375585;18.4721169 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Studio 1 Environmental and Geographical Sciences Building Upper Campus UCT Cape Town South Africa;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=Environmental and Geographical Sciences Building\, Upper Campus\, UCT:geo:18.4721169,-33.9375585 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20171108T150000 DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20171108T163000 DTSTAMP:20260416T000844 CREATED:20171012T111517Z LAST-MODIFIED:20171107T101233Z UID:10001940-1510153200-1510158600@nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page SUMMARY:ACC NOTRUC Seminar Series: Contesting the Coast: Infrastructure\, Ecology and Coastal Planning in New Orleans and the Mississippi River Delta - Cancelled DESCRIPTION:This seminar focuses on environmental politics and regional urban planning based on a paper by Dr Joshua Lewis and Dr Henrik Ernstson called Contesting the Coast: Infrastructure\, Ecology and Coastal Planning in New Orleans and the Mississippi River Delta. The paper is presented by Dr Henrik Ernstson who works at ACC and is affiliated to KTH Royal Institute of Technology and The University of Manchester. \nThe presentation will take place on 8 November 2017\, at 15:00 in Studio 3\, Environmental and Geographical Sciences Building\, Upper Campus\, University of Cape Town. \nPlease note this seminar has been cancelled.  \nABSTRACT \nFor over 150 years two major and capital-driven projects have re-worked the vast Louisiana coastal landscape. One has centered on ‘adapting’ the landscape to compete and increase for global maritime trade\, shortening the time distance from New Orleans to the Gulf of Mexico. The second has been about increasing the amount of space for real estate and urban development. However\, developing large-scale water infrastructure in a vast and complex ecosystem comes with unexpected social and ecological dynamics. Indeed\, our argument is that infrastructure has changed biophysical relations that have been stable for hundreds and thousands of years to fundamentally change how ecosystems operate and function with social and ecological effects. Based on in-depth historical research\, we develop an analytical repertoire for understanding historical interrelationships between water infrastructure\, regional environmental politics\, and large-scale coastal ecosystems. By further drawing on planning theory that has striven to de-center Habermasian consensus approaches (e.g.\, Vanessa Watson)\, this paper focuses on how knowledge controversies can help not only to ‘slow down reasoning’ (sensu Isabelle Stengers and Sarah Whatmore) to include more textured and situated ways of knowing the vast and complex Louisiana coastal landscape\, but also drives the making of proper political subjects (Jacques Rancière) that can interrupt and shape the wider administration of large-scale planning efforts. Our analysis shows how water infrastructure has produced persistent divisions in the body politic to hinder contemporary strategies to secure New Orleans and other settlements in the region from devastating storm surge and inundation. In a world under climate change\, when novel biophysical dynamics are constantly introduced\, we believe our textured case study can help to think about the new kind of politics we need to understand\, from the role of ‘ecological expertise’ (now siding increasingly with ‘engineering expertise’)\, to how ecological dynamics are shaping political subjectivities. \n  \nMORE ON JOSHUA LEWIS & HENRIK ERNSTSON  \nDr Joshua Lewis is based in New Orleans where he studies how infrastructure networks transform regional ecosystems and its effects on environmental justice and political processes. His historically grounded focus on the implementation and maintenance of large-scale water infrastructure connects between the local and the regional and across human geography\, ecology and sociology. He has also developed comprehensive vegetation studies in New Orleans (linked to a comparative study in Cape Town) to understand how hurricanes and urban development shape urban ecosystems and its often-unequal effect on different social groups. He completed his PhD at the Stockholm Resilience Centre at the Stockholm University in 2015 and he is now employed at Tulane University as Research Assistant Professor at the ByWater Institute where he is leading a novel ecological monitoring project in New Orleans that tracks ecological changes associated with a major green infrastructure and stormwater management project. With his studies in political ecology and urban ecology\, he also networks with partners in the Rockefeller Foundation’s 100 Resilient Cities program to deepen knowledge exchanges around urban ecology in partner cities. For more information\, go here: publications. \n  \nDr Henrik Ernstson is developing a situated approach to urban political ecology that combines critical geography\, urban infrastructure studies\, postcolonial urbanism and collaborations with designers\, artists and activists. He has lead various projects to study collective action\, environmental conflicts and urban ecosystem management in Cape Town\, New Orleans and Stockholm\, and infrastructure politics in Kampala. Currently he is finalizing two edited books for MIT Press and Routledge\, “Grounding Urban Natures” (Ernstson & Sörlin) and “Urban Political Ecology in the Anthropo-Obscene” (Ernstson & Swyngedouw). With Jacob von Heland he has created the research-based cinematic ethnography film “One Table Two Elephants\,” a film that richly surfaces the politics of nature\, race\, and history in a postcolonial city (71 minutes\, screening 2018). In 2017 he was awarded The AXA Research Award for recognition of his innovative work on urban sustainability in the global South\, which will fund a research group to study petro-urbanism and urban infrastructure in Luanda with South-South connections to Brazil and China. He holds a PhD in Natural Resource Management from Stockholm University (2008) with postdoctoral positions at Stanford University (2013-2015) and the University of Cape Town (2010-2011). He lives in Cape Town and works at the African Centre for Cities\, while holding a Research Fellowship at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm contributing to KTH Environmental Humanities Laboratory. In August 2017 he joined The University of Manchester as part-time Lecturer in Human Geography. For more information\, go here: publications and projects. \n  URL:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/acc-notruc-seminar-series-contesting-coast-infrastructure-ecology-coastal-planning-new-orleans-mississippi-river-delta/ LOCATION:Studio 3\, ENGEO Building\, Upper Campus. University of Cape Town\,\, Cape Town\, Western Cape\, 8001\, South Africa CATEGORIES:Seminar Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Seminar-series_4-1.jpg GEO:-33.930062;18.4138813 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Studio 3 ENGEO Building Upper Campus. University of Cape Town Cape Town Western Cape 8001 South Africa;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=ENGEO Building\, Upper Campus. University of Cape Town\,:geo:18.4138813,-33.930062 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20171101T030000 DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20171101T163000 DTSTAMP:20260416T000844 CREATED:20171004T134503Z LAST-MODIFIED:20171023T123921Z UID:10001938-1509505200-1509553800@nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page SUMMARY:ACC NOTRUC Seminar Series: Reflection is Part of Rehabilitation: Interventions in the History of a Land Occupation DESCRIPTION:The third seminar in the annual ACC NOTRUC Seminar Series is presented by Koni Benson on Reflection is Part of Rehabilitation: Interventions in the History of a Land Occupation at 15:00 in Studio 3\, Environmental and Geographical Sciences Building\, Upper Campus\, University of Cape Town. \nABSTRACT \nIn The Fire Next Time\, James Baldwin writes: “To accept one’s past- one’s history- is not the same thing as drowning in it; it is\, learning how to use it. An invented past can never be used; it cracks and crumbles under the pressures of life like clay in a season of drought.” This paper looks at the dynamics of invention and uses of history in the politics of a land occupation in Tafelsig\, Mitchell’s Plain\, where\, in May 2011\, over 5000 backyard shack dwellers occupied land to set up shacks on an empty field adjacent to the Kaptiensklip train station.  From an initial 5\,000 people the group dwindled to about 30 families who continued to defend their right to erect structures under which to sleep. The city offered them temporary relocation to Blikkiesdorp\, a dumping ground\, miles away from their families and support networks. What ensued was a round of court cases and appeals and\, eventual eviction. What started as a document to record the brutality of the Anti-Land Invasion Unit became a co-authored book\, Writing Out Loud: Interventions in the History of a Land Occupation written by Faeza Meyer and Koni Benson.   The quote in the title of this paper comes from this book which creatively tracked 545 days of occupation\, and raises questions about housing struggles\, activism\, situated solidarity\, racism\, writing\, and feminist collaborative methodologies of approaching African history.  The paper today will present a draft of a new introduction to the book\, with the aim of sparking a conversation about Baldwin’s proposition of not inventing but of reflecting and using hard ‘truths’ about the past in the present\, in this case\, building and engaging struggles against ongoing segregation and criminalization of landlessness in Cape Town. \n  \nMore on the full seminar series here. \nMore on the NOTRUC programme here. URL:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/acc-notruc-seminar-series-reflection-part-rehabilitation-interventions-history-land-occupation/ LOCATION:African Centre for Cities\, UCT Upper Campus\, Cape Town\, South Africa CATEGORIES:Seminar Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Seminar-series_4.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="African Centre for Cities":MAILTO:accurbanconference@gmail.com GEO:-33.9592646;18.4607236 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=African Centre for Cities UCT Upper Campus Cape Town South Africa;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=UCT Upper Campus:geo:18.4607236,-33.9592646 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20171025T150000 DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20171025T163000 DTSTAMP:20260416T000844 CREATED:20171004T133020Z LAST-MODIFIED:20171023T123828Z UID:10001937-1508943600-1508949000@nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page SUMMARY:ACC NOTRUC Seminar Series: ‘Nai-Rob-Me’ ‘Nai-Beg-Me’ ‘Nai-Shanty’: Historicizing Space-Subjectivity Connections in Nairobi from its Ruins DESCRIPTION:The second seminar in the annual ACC NOTRUC Seminar Series is presented by Wangui Kimari on ‘Nai-Rob-Me’ ‘Nai-Beg-Me’ ‘Nai-Shanty’: Historicizing Space-Subjectivity Connections in Nairobi from its Ruins at 15:o0 in Studio 1\, Environmental and Geographical Sciences Building\, Upper Campus\, University of Cape Town. \nABSTRACT\nWhat can personal histories from poor urban settlements in Nairobi tell us about the history and future of this city? How do these entangled life stories belie vogue narratives of phenomena such as rural-urban migration\, urban-development and postcoloniality\, while also shedding light on the durability of empire? Through an ethnographic and archival exploration of the poor urban settlement of Mathare\, located close to central Nairobi\, I argue that urban planning emerges from within an assemblage of imperial political\, social\, economic and ecological ideas and practices\, to produce what I term ecologies of exclusion. In essence\, these planning interventions\, materializing from within epistemologies of empire\, co-constitutively manifest as neglect and force in Nairobi’s margins to create and sustain inequality in certain neighbourhoods—its ruins. \nIn addition\, I show how\, both now and in the past\, this mode of urban governance conjures up and sustains negative stereotypical subjectivities about certain populations in order to legitimize inequalities within its formal spatial management practices. Furthermore\, contemporary colonial modes of urban planning require a constant and ever more forceful militarization of poor urban spaces. Notwithstanding this now naturalized violent space-subjectivity enterprise\, those who have long been categorized as the “robbers\,” “beggars” and “shanty dwellers” of Nairobi engage with and emerge from these ruins of empire through unexpected ethical and political projects. And\, from within their urban struggles\, they render alternative subjectivities of self and space that articulate more grounded narrations of the history and possible futures of this city. \nMORE ON WANGUI KIMARI \nWangui Kimari completed a PhD in Anthropology at York University\, Toronto in 2017. Her research draws attention to the historical connections between formal urban spatial management and police violence in the city. She is a FURS writing-up grant recipient and\, together with Peris Jones\, received an Antipode Scholar- Activist Project Award in 2016. Wangui is also the participatory action research coordinator for Mathare Social Justice Centre (MSJC)\, a grassroots organization that documents and advocates against human rights violations in Mathare – Nairobi’s second largest poor urban settlement. \n  \nMore on the full seminar series here. \nMore on the NOTRUC programme here. URL:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/acc-notruc-seminar-series-nai-rob-nai-beg-nai-shanty-historicizing-space-subjectivity-connections-nairobi-ruins/ LOCATION:Western Cape CATEGORIES:Seminar Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Seminar-series_2-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20171011T150000 DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20171207T163000 DTSTAMP:20260416T000844 CREATED:20171004T125331Z LAST-MODIFIED:20171013T090605Z UID:10001936-1507734000-1512664200@nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page SUMMARY:ACC NOTRUC Seminar Series: Thinking Emancipatory Change through In-depth Urban Case Studies DESCRIPTION:Cities are highly unequal places where histories of oppression is etched into the very machinery that makes them tick. This includes policies and regulations around who can trade and where\, the use of police or anti-eviction forces as an integral part of urban planning\, and how large-scale infrastructure projects can re-shape wider ecological dynamics to benefit some\, while putting others at risk. \nThis ACC seminar series stretches across these themes to focus broadly on urban politics through in-depth case studies of Cape Town\, Nairobi\, New Orleans and São Paulo provided by an interdisciplinary field of scholars from developmental economy\, critical anthropology\, feminist history and political ecology. \nThe seminar series has its origin in ACC’s Notations of Theories of Radical Urban Change (NOTRUC) project\, which will hold together the seminar series by facilitating a discussion with each presenter on what the political means in each study\, what possibilities the presenters see for empowerment and emancipatory change\, and what the detailed case study brings in thinking politics\, capitalism and emancipatory change in-and-through contemporary urban realities.\nAll seminars run from 15:00 to 16:30\n11 October 2017 – Studio 1\, Environmental and Geographical Sciences Building\, Upper Campus\, UCT\nPost-Apartheid Spatial Inequality: Obstacles of Land on Township Micro-Enterprise Formalisation by Dr Andrew Charman\, Sustainable Livelihoods Foundation\, Cape Town \n  \n25 October 2017 – Studio 1\, Environmental and Geographical Sciences Building\, Upper Campus\, UCT\n‘Nai-Rob-Me’ ‘Nai-Beg-Me’ ‘Nai-Shanty’: Historicizing Space-Subjectivity Connections in Nairobi from its Ruins by Dr Wangui Kimari\, Department of Anthropology\, York University\, Toronto (PhD thesis)\, and Mathare Social Justice Centre\, Nairobi. \n  \n1 November 2017 – Studio 3\, Environmental and Geographical Sciences Building\, Upper Campus\, UCT\n‘Reflection is Part of Rehabilitation:’ Interventions in the History of a Land Occupation by Dr Koni Benson\, Department of History\, University of Western Cape\, Cape Town. \n  \n8 November 2017– Studio 3\, Environmental and Geographical Sciences Building\, Upper Campus\, UCT\nContesting the Coast: Infrastructure\, Ecology and Coastal Planning in New Orleans and the Mississippi River Delta (written by Joshua Lewis and Henrik Ernstson) by Dr Henrik Ernstson\, Department of Geography\, The University of Manchester; KTH Environmental Humanities Laboratory\, KTH Royal Institute of Technology; and the African Centre for Cities\, University of Cape Town. \n  \n23 November – Studio 5\, Environmental and Geographical Sciences Building\, Upper Campus\, UCT\nDelft as a site of Productive Disjunctures: Tracing Modes of Accessing and Transforming the City in Delft\, Cape Town by Dr Suraya Scheba\, Environmental and Geographical Science Department and the African Centre for Cities\, University of Cape Town. \n  \n7 December 2017 – Environmental and Geographical Sciences Building\, Upper Campus\, UCT\nProducing water scarcity in São Paulo\, Brazil: The 2014 Water Crisis and the Binding Politics of Infrastructure by Dr Nate Millington\, Postdoctoral Research Fellow\, African Centre for Cities\, University of Cape Town. \n  \nStudents welcome\nWe encourage teachers to contact us to bring their classes to attend all or some of the seminars. We also invite all interested students\, scholars\, policy makers and activists. \nThe series is organized by Dr Suraya Scheba and Dr Henrik Ernstson from NOTRUC the seminars are supported by funds from the Swedish Research Council Formas (Dnr: 211-2011-1519\, MOVE\, NOTRUC) and form part of the Situated Ecologies platform and The Situated UPE Collective. \n  URL:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/acc-notruc-seminar-series-thinking-emancipatory-change-cape-town-nairobi-new-orleans/ LOCATION:African Centre for Cities\, UCT Upper Campus\, Cape Town\, South Africa CATEGORIES:Seminar Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Seminar-series_3.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="African Centre for Cities":MAILTO:accurbanconference@gmail.com GEO:-33.9592646;18.4607236 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=African Centre for Cities UCT Upper Campus Cape Town South Africa;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=UCT Upper Campus:geo:18.4607236,-33.9592646 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20171011T150000 DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20171011T163000 DTSTAMP:20260416T000844 CREATED:20171004T131219Z LAST-MODIFIED:20171011T115520Z UID:10001935-1507734000-1507739400@nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page SUMMARY:ACC NOTRUC Seminar Series: Post-Apartheid Spatial Inequality: Obstacles of Land in Township Micro-Enterprise Formalisation DESCRIPTION:The annual ACC NOTRUC Seminar Series kicks off with its first seminar by Andrew Charman on Post-Apartheid Spatial Inequality: Obstacles of Land in Township Micro-Enterprise Formalisation at 15:30 in Studio 1\, Environmental and Geographical Sciences Building\, Upper Campus\, University of Cape Town. \nABSTRACT \nThe presentation addresses the topic of micro-enterprise formalisation from a land perspective\, considering the various ways in which land shortage\, tenure insecurity\, land use management and land-related business regulations hinder the process of formalisation. The argument I advance will consider specific case-studies from the settlement of Ivory Park\, Johannesburg. The cases illustrates how informality (of land systems and business regulatory systems) presents both opportunities and constraints to economic growth. In making the case for formalisation\, I will argue that the land-related processes which people have to navigate to obtain business compliance resembles a Kafkaesque work: one in which the rules of nightmarishly complex\, incomprehensible and illogical. Partially as a result of these challenges\, the great majority of township informal micro-enterprises do not comply with land management systems requirements and gain few or no benefits. \nFrom the perspective of micro-entrepreneurs\, the research contents that the objectives of spatial justice and spatial resilience have little advanced since 1994. I will argue that this outcome can be attributed to the combination of inappropriate policy framing\, non-supportive legislation (especially at municipal level)\, the absence of political will to foster township economic growth and the persistence of apartheid era concerns with maintaining control to prevent ‘unruly’ social and economic activities. \nMORE ON ANDREW CHARMAN \nAndrew Charman is a Director of the Sustainable Livelihoods Foundation. He trained as a sociologist and development economist\, studying at the University of Cape Town and Cambridge University. Andrew has worked across the Southern African region on addressing development challenges in a broad range of contexts\, both rural and urban. His current work focuses on influencing policy towards micro-enterprises and promoting development interventions to foster growth in the township economy. \nAs a social science researcher seeking to better understand development constraints within the township economy\, I have used a range of qualitative and quantitative research methods\, including: methods to enhance stakeholder participation (participatory visual methods and action research); social-spatial methods to document specific business environments in their enterprise\, social and spatial dimensions; area based enterprise surveys to record and map the spatial dynamics of micro-enterprise activities; and qualitative in-depth interviews to comprehend the challenges that confront livelihood activities. \n  \nMore on the full seminar series here. \nMore on the NOTRUC programme here.  URL:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/acc-notruc-seminar-series-post-apartheid-spatial-inequality-obstacles-land-township-micro-enterprise-formalisation/ LOCATION:Studio 1\, Environmental and Geographical Sciences Building\, Upper Campus\, UCT\, Cape Town\, South Africa CATEGORIES:Seminar Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Seminar-series_1.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="African Centre for Cities":MAILTO:accurbanconference@gmail.com GEO:-33.9375585;18.4721169 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Studio 1 Environmental and Geographical Sciences Building Upper Campus UCT Cape Town South Africa;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=Environmental and Geographical Sciences Building\, Upper Campus\, UCT:geo:18.4721169,-33.9375585 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20170619T090000 DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20170623T130000 DTSTAMP:20260416T000844 CREATED:20170504T100946Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170504T102449Z UID:10001923-1497862800-1498222800@nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page SUMMARY:Annual PhD Seminar Series: Understanding Capitalism in Unequal Geographies DESCRIPTION:The third iteration of the annual PhD seminar series presented by ACC’s Notations on Theories of Radical Urban Change project (NOTRUC)\, lead by Henrik Ernstson and Edgar Pieterse\, on Democratic Practices focuses on “Understanding Capitalis in Unequal Geographies”. The seminar series is based on reading political philosophy with and against southern urbanism. It seeks to make an intervention in how we think about the emergent city and urbanization of the global south; to seek out and make explicit its emancipatory potential\, which often gets hidden or silenced\, either by overly dogmatic “Northern” frameworks\, “developmentalist” techno-managerial approaches; or a sense of defeat that an emancipatory horizon is not any longer possible.In 2017 the series focuses on capitalism and its wider structuration of cities\, bodies and subjectivities. It seeks to understand how classic Marxist critique and its extension into intersectional analysis can be thought with and against southern/postcolonial urban geographies to make visible contemporary struggles against exploitation.Key questions:  \n How does capitalism function in and through its differences across time\, space\, and social location?\n How does capitalism interact with and structure gender\, race\, and sexuality?\n How does this play out\, manifest and structure urban spaces and extended geographies of the south?\n What spaces\, discourses and collectivities can a critique of capitalism help to make visible as locations to struggle against interconnected assemblages and dispositifs of oppression? \nLecturers:Dr. Andrés Henao Castro\, University of Massachusetts\, Boston\nDr. Ashley Bohrer\, Hamilton College\, New York City\nDr. Henrik Ernstson\, KTH and University of Cape Town \nRead more here  URL:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/annual-phd-seminar-series-understanding-capitalism-unequal-geographies/ LOCATION:Seminar Room 1\, EGS Building\, Upper Campus\, University of Cape Town\, University of Cape Town\, Cape Town \, Western Cape\, South Africa CATEGORIES:Seminar Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/ACC_Democratic-Practices-in-Unequal-Geographies_2017.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Unnamed Organizer":MAILTO:henrik[DOT]ernstson[AT]uct[DOT]ac[DOT]za GEO:-33.9335226;18.6279539 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Seminar Room 1 EGS Building Upper Campus University of Cape Town University of Cape Town Cape Town Western Cape South Africa;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=University of Cape Town:geo:18.6279539,-33.9335226 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20170524T150000 DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20170524T163000 DTSTAMP:20260416T000844 CREATED:20170519T142059Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170523T091010Z UID:10001926-1495638000-1495643400@nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page SUMMARY:Socio-Spatial Transformation Seminar Series: TOD in Cape Town DESCRIPTION:Cape Town’s spatial organisation is characterised by fragmentation; expressed in a separation of residential and employment spaces and low density urban sprawl. This imposes a considerable cost on the State\, the environment and increases the socio-economic burden and exclusion of a great majority of the city’s residents. Greater synergy between urban development and mobility through densification and the provision of quality public transport is considered to be central to the spatial and social restructuring of the city. \nThe next seminar in the ACC’s Socio-Spatial Transformation Series will take a closer look at the City of Cape Town’s plans for Transit-Oriented Development (TOD). Leigh Stolworthy from the City’s Transport and Urban Development Authority (TUD) will present the City’s TOD approach and Prof. Roger Behrens from UCT’s Department of Civil Engineering will provide a response. \nSpeaker: Mr. Leigh Stolworthy – Manager: Innovation\, Research & Development\, City of Cape Town \nPLEASE NOTE: The starting time for the seminar was changed from 2pm to 3pm. URL:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/socio-spatial-transformation-seminar-series-tod-cape-town/ LOCATION:Studio 3\, ENGEO Building\, Upper Campus. University of Cape Town\,\, Cape Town\, Western Cape\, 8001\, South Africa CATEGORIES:Seminar Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Philippi_BRT-Station_Poster-1.jpg GEO:-33.930062;18.4138813 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Studio 3 ENGEO Building Upper Campus. University of Cape Town Cape Town Western Cape 8001 South Africa;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=ENGEO Building\, Upper Campus. University of Cape Town\,:geo:18.4138813,-33.930062 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20170419T150000 DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20170419T163000 DTSTAMP:20260416T000844 CREATED:20170413T120815Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170413T121612Z UID:10001921-1492614000-1492619400@nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page SUMMARY:Neighbourhoods\, NIMBYists and nobodies: the local politics of the Corridors of Freedom DESCRIPTION:Venue:  Seminar Room 3\, African Centre for Cities\nRSVP: Mercy Brown-Luthango at mercy.brown-luthango@uct.ac.za \nIn 2013\, Johannesburg’s former mayor\, Parks Tau\, announced the ambitious Corridors of Freedom plan to ‘restitch’ Johannesburg through a process of transit-oriented development led by the BRT and supported by a range of interventions intended to densify housing\, stimulate economic opportunities\, and develop mixed use activities. While the plan envisions large-scale transformation through long-term infrastructure investments\, the implementation of the COF has had an immediate and substantial impact at a local level. The various responses of Johannesburg communities have revealed localized governance dynamics and complex relationships with the City and the state\, speaking to significant socio-spatial politics in the city. \nBased on a survey and key informant interviews the seminar reflects on community organization (or lack thereof); the role of individual and organizational intermediaries; and tactics of engagement with the state. It focuses on three case studies in Johannesburg: Orange Grove and Norwood – a mixed middle class and low-income node on the Louis Botha Corridor; Westbury and Coronationville – a historically coloured area on Empire-Perth Corridor struggling with gang violence\, drug abuse and high levels of unemployment; and Marlboro South – an informal community living in reterritorialised industrial buildings adjacent to the historic township of Alexandra. We argue that the Corridors of Freedom project has had a substantial impact on local politics and has revealed significant social and spatial community dynamics across Johannesburg. \nThis seminar forms part of a research partnership between the AFD\, City of Johannesburg and the South African Research Chair in Spatial Analysis and City Planning at the University of the Witwatersrand. \nAbout The Speakers \nMargot Rubin is a senior researcher and faculty member in the University of the Witwatersrand (South African Research Chair in Spatial Analysis and City Planning) in Johannesburg. Since 2002\, she has worked as a researcher\, and policy and development consultant focusing on housing and urban development issues\, and has contributed to a number of research reports on behalf of the National Department of Housing\, the Johannesburg Development Agency\, SRK Engineering\, World Bank\, Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality and Urban LandMark. \nHer PhD in Urban Planning and Politics interrogates the role of the legal system in urban governance and its effect on the distribution of scarce resources and larger questions around democracy. She also holds a Masters in Urban Geography from the University of Pretoria\, an Honours degree in Geography and Environmental Studies and a Bachelor of Arts in Geography and Philosophy. Of late\, Margot has been writing about inner city regeneration\, housing policy and is currently engaged in work around mega housing projects and issues of gender and the city. \nAlli Appelbaum is researcher at the South African Research Chair in Spatial Analysis and City Planning (SA&CP) who holds a Masters in Regional and Urban Planning Studies (with distinction) from the London School of Economics and Political Science\, as well as a Bachelor of Arts Honours in Urban History (in the first class) and a Bachelor of Arts in Politics and History (with distinction)\, both from the University of Cape Town. \nHer research interests are broad\, meeting at the intersection of History\, Geography\, Urban Studies and Gender Studies. They include African urbanisms\, discourse analysis\, LGBT+ and gender issues\, urban poverty reduction\, informal trading\, gated communities and urban governance. She is passionate about research that has impacts both within and beyond academia. At SA&CP she is the project manager for the AFD-funded Corridors of Freedom project\, in which she is working with a team of researchers to aid the City of Johannesburg in their ambitious plan to ‘restitch’ Johannesburg\, level apartheid spatial inequality and forge a more public-transport-oriented city. \nBefore joining SA&CP\, Alli worked in consulting and the NGO sector. She received a Commonwealth Scholarship through the Canon Collins Trust in 2014 to study for her Masters at LSE and she was a member of the South Africa Washington International Programme in 2012. She was recognised by the Mail & Guardian as one of South Africa’s ‘Top 200 Young South Africans’ in 2016. URL:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/neighbourhoods-nimbyists-nobodies-local-politics-corridors-freedom/ LOCATION:African Centre for Cities\, UCT Upper Campus\, Cape Town\, South Africa CATEGORIES:Seminar Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/11021188_1671675486393608_303675625792915777_n.jpg GEO:-33.9592646;18.4607236 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=African Centre for Cities UCT Upper Campus Cape Town South Africa;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=UCT Upper Campus:geo:18.4607236,-33.9592646 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20170329T150000 DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20170329T163000 DTSTAMP:20260416T000844 CREATED:20170220T084636Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170220T084636Z UID:10001917-1490799600-1490805000@nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page SUMMARY:Luxified skies: How vertical urban housing became an elite preserve DESCRIPTION:The African Centre for Cities and the School of Architecture\, Planning and Geomatics are pleased to co-host a Special Lecture by Prof Stephen Graham entitled ‘Luxified skies: How vertical urban housing became an elite preserve’.\nAbstract\nThis talk is a call for critical urban research to address the vertical as well as horizontal aspects of social inequality. It seeks\, in particular\, to explore the important but neglected causal connection between the demonisation and dismantling of social housing towers constructed in many cities between the 1930s and 1970s and the contemporary proliferation of radically different housing towers produced for socio-economic elites. The argument begins with a critical discussion of the economistic orthodoxy\, derived from the work of Edward Glaeser\, that contemporary housing crises are best addressed by removing state intervention in housing production so that market-driven verticalisation can take place. The following two sections connect the rise of such orthodoxy with the ‘manufactured reality’—so central to neo-liberal urban orthodoxy—that vertical social housing must necessarily fail because it deterministically creates social pathology. The remainder of the paper explores in detail how the dominance of these narratives have been central to elite takeovers\, and ‘luxification’\, of the urban skies through the proliferation of condo towers for the superrich. Case studies are drawn from Vancouver\, New York\, London\, Mumbai and Guatemala City and the broader vertical cultural and visual politics of the process are explored. The discussion finishes by exploring the challenges involved in contesting\, and dismantling\, the hegemonic dominance of vertical housing by elite interests in contemporary cities.\nBio\nStephen Graham is Professor of Cities and Society at Newcastle University’s School of Architecture\, Planning and Landscape. He has an interdisciplinary background linking human geography\, urbanism and the sociology of technology. Since the early 1990s Prof. Graham has used this foundation to develop critical perspectives addressing how cities are being transformed through remarkable changes in infrastructure\, mobility\, digital media\, surveillance\, security\, militarism and verticality. His books include Splintering Urbanism; Telecommunications and the City (both with Simon Marvin); the Cybercities Reader; Cities\, War and Terrorism; Disrupted Cities: When Infrastructures Fail; and Infrastructural Lives (with Colin McFarlane). Prof Graham’s 2011 book Cities Under Siege: The New Military Urbanism was nominated for the Orwell Prize in political writing and was the Guardian’s book of the week. His new book – Vertical: The City From Satellites to Bunkers (Verso) – was published in November 2016. Another Guardian book of the week\, it was in the books of the year lists of both the FT and the Observer. URL:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/luxified-skies-vertical-urban-housing-became-elite-preserve/ LOCATION:Studio 3\, ENGEO Building\, Upper Campus. University of Cape Town\,\, Cape Town\, Western Cape\, 8001\, South Africa CATEGORIES:Seminar Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/IMG_5713_1024.jpeg GEO:-33.930062;18.4138813 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Studio 3 ENGEO Building Upper Campus. University of Cape Town Cape Town Western Cape 8001 South Africa;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=ENGEO Building\, Upper Campus. University of Cape Town\,:geo:18.4138813,-33.930062 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20170315T160000 DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20170315T173000 DTSTAMP:20260416T000844 CREATED:20170301T120138Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170302T121520Z UID:10001919-1489593600-1489599000@nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page SUMMARY:What must be our urban question? Reflections on Contemporary Urban Knowledge from Delhi DESCRIPTION:ACC is delighted to be hosting Gautam Bhan from the Indian Institute of Human Settlements who will be giving a seminar as part of our socio-spatial transformations seminar series. The seminar is entitled ‘What must be our urban question? Reflections on Contemporary Urban Knowledge from Delhi’. \nAbout\nThe fact of urbanization no longer needs assertion. Today\, our problem is of an excess of speech. What do we talk about when we talk about the urban? Cities? Built Form? Economic Agglomerations? Violence? Modernity? Democracy? Nature? Infrastructure? Transport? As each of us – citizens\, theorists\, practitioners\, policy makers – seeks to grasp the urban\, we find ourselves navigating multiple and often competing visions of cities that seek to be smart\, inclusive\, resilient\, sustainable\, world-class\, ordinary\, and global all at once.\n This talk reflects on how we must think of the urban in the moment of its emergence. It asks: what are the knowledge systems\, cultures and practices that we need to in order live\, survive and intervene into our city-regions?  It does so at a moment when the urban question is once again up for global debate\, challenged to cross disciplines\, offer knowledge for urgent and transformative practice to address a maddening diversity of issues from inequality to sustainability. It does so\, in line with new theoretical thinking from the “south\,” by beginning and rooting from place\, asking questions of urban theory and practice from one its most challenging sites: the city of New Delhi. In doing so\, it also takes on the task of imagining what a decolonisation of urban studies can look like.\nBio \nGautam Bhan has a BA from Amherst College and an MA from the University of Chicago in urban sociology. He has worked as a Research Fellow at the Society for Applied Studies\, New Delhi\, where is his first work was on gender and access to health in informal urban settlements [The Effect of Maternal Education on Gender Bias in Care-seeking for common childhood illnesses\, Social Science and Medicine\, Vol. 60 (4)\, 2005] and later focused on urban poverty in Indian cities and particularly on questions of eviction\, resettlement and poverty within urban development. \nHe is the author of Swept off the Map: Surviving Eviction and Resettlement in Delhi [2005; Hindi Translation 2009] and most recently of This is Not the City I Once Knew: Evictions\, Urban Citizenship and the Right to the City in Millennial Delhi (Environment & Urbanisation\, Vol. 21 (1)\, 2009). He is also a columnist with the Indian Express\, one of India’s leading English language newspapers\, where he writes on urbanisation and urban issues in India. His ongoing research at Berkeley focuses on the changing politics of citizenship and poverty in post-liberalisation Indian cities. He was awarded the prestigious Berkeley Fellowship for 2008-2012 to support his doctoral studies. He is also currently a 2009 IDRF fellow of the Social Science Research Council\, New York. URL:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/must-urban-question-reflections-contemporary-urban-knowledge-delhi/ LOCATION:Studio 3\, ENGEO Building\, Upper Campus. University of Cape Town\,\, Cape Town\, Western Cape\, 8001\, South Africa CATEGORIES:Seminar Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/sociospatial.jpg GEO:-33.930062;18.4138813 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Studio 3 ENGEO Building Upper Campus. University of Cape Town Cape Town Western Cape 8001 South Africa;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=ENGEO Building\, Upper Campus. University of Cape Town\,:geo:18.4138813,-33.930062 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20170208T150000 DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20170208T163000 DTSTAMP:20260416T000844 CREATED:20170127T122857Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170131T101906Z UID:10001915-1486566000-1486571400@nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page SUMMARY:Theorizing Urbanization: the Universal and the Particular in Question DESCRIPTION:The African Centre for Cities is pleased to announce it’s first Special Lecture for 2017. We will be hosting Prof Kevin Cox\, who will be presenting a lecture on ‘Theorizing Urbanization: The Universal and the Particular in Question’.\nAbstract \nOver the last twenty-five years or so urban studies has witnessed increasing skepticism towards universalizing claims and a greater interest in the particularizing. Recent arguments for a view from the global South exemplify this. This raises the question of what the relationship between universalizing and particularizing tendencies might be. This is explored firstly through an exploration of how the two might be reconciled. Two case studies then follow. One focuses on the ‘view from the South’ controversy; and the other on the politics of urban development in the US and in Western Europe and a subsequent trans-Atlantic divide. \nBio \nKEVIN R. COX\, is Emeritus Distinguished University Professor of Geography at the Ohio State University. His major research interests include the politics of urban and regional development\, geographic thought and South Africa. He is the author of numerous books\, the most recent of which are The Politics of Urban and Regional Development and the American Exception (2016) and Making Human Geography (2014.) He has been a Guggenheim Fellow and the recipient of two awards from the Association of American Geographers\, including one for distinguished scholarship. More information can be found on his website\, Unfashionable Geographies\, at https://kevinrcox.wordpress.com/. \n  URL:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/theorizing-urbanization-beyond-binaries/ LOCATION:Studio 3\, ENGEO Building\, Upper Campus. University of Cape Town\,\, Cape Town\, Western Cape\, 8001\, South Africa CATEGORIES:Lectures,Seminar Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/image.png GEO:-33.930062;18.4138813 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Studio 3 ENGEO Building Upper Campus. University of Cape Town Cape Town Western Cape 8001 South Africa;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=ENGEO Building\, Upper Campus. University of Cape Town\,:geo:18.4138813,-33.930062 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR