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SUMMARY:MEAN STREETS book launch
DESCRIPTION:The ACC is proud to be associated with the publication of a major new title in southern African studies. \nMean Streets: Migration\, Xenophobia and Informality in South Africa\, edited by ACC partners Jonathan Crush\, Abel Chikanda and Caroline Skinner\, demonstrates powerfully that some of the most resourceful entrepreneurs in the South African informal economy are migrants and refugees. Yet far from being lauded\, they take their life into their hands when they trade on South Africa’s “mean streets”. \nThirteen chapters draw attention to the positive economic contributions which migrants make to their adopted country. The book includes studies of: the creation of agglomeration economies in Jeppe and Ivory Park in Johannesburg; guanxi networks of Chinese entrepreneurs; competition and cooperation among Somali shop owners; cross-border informal traders; informal transport operators between South Africa and Zimbabwe. Migrant entrepreneurship is shown to involve generating employment\, paying rents\, providing cheaper goods to poor consumers\, and supporting formal sector wholesalers and retailers. Mean Streets also highlights the xenophobic responses to migrant and refugee entrepreneurs and the challenges they face in running a successful business on the streets.
URL:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/mean-streets-book-launch/
LOCATION:Book Lounge\, 71 Roeland Street\, Cape Town\, Western Cape\, 8001\, South Africa
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SUMMARY:BOOK LAUNCH: Africa's Urban Revolution
DESCRIPTION:UCT and The Book Lounge will be hosting the launch of Africa’s Urban Revolution\, the new volume edited by Susan Parnell and Edgar Pieterse
URL:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/book-launch-africas-urban-revolution/
LOCATION:Book Lounge\, 71 Roeland Street\, Cape Town\, Western Cape\, 8001\, South Africa
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SUMMARY:Cityscapes #4: Thinking relationally about north and south
DESCRIPTION:Photographer Jodi Bieber’s portrait of a member of the Dube Young Blood Shotokan Karate Club in Soweto introduces the focus of the fourth issue of Cityscapes: Soweto. Is it a viable model of what happens after informality? The question does not propose a simple answer. Soweto’s redevelopment is uneven. There are malls\, loft developments\, a theatre. More significantly\, there are roads and basic services. Change is afoot\, but not for all. Cityscapes\, a magazine project of the African Centre for Cities edited by Sean O’Toole and Tau Tavengwa\, offers an in-depth look at this emergent edge city on the southern periphery of Johannesburg. Also in the new fourth issue: a grouped series of reports\, essays and interviews tracing a zigzag path connecting Tel Aviv to Naples to Berlin to Guangzhou\, all cities where African migrants are a feature of the urban matrix. There is a speculative logic at work in this grouping. In her conversation with Gautam Bhan in this issue\, urban theorist Ananya Roy conjectures\, “what does it mean for us to think relationally about the north and south\, recognising that these are connected geographies in all sorts of ways?”
URL:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/cityscapes-4-thinking-relationally-north-south/
LOCATION:Book Lounge\, 71 Roeland Street\, Cape Town\, Western Cape\, 8001\, South Africa
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