BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//African Centre for Cities - ECPv6.7.0//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH 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:20130101T000000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20130614T130000 DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20130614T170000 DTSTAMP:20260415T005155 CREATED:20130826T095006Z LAST-MODIFIED:20130826T103440Z UID:10001841-1371214800-1371229200@nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page SUMMARY:Food Security and Place-Based Governance DESCRIPTION:When: Jun 27\, 2013 (1pm)\nWhere: Rm 2.27\, Davies Room\, Engeo Building\, Upper Campus\, UCT\, Cape Town\nTraditional responses to food insecurity are unable to mitigate the growing challenge of limited and inappropriate food access. Although generally overlooked in traditional approaches to food security\, this challenge is felt most severely in cities\, particularly African cities. The second urban transition calls for different approaches to a number of interlinked urban challenges. Food insecurity is one such challenge. Alternative approaches to the urban food challenge and particularly to urban food governance are emerging. However\, while some cities in the South are acting on this challenge\, traditional aspatial and scale-neutral views of food security dominate. Innovative programmatic responses to food insecurity are emerging but are generally located in Northern cities. While the programmes may speak to Northern urban issues\, the new urban food governance structures that enable such programmes offer opportunities for Southern cities. These governance structures have the potential to enable scale-centred interventions that respond to and mitigate the food insecurity challenge in place- appropriate ways. Using the concept of Alternative Food Geographies this talk will provide an analysis of food security responses focussing specifically on how these are enabling new forms of urban food governance and how food\, food security and the city coalesce\, enabling appropriate actions. \nGareth Haysom is a PhD candidate within the African Food Security Urban Network (AFSUN)\, a programme within the African Centre for Cities at the University of Cape Town. Gareth’s work has focussed on the interface between food and sustainability\, considering challenges within the broader food system. More recently work has focussed specifically on how the food/sustainability nexus intersects with urban governance in Southern Africa. URL:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/food-security-and-place-based-governance/ LOCATION:UCT\, Seminar Room 1 Chemical Engineering\, UCT Upper Campus\, Cape Town\, Western Cape\, South Africa CATEGORIES:Lectures ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/food_security_farming_agriculture_asia_22.jpg GEO:-33.9248685;18.4240553 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=UCT Seminar Room 1 Chemical Engineering UCT Upper Campus Cape Town Western Cape South Africa;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=Seminar Room 1 Chemical Engineering\, UCT Upper Campus\, Cape Town:geo:18.4240553,-33.9248685 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20130807T130000 DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20130807T170000 DTSTAMP:20260415T005155 CREATED:20130822T080645Z LAST-MODIFIED:20130822T093414Z UID:10001840-1375880400-1375894800@nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page SUMMARY:Producing Luanda DESCRIPTION:When: Aug 7\, 2013 (1pm)\nWhere: Studio 5\, Engeo Building\, UCT\, Cape Town \nAntonio Tomas is a research fellow at Makerere Institute of Social Research\, in Kampala. He received his doctoral degree in Anthropology from Columbia University\, in New York. He is the author of a study on the African nationalist Amílcar Cabral titled O Fazedor de Utopias: Uma Biografia de Amílcar (The Maker of Utopias: A Biography of Amilcar Cabral (Lisbon [Portugal]; Praia [Cape Verde]\, Tinta da China; Spleen\, 2007; 2008). For ten years he has been a regular contributor to Angolan newspapers\, and a selection of his journalistic writings has been published under the title Poligrafia: Das Páginas de Jornais Angolanos (Poligrafia: from the Pages of Angolan Newspapers\, Luanda\, Casa das Ideias\, 2010). In 2012\, he worked as visiting professor at École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales\, in Paris. Currently\, he is writing a book tentatively called In the skin of the city: Luanda\, or the dialectics of spatial transformation. URL:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/producing-luanda/ LOCATION:UCT\, Seminar Room 1 Chemical Engineering\, UCT Upper Campus\, Cape Town\, Western Cape\, South Africa CATEGORIES:Lectures ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Luanda_Panorama-e1377167105204.jpg GEO:-33.9248685;18.4240553 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=UCT Seminar Room 1 Chemical Engineering UCT Upper Campus Cape Town Western Cape South Africa;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=Seminar Room 1 Chemical Engineering\, UCT Upper Campus\, Cape Town:geo:18.4240553,-33.9248685 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20130801 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20130802 DTSTAMP:20260415T005155 CREATED:20130820T075431Z LAST-MODIFIED:20130822T085848Z UID:10001839-1375315200-1375401599@nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page SUMMARY:Informal Settlement Upgrading DESCRIPTION:When: Aug 21\, 2013 (1pm)\nWhere: Rm 2.27\, Davies Room\, Engeo Building\, Upper Campus\, UCT\, Cape Town \n Speakers: Community leaders\, Informal Settlement Network members\, Community Organisation Resource Centre\, and Shack/Slum Dwellers International \n City planning and growth strategies in South Africa have quite simply been unable to account effectively for the prevalence of informal shelter and employment strategies. Grassroots strategies for generating alternative planning approaches are subject to significant amounts of attention in theory\, yet the precise approaches and mechanics of these strategies in practice are still not well understood. The role of organizing communities that experience informality in South African cities is perhaps one of the most under-explored mechanisms for achieving more inclusive city growth trajectories.The South African Alliance is made up of two social movements (Federation of the Urban Poor\, Informal Settlement Network) and NGO professional supporters (Community Organisation Resource Centre\, iKhayalami\, uTshani Fund). These actors have been working to include the poor in urban development in South Africa since the end of Apartheid. This includes the largest civil society housing initiative in the democratic era: over 15\,000 houses built through government subsidies channeled directly to low-income communities linked to the Federation of the Urban Poor and initiating a strong practice based model on informal settlement upgrading.This brown bag seminar will focus on the Alliance’s work on in situ informal settlement upgrading\, through a presentation of recent people-led projects. These have been designed to shift the policy space around provision of land\, services\, and housing for the poor in the city of Cape Town. Presenters will include community leaders\, Informal Settlement Network members\, Community Organisation Resource Centre\, and Shack/Slum Dwellers International. URL:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/informal-settlement-upgrading/ LOCATION:UCT\, Seminar Room 1 Chemical Engineering\, UCT Upper Campus\, Cape Town\, Western Cape\, South Africa CATEGORIES:Lectures ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Screen-Shot-2013-08-22-at-11.25.19-AM-e1377163676372.jpg GEO:-33.9248685;18.4240553 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=UCT Seminar Room 1 Chemical Engineering UCT Upper Campus Cape Town Western Cape South Africa;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=Seminar Room 1 Chemical Engineering\, UCT Upper Campus\, Cape Town:geo:18.4240553,-33.9248685 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20131129T010000 DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20131129T170000 DTSTAMP:20260415T005155 CREATED:20130524T054228Z LAST-MODIFIED:20131010T142243Z UID:10001838-1385686800-1385744400@nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page SUMMARY:Methods and modalities of activism DESCRIPTION:The Social Justice Coalition (SJC) is a Khayelitsha based social movement and advocacy group campaigning for improved conditions in informal settlements and the promotion of more inclusive and equitable South African cities.   Over the past four years the organisation has moved from responding to xenophobic violence to local government delivery. Along the way\, it has learnt important lessons about how best to use people’s power across historic divides to promote meaningful and sustainable urban change. \nGavin Silber\, a founding member and current Deputy General-Secretary of the SJC will reflect on the SJC’s trajectory of activism\, highlighting the methods\, modes\, and roles of activism in addressing urban development challenges in Cape Town. In particular\, he will focus on the lessons which can be learned from the SJC’s notable campaign for improved sanitation. URL:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/methods-and-modalities-of-activism-reflecting-on-the-sjc-experience/ LOCATION:UCT Engineering\, Rm 2.27\, Davies Room\, Engeo Building\, Upper Campus\, UCT \, 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/2013/05/public.jpeg GEO:-33.9248685;18.4240553 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=UCT Engineering Rm 2.27 Davies Room Engeo Building Upper Campus UCT Cape Town Western Cape South Africa;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=Rm 2.27\, Davies Room\, Engeo Building\, Upper Campus\, UCT:geo:18.4240553,-33.9248685 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20130815 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20130817 DTSTAMP:20260415T005155 CREATED:20130524T053658Z LAST-MODIFIED:20130822T085808Z UID:10001837-1376524800-1376697599@nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page SUMMARY:MPhil in Urban Infrastructure DESCRIPTION:Convener: Dr. M Brown-Luthango. \n20 HEQF credits at level 9. \nCourse outline: Sustainable livelihood\, participation\, governance\, partnerships\, development action plans\, survey methods. URL:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/mphil-in-urban-infrastructure-community-development-end5043z/ LOCATION:UCT\, Seminar Room 1 Chemical Engineering\, UCT Upper Campus\, Cape Town\, Western Cape\, South Africa CATEGORIES:Lectures ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/africancentreforcities.jpeg GEO:-33.9248685;18.4240553 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=UCT Seminar Room 1 Chemical Engineering UCT Upper Campus Cape Town Western Cape South Africa;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=Seminar Room 1 Chemical Engineering\, UCT Upper Campus\, Cape Town:geo:18.4240553,-33.9248685 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20131014T150000 DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20131028T170000 DTSTAMP:20260415T005155 CREATED:20130517T071810Z LAST-MODIFIED:20131110T071550Z UID:10001836-1381762800-1382979600@nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page SUMMARY:Prof. Ananya Roy — Gray Areas DESCRIPTION:In the lexicon of American urban policy\, community development is a prominent force. This talk\, based on an essay co-authored with Stuart Schrader and Emma Shaw Crane\, provides a global history of community development.  It shows how\, in the 1960s\, an impending sense of urban crisis\, what was perceived to be an “apartheid” of race and income\, conjoined with American geopolitical concerns about wars of insurgency in the global South to produce a field of ideas and practices focused on pacification\, participation\, and poverty. Such programs reveal how the management of poverty is articulated with pacification and punitive regulation\, not just at a moment of neoliberalism but also in liberal government and its struggles with racial difference.  Community development though was more than a bureaucracy of poverty. Multiple mobilizations and movements sought to challenge racial subjugation.  From Alinsky-style direct action to the anti-colonial imaginary of the Black Panther Party\, poor people’s movements also reshaped urban policy and community development in the turbulent American 1960s. (full paper is available on request\, please email Pippin.Anderson@uct.ac.za) \nAbout the Speaker: Ananya Roy is Professor of City and Regional Planning and Distinguished Chair of Global Poverty and Practice at the University of California\, Berkeley.  Her research\, teaching\, and public scholarship is concerned with global urbanism\, territories of poverty\, the politics of postcolonial development. Roy’s most recent books include “Poverty Capital: Microfinance and the Making of Development” and “Worlding Cities: Asian Experiments and the Art of Being Global.” \n____________________________________________________________________ \nAnanya Roy’s visit to South Africa is enabled by the School of Architecture and Planning at Wits University\, which invited her to deliver the bi-annual Rusty Bernstein Memorial Lecture on 16 May 2013 URL:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/prof-ananya-roy-gray-areas-the-war-on-poverty-at-home-and-abroad/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/mphil.jpeg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR