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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 
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LOCATION:Davies Reading Room\, Room 2.27\, Environmental and Geographical Science\, UCT\, Cape Town\, Western Cape\, 8000\, South Africa
CATEGORIES:Seminar Series
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SUMMARY:Knowledge in Action for Urban Equality (KNOW): The challenges of translocal knowledge co-production
DESCRIPTION:Join ACC as we host Caren Levy\, Camila Cocina and Alex Frediani from KNOW on Friday\, 15 November\, 12:30 to 14:00\, in the Davies Reading Room\, Environmental and Geographical Sciences Building\, Upper Campus\, UCT. \nThis talk\, chaired by Vanessa Watson will introduce the KNOW programme\, a 4-year research and capacity building programme funded by GCRF which works with 13 organisation across 12 cities in Africa\, Asia and Latin America.  The talk will reflect on its partnerships\, operational principles and the interface between research and practice.  It will draw on the KNOW work done so far as it approaches the end of its second year.  We hope that this session will open up an opportunity to exchange experiences of collaborative initiatives addressing urban equality. \nWHEN: Friday\, 15 November 2019\nTIME: 12:30 to 14:00\nVENUE: Davies Reading Room\, Environmental and Geographical Science Building\, Upper Campus\, UCT \n  \nBIOGRAPHIES \nCaren Levy is the Principal Investigator (PI) on the GCRF funded project\, Knowledge in Action for Urban Equality (KNOW)\, and Professor of Transformative Urban Planning at The Bartlett Development Planning Unit\, UCL. Her research focuses on community-led approaches to planning and governance of transport and infrastructure\, housing and land in cities in the global South. Levy has a special interest in the institutionalisation of social justice in policy and planning\, particularly related to the cross-cutting issues of gender\, diversity\, and environment. She has 35 years’ experience of teaching\, research\, training and consultancy\, developing innovatory approaches to planning methodology\, planning education and capacity-building. Her works engages with communities\, governments and international organisations both in London and abroad in a range of countries in Africa\, Asia\, Latin America\, and the Middle East. \nCamila Cocina is a Research Fellow in the working package ‘Translating Research into Practice’ for KNOW. We focus on investigating the challenges of knowledge translation processes at the global and local levels\, and support city research partners to influence policy and planning practices. Cocina is an urbanist and architect with a PhD in Development Planning and MSc Building & Urban Design in Development\, from The Bartlett Development Planning Unit\, University College London. She’s worked as a practitioner\, researcher\, and teacher in Chile and the UK\, with experience of fieldwork and teaching in Latin America\, Asia\, Europe\, and Africa. Her practice has focused primarily on urban development\, housing policies\, participatory urban design\, urban informality\, and housing reconstruction; and she’s worked both in academic institutions as well as in independent NGOs. She has a special interest in linking research\, advocacy\, planning practices\, and policies. Cocina’s PhD research focused on the challenges faced by housing policies in reducing urban inequalities\, in the Chilean context. \nAlex Frediani is a Senior Lecturer at The Bartlett Development Planning Unit. He also co-direct the MSc in Social Development Practice and direct the DPUs communications. In KNOW\, he leadsWork Package 4\, which focuses on translating research into practice to advance urban equality. His research interests include the application of Amartya Sen’s Capability Approach in development practice; participatory planning and design; as well as housing and informal settlement upgrading. Frediani has collaborated with academics and grassroots collectives in Brazil\, Ecuador\, Ghana\, Nigeria\, Sierra Leone\, Kenya\, and South Africa. Apart from research and action learning initiatives\, he has provided consultancy for international development donors and agencies such as Oxfam\, Comic Relief\, Practical Action and UNDP. He is a founding and board member of the Sierra Leone Urban Research Centre (SLURC). He is also on the board of Habitat International Coalition and an associate of Architecture Sans Frontières–UK. \n 
URL:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/knowledge-in-action-for-urban-equality-know-the-challenges-of-translocal-knowledge-co-production/
LOCATION:Davies Reading Room\, Room 2.27\, Environmental and Geographical Science\, UCT\, Cape Town\, Western Cape\, 8000\, South Africa
CATEGORIES:Conversation
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DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20191107T190000
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SUMMARY:MPhil Southern Urbanism - a celebration of the first cohort
DESCRIPTION:Join us to celebrate and share the work of the first cohort of MPhil Southern Urbanism graduates\, along with their first year colleagues. \nWHEN: Thursday\, 7 November\nTIME: 14:00 to 17:00 with drinks and snacks afterwards\nVENUE: Davies Reading Room\, EGS Building\, UCT\nRSVP by Monday 4 November\, to khaya.salman@uct.ac.za \nPROGRAMME\nReflections on Thesis Work: 2nd Year Graduating MPhil Students\n \n\nThesis research artefacts\nFieldwork stories\nArguments and contributions\nFinding a voice in urban studies\n\nDiscussion \nForthcoming Thesis Research: 1st Year Students\n \nDiscussants: \nAnna Selmeczi – Mphil Southern Urbanisms Convenor\nSophie Oldfield – Professor of Urban Studies\nEdgar Pieterse – Director ACC\, Professor of Urban Policy
URL:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/mphil-southern-urbanism-a-celebration-of-the-first-cohort/
LOCATION:Davies Reading Room\, Room 2.27\, Environmental and Geographical Science\, UCT\, Cape Town\, Western Cape\, 8000\, South Africa
CATEGORIES:Conversation
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SUMMARY:The city/psychosis nexus beyond epidemiology and social constructivism
DESCRIPTION:Visiting scholar Ola Söderström from University of Neuchâtel\, Switzerland presents a lecture entitled: The city/psychosis nexus beyond epidemiology and social constructivism on Tuesday\, 15 October from 12:30 to 14:00. \nABSTRACT\nMy talk draws on a recently completed interdisciplinary research project involving geographers\, psychiatrists and linguists in the study of the relations between urban living and psychosis. Our research originates in the now long-standing observation that there is a higher prevalence of cases of psychosis in dense urban areas. Particularly interesting in the context of this talk and discussion at the ACC is that recent epidemiological studies point to the fact that this phenomenon is generally not observed in cities of the Global South. What was for long described as a universal relation between mental health and urbanism has now been provincialized. \nMy aim will be first to explain why the question of the city/psychosis nexus has recently come to the fore not only in epidemiological research in psychiatry but also in the more-than-constructivist approaches of scholars trying to identify and practice new alliances between the life and the social sciences. Second\, I will walk you through two moments – an epistemic and an ontological one – in our research process to describe how we explored such new alliances by co-designing and co-experimenting across disciplines. Thirdly\, I will discuss our research findings and how they emerged from methodological triangulations. I will conclude by evoking present developments of this interdisciplinary process and how they relate to contemporary discussions on the study of bio-social entanglements. \nABOUT\nOla Söderström is professor of social and cultural geography at the University of Neuchâtel\, Switzerland. His work draws on science and technology studies\, postcolonial urban studies and visual studies. His research has notably analysed the role of visual representations in urban planning\, urban policy mobilities in cities of the Global South\, smart urbanism\, and the relations between urban living and psychosis. His books and edited collections include: Des images pour agir. Le visuel en urbanisme\, Payot\, 2000; Cities in Relations. Trajectories of Urban Development in Hanoi and Ouagadougou\, Wiley-Blackwell\, 2014; Reshaping Cities. How Global Mobility Transforms Architecture and Urban Forms\, Routledge\, 2009 (co-edited with Michael Guggenheim); Critical Mobilities\, Routledge\, 2013 (co-edited with Shalini Randeria\, Didier Ruedin\, Gianni D’Amato and Francesco Panese). \nWHEN: Tuesday\, 15 October 2019 \nTIME: 12:30 to 14:00 \nVENUE: Davies Reading Room\, Environmental and Geographical Science Building\, Upper Campus\, UCT
URL:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/the-city-psychosis-nexus-beyond-epidemiology-and-social-constructivism/
LOCATION:Davies Reading Room\, Room 2.27\, Environmental and Geographical Science\, UCT\, Cape Town\, Western Cape\, 8000\, South Africa
CATEGORIES:Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20191008T150000
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SUMMARY:Collapse: Grey development and fake buildings in Nairobi
DESCRIPTION:Visiting scholar Constance Smith from Social Anthropology at The University of Manchester presents Collapse: Grey development and fake buildings in Nairobi\, on Tuesday\, 8 October 2019\, at 15:00. \nABSTRACT\nNairobi has recently experienced a spate of residential tower block collapses resulting in significant casualties. In an attempt to understand this precarious architecture\, I juxtapose two different\, yet linked\, construction booms currently reshaping the city. The Kenyan government development rubric Vision 2030 is re-envisioning Nairobi as a ‘world class’ city of spectacular infrastructure and gleaming high-rise buildings. At the same time\, ad hoc property speculation is constructing high density\, poor-quality tower blocks that pose a high risk of structural failure; buildings that Nairobians often describe as ‘fake’. Drawing on literature in African Studies about the power of fakes and the counterfeit\, as well as on recent debates in Urban Studies problematising informality\, I reflect on Nairobi’s drastic landscape of architectural failure\, and how this is entangled with larger processes of urban transformation. \nABOUT\nConstance Smith is a UKRI Future Leader Fellow in Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester\, UK\, where she also works within the Urban Institute. Her work explores the social\, political and material dynamics of urban landscapes in times of transformation. She has done fieldwork in Nairobi\, Addis Ababa\, Kampala and London. Her new book\, Nairobi in the Making: Landscapes of time and urban belonging (James Currey\, 2019) explores how the residues of colonial architecture shape self-making and city-making in contemporary Nairobi. \nWHEN: Tuesday\, 8 October 2019 \nTIME: 15:00 – 16:30 \nVENUE: Davies Reading Room\, Environmental and Geographical Science Building\, Upper Campus\, UCT
URL:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/collapse-grey-development-and-fake-buildings-in-nairobi/
LOCATION:Davies Reading Room\, Room 2.27\, Environmental and Geographical Science\, UCT\, Cape Town\, Western Cape\, 8000\, South Africa
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20190619T123000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20190619T140000
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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
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20150730T130000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20150730T140000
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SUMMARY:UN Sustainable Development Goals Target 11: Urban Indicators Pilot
DESCRIPTION:UN Sustainable Development Goals Target 11: Urban Indicators Pilot – City of Cape Town \n  \n \n  \nThis pilot study sought to test the proposed indicators for Goal 11 of the UN Sustainable Development Goals that succeed the Millennium Development Goals. Goal 11 marks the first explicit urban goal: To Make Cities and Human Settlements inclusive\, safe\, resilient and sustainable. The ACC was appointed by Mistra Urban Futures to test the Goal 11 indicators in Cape Town and partnered with Palmer Development Group (PDG) and the City of Cape Town (CCT) to do so\, as part of a larger pilot process in five cities worldwide. The pilot tested each proposed indicator against four parameters: data availability\, measurability\, utility and custodianship. It used an indicator specification format with which PDG engaged with a CCT team\, who in turn engaged with internal CCT stakeholders on the feasibility and usefulness of the indicators and collected data from them for analysis. The findings show that there are limitations regarding the informal context that characterises significant facets of the CCT\, the type of data that the CCT has at its disposal and the regularity with which it is able to access household and population data. However\, the majority of primary indicators are measurable and valuable and with improved collaboration with Statistics South Africa these will be increasingly measurable. \nAcross the five cities it emerged that there are great gaps and concerns\, in terms of universality\, common international standards and coherence of reporting mechanisms. The pilot also demonstrated the tension in striking a balance between reducing the number of indicators and increasing the policy relevance. The CCT found that being part of the research pilot was valuable for the CCT in a range of ways including internal CCT learnings and the direct influence on future CCT indicator work; CCT’s access to current indicator thinking\, processes\, tools and resources\, as well as the insights for CCT in terms of urban sustainable development priorities and challenges and how these are being managed by other cities. \nThe pilot study has demonstrated the importance of having undertaken live testing of the draft targets and indicators for Goal 11 in a set of diverse secondary and intermediate cities. If the urban SDG is to prove to be a useful tool to encourage local and national authorities alike to make positive investments in the various components of urban sustainability transitions as its proponents and developers intend\, then it is vital that it should prove widely relevant\, acceptable and practicable. Key recommendations from the final report to achieve these aims will be discussed. \nThis seminar will be presented by the following members of the pilot study team: \nNishendra Moodley was the PDG project lead and lead researcher for the pilot in Cape Town. He is a director of PDG and Chairperson of its Board. \nCarol Wright was the City Lead of the USDG pilot\, and co-ordinated the inputs from the City of Cape Town. Carol is Manager of Development Information in the City of Cape Town. \nNatasha Primo provided the alignment to the current CCT indicator and related work and active links to the City’s indicator working group which she leads. Natasha is the Head: Policy and Research in the DI&GIS Department of the CCT. \nHelen Arfvidsson has been the lead researcher for the Mistra Urban Futures’ Pilot Project to test potential targets and indicators for the urban sustainable development goal 11 across 5 cities. \n  \n 
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20150326T130000
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SUMMARY:POSTPONED!!! _ Relationship between Infrastructure Planning and Implementation in the Global South
DESCRIPTION:“Incipient thoughts about the Relationship between Infrastructure Planning and Implementation in the Global South” \nCurrent thinking on the relationship between infrastructure planning and effective implementation tends to stress the completion of a hierarchy of planning tasks well ahead of the year in which implementation must begin. This implies a process  of multi-year budgeting and knowing precisely what is to be done 3 to 4 years in advance of it actually happening. The general underpinning philosophy is that establishing implementation “certainty” well in advance is a necessary  pre-condition for successful implementation (usually defined as spending the budget allocated within the designated allocation period). Changing the game plan is seen as potentially catastrophic for implementation efficiency unless these changes are to be implemented 3 to 4 years in the future. As a consequence the delivery process becomes very rigid and it is difficult for politicians\, communities and practitioners to make a practical difference because things are bespoken for well in advance. The model is also very demanding of planners and implementers alike\, and often assumes the availability of reliable data for planning and the availability of competent professionals to effect delivery. In the developing world retaining rigidity in planning and implementation  is difficult in the context of volatile political and institutional environments. Moreover the reliability of planning information is often questionable. In any event planning and implementation processes in the developing world often need to be a lot more responsive and flexible than current established methodologies allow. There is as a consequence a need to develop and test new ways of conducting physical delivery processes in environments of uncertainty and complexity\, where a linear sequence of planning\, design\, procurement and implementation fails to deliver desired outcomes. The talk will examine some incipient thoughts in this regard drawn from the world of education infrastructure implementation. \nBiography: \nDan Smit is a highly experienced and accomplished development professional who has been involved in the international development field for more than 30 years. He has worked in many countries of the world and has undertaken substantial consulting work for inter alia the European Union\, USAID\, the World Bank\, GIZ and NUFFIC. He has been a Professor at one of the world’s leading international development schools\, the Institute of Social Studies in the Hague and has undertaken several international consultancies on their behalf. Dan Smit is a development all-rounder but has particular expertise in the fields of: international development aid; urban and regional planning; urban management and governance; housing and informal settlements; and infrastructure. In the academic arena he is well known for his writing on South African cities and on the relation between theory and practice. This ability to bridge theory and practice has enabled him to build a reputation for being able to keep the big picture squarely in mind whist simultaneously being able to systematically address the level of attention-to-detail that successful implementation requires.
URL:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/incipient-thoughts-relationship-infrastructure-planning-implementation-global-south-2/
LOCATION:Davies Reading Room\, Room 2.27\, Environmental and Geographical Science\, UCT\, Cape Town\, Western Cape\, 8000\, South Africa
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20141126T130000
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SUMMARY:Sanitation politics in Mumbai and Cape Town
DESCRIPTION:In this talk\, Colin McFarlane and Jonathan Silver will reflect on  their past work in Mumbai and their new research on the politicisation of sanitation in Cape Town\, with particular reference to the ‘poo protests’. \nColin will reflect on his work in the politics of sanitation in Mumbai’s informal settlements. He will draw out some key processes through which sanitation is organised in Mumbai\, and the politics around that\, as well highlighting some of the theoretical challenges the research presented for thinking about infrastructure and other strands of urban theory. \n  \nHe will also briefly reflect on emerging work on the politics of sanitation in Cape Town. Their aim is to deepen understanding of how sanitation is politicised in cities\, and to contribute to debate and ongoing work on sanitation politics in Cape Town. The objectives are to: examine why and how the ‘poo protests’ emerged in Cape Town; investigate why they took the form that they did; and contextualise the protests in the wider debates about service delivery\, urban politics\, and social justice in Cape Town.  They will conduct the research through interviews with a range of relevant actors including residents\, civil society groups\, municipal officials\, academics and political parties. The research builds on McFarlane’s work in India on the politics of urban sanitation\, and Silver’s work on the politics of urban infrastructure in South Africa. These previous research projects examined often ignored everyday experiences of sanitation and infrastructure and used the findings in discussions with municipal officials and civil society groups. \nColin McFarlane is an urban geographer whose work focusses on the experience and politics of informal neighbourhoods. This has involved research into the relations between informality\, infrastructure and knowledge in urban India and elsewhere. A key part of this has been a focus on the experience and politics of sanitation in informal settlements in Mumbai\, which was part of an Economic and Social Research Council ethnographic project on the everyday cultures and contested politics of sanitation and water in two informal settlements. His current work examines the politicisation of informal neighbourhoods in comparative perspective\, including African and South Asian cities.
URL:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/sanitation-politics-cape-town/
LOCATION:Davies Reading Room\, Room 2.27\, Environmental and Geographical Science\, UCT\, Cape Town\, Western Cape\, 8000\, South Africa
CATEGORIES:Brownbags
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20141204T130000
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SUMMARY:POSTPONED!! Speculative Design Ecologies: exploring relations between humans\, non-humans\, and artificial systems
DESCRIPTION:THIS EVENT IS POSTPONED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE\n\nSpeakers: Dr. Martín Ávila (Design for Sustainable Development at Konstfack Art and Design Institute in Stockholm) and Dr. Henrik Ernstson (African Centre for Cities\, University of Cape Town & KTH Environmental Humanities\, Division of History of Science\, Technology and Environment\, KTH Royal Institute of Technology\, Stockholm).\n\n  \n\nBased in the emergent practices around speculative design\, the seminar will depart from Dr. Martín Ávila’s thesis “Devices” that explored the notion of hospitality and hostility in design ecologies\, i.e. the assemblages between human and non-human agents that have emergent properties which we cannot fully control. This will lead into a discussion of the present project “Tactical Symbiotics”  to which Dr. Henrik Ernstson is also contributing. The  project Tactical Symbiotics searches for tactics that can reinforce the interdependence between cultural and biological variation and diversity through cooperation and/or togetherness between humans and non-humans.\n\nMove beyond the comfort zone: three speculative designs\nDuring 2014\, Dr. Ávila has worked in Argentina and developed three sub-projects called Doomestics\, Dispersal Machines\, and Spices/Species. These projects  are organized around questions such as: What if individual households would become parts of a decentred industry that capitalises on humans’ negative emotions to certain animals? What if agricultural machines would maintain the diversity of local ecosystems\, helping birds and insects pollinate and fertilize\, while producing food for humans? What if we could develop affection for insects and parasitoids that participate in the lifecycles of domestic plants? The projects are design-driven and uses speculative philosophy to make explicit alternative versions of the present or near future. By focusing on relations between humans and natural-artificial systems\, the projects strives to de-centre anthropocentric viewpoints to become a platform from which to provoke a possibility to reimagine everyday life. \nDoomestics work with the tension established by the ecological need (if we are to maintain biological diversity) to cohabit with beings that are perceived as dangerous\, undesirable or disgusting. Among them\, spiders\, scorpions and bats\, to name a few. The project stages a series of products that make these beings visible and integrate them in different ways to everyday urban life. Dispersal Machines proposes interventions in agricultural systems that most humans have no direct relationship to. This project conceives machines that complement\, supplement and/or maintain the activities of beings that participate in different natural processes such as the dispersion of seeds or pollen\, or the secretion of nutrients to the soil. Spices/Species addresses an intimate level of human relationship with nonhuman beings. This concerns plants eaten as food or used for medicinal purposes and the ecosystem functions they perform through forms of symbioses with\, for example\, insects and parasitoids. \nThe projects sketch and engage a diversity of responses that range from the intimate\, to completely detached human-nonhuman relations. They still have in common that they affect the diversity of\, and our relationship to\, urban and agro-ecosystems. By confronting us with alternative realities—and alternative emotions\, feelings and shivers—the project aims to open up new\, and perhaps surprising ethical and moral dimensions to revalue and re-evaluate our present relations with non-humans. \n  \n\nThe project strives to formulate a different response to our planetary ecological crisis than those strategies that often sort under terms like “ecosystem services” or “natural resources”. One inspiration for the project can be found in how Michel De Certeau spoke of tactics as practices that evade strategies of power. The seminar will present underlying theory and practical design projects.\n\n—- \n\n\nMartín Avila is a Researcher\, and Senior Lecturer in Design for Sustainable Development at Konstfack in Stockholm\, Sweden. Martin obtained a PhD in design from HDK (School of Design and Crafts) in Gothenburg\, Sweden\, and has published his thesis entitled Devices. On Hospitality\, Hostility and Design (2012). The PhD work was awarded the 2012 prize for design research by the The Swedish Faculty for Design Research and Research Education. Currently working (2013-2016) on a postdoctoral project financed by the Swedish Research Council: Symbiotic tactics. Design interventions for understanding and sensitizing to ecological complexity. \n  \n 
URL:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/speculative-design-ecologies/
LOCATION:Davies Reading Room\, Room 2.27\, Environmental and Geographical Science\, UCT\, Cape Town\, Western Cape\, 8000\, South Africa
CATEGORIES:Brownbags
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20141008T130000
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SUMMARY:Complicit masculinity on the African urban periphery
DESCRIPTION:In her talk titled “Entrepreneurs and consumers: complicit masculinity on the African urban periphery”\, Dr Jordanna Matlon will explore the relationship between masculinity and work in the double context of protracted economic and political crisis in Abidjan\, Côte d’Ivoire. She draws on participant observation fieldwork and interviews with men in Abidjan’s informal sector from 2008 to 2009\, and is supplemented by visual data. Ivoirian men who engage in informal activities overwhelmingly claim that they cannot be viable marriage partners\, and are thus incapable of achieving adult masculinity. “I examine two groups of men: political propagandists (orators) and mobile street vendors\, to understand how men affirm themselves in the absence of steady and dignifying work”\, she says. Both groups rejected the wage-earning working ideal as “Francophone” and asserted alternative modalities of economic participation as “Anglophone” men: entrepreneurs or consumers. Orators used ties to President Laurent Gbagbo’s political regime to secure livelihoods and pursue entrepreneurial identities. Vendors bypassed the state and asserted consumerist models of black masculinity from across the African diaspora. I employ “complicit masculinity” to examine how a relationship to capital mediates masculine identity. In doing so I demonstrate how men’s desires to counter gendered socioeconomic exclusion generate consent toneoliberal capitalism. \nAbout the speaker \nJordanna Matlon is a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse and received her doctorate in Sociology from UC Berkeley in 2012. She uses participant observation\, interviews and visual analysis to study the livelihoods and lifestyles of men in Abidjan\, Côte d’Ivoire’s informal economy.  More generally\, she is interested in questions of race and belonging in Africa and the African diaspora\, and the ways “blackness” as a signifier – and in its intersection with gender\, class\, and national identity – illuminates understandings of popular culture\, postcoloniality and neoliberalism in the contemporary city. Jordanna’s work has appeared in Antipode\, Contexts\, Ethnography and Poetics\, among other places\, and she is currently preparing her book manuscript\, tentatively titled “I will be VIP!”: Masculinity\, Modernity and Crisis on the Neoliberal Periphery. \n  \nVideo abstract: \nhttp://antipodefoundation.org/2014/02/17/narratives-of-modernity-masculinity-and-citizenship/
URL:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/entrepreneurs-consumers-complicit-masculinity-african-urban-periphery/
LOCATION:Davies Reading Room\, Room 2.27\, Environmental and Geographical Science\, UCT\, Cape Town\, Western Cape\, 8000\, South Africa
CATEGORIES:Brownbags
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20141017T010000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20141017T140000
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SUMMARY:Wake up\, this is Joburg!!!
DESCRIPTION:WAKE UP\, THIS IS JOBURG: ORDINARY TO OUTRAGEOUS ETHNOGRAPHIES OF URBAN LIFE\, is a series of ten photobooks by Tanya Zack and Mark Lewis about the city we hate to love but do anyway. Wake up\, this is Joburg tells the stories of ten ordinary\, interesting\, odd or outrageous denizens of the city of Johannesburg. \nThe series is published by Fourthwall Books (www.fourthwallbooks.com or www.facebook.com/fourthwallbooks). Note:  A limited number of the four titles will be available for sale at the Brown Bag at R150 each\, cash only. \nTanya Zack will talk to some of the stories of intersections of particular lives\, livelihoods and spaces that make up the first four titles in this series. These are: \nSkop: S’kop  takes readers into a disused parking garage in the inner city\, where cow heads are being chopped. It explores the informal business of chopping cow heads the stories of ‘the butchers and traders and entrepreneurs who have made this business uniquely theirs\, speak of the hardships of their work in the meat trade and the occasional rewards of making it on their own. \nZola: Under the Mooi Street off-ramp is an overflow rank for taxis waiting between peak hours to ferry people between the inner city and Zola\, Soweto. Here entrepreneurs cater all day to the needs of drivers from an array of mobile and stationary stalls\, selling food and snacks\, socks\, window wipers\, mobile phone attachments and bumper stickers with messages like ‘You also drive like shit so fuck off’. \nTony Dreams in Yellow and Blue: In the nondescript working class suburb of Turffontein\, which has always hosted migrants\, a restless outsider artist is at work transforming his home into a veritable castle of lights\, turrets\, murals\, manikins and stairways. He is an obsessive collector of ‘waste’\, but also an entrepreneur whose property is home to 17 rent-paying households. \nInside Out: This is a story of low-end globalisation—of food and other commodities traded and retailed informally across South Africa’s borders by people using the same principles as multinationals\, but with no formal credit or banking facilities. \n  \nTanya Zack is a town planner. Her major areas of focus have been in housing research and policy development\, community participation and evaluation of large scale development projects. She has worked within local government and as a private consultant\, both on policy work and in practical projects. She has a close relationship to Wits University where she obtained a PhD for work on critical pragmatism in planning. Tanya grew up in the inner city suburbs of Johannesburg.Her current interest is in the narratives of entrepreneurs working in the Johannesburg CBD. \nImage credit: Mark Lewis
URL:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/wake-joburg-ordinary-outrageous-ethnographies-urban-life/
LOCATION:Davies Reading Room\, Room 2.27\, Environmental and Geographical Science\, UCT\, Cape Town\, Western Cape\, 8000\, South Africa
CATEGORIES:Brownbags
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20140917T130000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20140917T140000
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SUMMARY:Streets can be more than they are: Exploring Open Streets
DESCRIPTION:Open Streets Cape Town\, despite its short existence\, has succeeded in capturing the imagination of many local residents. \nWith origins in Bogota Colombia in the mid 1970s\, “Open Streets” has become a global movement with increased growth in the past five years. Tactics to explore and reclaim public space are central to the Open Streets philosophy. However\, tactics must be shifted and changed given the location and context. It is in this spirit that this talk will discuss the nature of Open Streets in other cities\, what has been possible in Cape Town to date\, future visions for the Cape Town Open Streets\, and what type of impact the programme\, and similar programmes\, can aim to have in terms of social development\, urban planning and economic opportunity. \nThe discussion will be reflective in nature addressing critical questions such as how can a powerful event translate into a lifestyle? how can it address conflicting uses of the street? and how can it genuinely bridge the spatial divide of our city? \nAbout the Speakers\nMarcela Guerrero Casas was born and raised in Bogota\, Colombia\, Marcela Guerrero Casas is passionate about cities and public space. Marcela holds a Masters in Public Administration and International Affairs from Syracuse University and has worked in policy and advocacy for almost ten years. Marcela moved to Johannesburg in 2006 and worked in Zimbabwe\, Swaziland and Kenya before moving permanently to Cape Town in 2011. In 2012\, Marcela co-founded Open Streets\, a citizen-led organization working to transform how streets are perceived\, utilized and experienced. Marcela is also a co-founder of SUR Collective\, a platform for cultural exchange between Latin American and Sub-Saharan African countries and is currently a contributor to the African Centre for Cities’ Serious Fun. \nDiana Sanchez-Betancourt is a senior researcher at the HSRC. She holds an MA in social sciences from Uppsala Universitet in Sweden and a BA degree in political science and international relations from Universidad Externado in Colombia. She is currently a World Social Sciences Fellow on Sustainable Urbanisation (2013-2015).Her research is trans-disciplinary and her main areas of interest include sustainable urbanisation\, citizen engagement\, social cohesion and collaborative work with Latin America. Amongst other projects Diana coordinates a cross-regional Learning Alliance on citizen engagement and oversight under the international ELLA (Evidence and Lessons from Latin America) programme\, and a study on citizen engagement in the sphere of local government within the Cities Support Programme led by National Treasury. Her most recent work\, to be published\, explores the relationship between public spaces\, social integration and sustainable urbanisation in Cape Town\, where she is also an activist and volunteer around these issues. \n 
URL:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/streets-can-exploring-open-steets/
LOCATION:Davies Reading Room\, Room 2.27\, Environmental and Geographical Science\, UCT\, Cape Town\, Western Cape\, 8000\, South Africa
CATEGORIES:Brownbags
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20140820T150000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20140820T163000
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SUMMARY:In the skin of the city: the street and its doubles
DESCRIPTION:In this presentation\, Anthropologist António Tomás (ACC’s the 2014 Ray Pahl Fellow) will undertake to provide a layered description of the city of Luanda by engaging with a number of ethnographic vignettes based on his wanderings through the city. “Such a methodology has two sources” says Tomás. “First\, I draw on the modernist figure of the flâneur as it was proposed by Charles Baudelaire and theorized by Walter Benjamin. Second\, I also draw on the methods for wandering in the city (later on theorized by de Certeau) that was called psycho-geography by the situationists. I use this methodology in reference to the situationists who developed it as a way to ‘deconstruct’ Le Corbusian’s modernist ambitions in transforming Paris.” \nThis exercise allows Tomás to provide a description not only of the surface of the city (or the city from the surface)\, but to also find a vantage point to “deconstruct” Luanda’s colonial and postcolonial imaginaries. By annalyzing the prevailing practices of anonymous Luandans who give names to streets that disavowal their official designations\, he gains a further understanding of the surface of the city that goes beyond its own (modernist) visibility. \nAbout the author \nAntónio Tomás received his doctoral degree in Anthropology from Columbia University\, 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).  Tomás is the 2014 Ray Pahl Fellow at the African Centre for Cities\, working on a book 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/skin-city-street-doubles/
LOCATION:Davies Reading Room\, Room 2.27\, Environmental and Geographical Science\, UCT\, Cape Town\, Western Cape\, 8000\, South Africa
CATEGORIES:Seminar Series
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20140813T130000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20140813T140000
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SUMMARY:Cape Town’s new Development Charges Policy for Engineering Services
DESCRIPTION:The City of Cape Town has recently approved a new Development Charges Policy for Engineering Services.  This policy pins down some vexing questions.   \nWhen land use intensifies the municipality has to increase its infrastructure networks to accommodate the increased demand for services.  There is always a cost to the city\, but who should cover that cost: the developer or the body of ratepayers as a whole?  How should the municipality calculate that amount?  Should socially beneficial land use changes\, like low-income housing have to pay the same as land use changes that are commercially driven?  Should there be a different method of calculating this amount for small or emerging businesses as opposed to big businesses?  Why can’t the costs of extending the infrastructure networks be covered through monthly tariffs for the different services? \nNick Graham and Stephen Berrisford have been part of the professional team\, headed by AECOM\, drafting the new policy for the City of Cape Town.  They are also working on the National Treasury’s process to develop national law and policy on the subject.  They will share their experiences at the ACC’s Brown Bag session and explain the rationale behind the new policy as well as identify some of the implications for the city of the new approach. \nNick Graham is a Director at PDG\, responsible for the Urban Systems Practice Area. He is an urban geographer and registered professional engineer with Masters degrees in civil engineering\, environmental policy and urban geography. \nStephen Berrisford is an independent consultant specialising in the legal and policy frameworks governing urban land and development. He is trained as a lawyer and urban planner\, with degrees from the Universities of Cape Town and Cambridge. He works primarily in southern and eastern Africa as well as on global initiatives for agencies such as UN-Habitat\, Cities Alliance and the World Bank. Stephen is an adjunct associate professor at the African Centre for Cities at the University of Cape Town and visiting professor at the University of the Witwatersrand. He was the governance coordinator for the Urban Land Markets Programme Southern Africa (Urban LandMark)\, a UK aid-funded think tank focused on making urban land markets in southern Africa work better for the poor. \nImage credit: Barry Christianson
URL:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/someones-got-pay-background-city-cape-towns-new-development-charges-policy-engineering-services/
LOCATION:Davies Reading Room\, Room 2.27\, Environmental and Geographical Science\, UCT\, Cape Town\, Western Cape\, 8000\, South Africa
CATEGORIES:Brownbags
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20140730T150000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20140730T163000
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SUMMARY:Political and Affective Ecologies of the City
DESCRIPTION:In her talk\, Dr Karen Till will explore the limitations and possibilities of considering urban ecology as a means to ‘think the city differently’. Her starting premise is simple: how might we begin to challenge dominant paradigms in urban theory\, including resilience and neoliberal speculative urbanisms\, that define ground merely as property and contain time according to desire and fear? Using examples from cities around the world\, the talk will address the concept of the wounded city and a place-based ethics of care according to intersecting urban temporal and spatial meshworks that include: social and material environments\, relational networks\, local pathways\, alternative exchange systems\, affective ecologies\, enacted assemblages\, and urban ecosystem wholeness. \nAbout the speaker \nDr. Karen E. Till is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Geography at the National University of Ireland at Maynooth. A cultural and urban geographer\, Karen is working on a book entitled ‘Wounded Cities’. It is a comparative ethnographic project about cities marked by histories of state-perpetrated violence\, with case studies in Berlin\, Bogota\, Cape Town and Dublin. \nRequired Reading \n[button link=”https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Till_KE_2012_WoundedCities_PG.pdf” style=”download” color=”red” window=”yes”]Wounded Cities 2012[/button]
URL:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/political-affective-ecologies-city/
LOCATION:Davies Reading Room\, Room 2.27\, Environmental and Geographical Science\, UCT\, Cape Town\, Western Cape\, 8000\, South Africa
CATEGORIES:Seminar Series
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20140625T130000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20140625T140000
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SUMMARY:Ronald Wall: Investment flows into African & European cities
DESCRIPTION:In his talk “South Rising? Exploring ten years of investment flows into African and European countries and cities” Ronald Wall compares ten years of investment flows into African and European countries and cities and also shows which social\, economic and spatial location factors are important for attracting these investments and how these differ across the two  regions. Wall includes GIS mapping of the networks and econometric results in his analysis. This will be followed by a discussion on how African cities could use this type of knowledge for development strategies.\n  \nAbout the Speaker\nRonald Wall is an economic geographer and urban planner who has worked for various urban planning offices\, governmental organizations and academic institutions. He is head of the economic geography department at the IHS / Erasmus University Rotterdam\, The Netherlands. He specializes in economic network analysis e.g trade and investment flows between cities. Wall has worked on projects in Africa\, The Middle East\, Asia\, Latin America\, and Europe. Over the past 15 years\, the central focus of his work has been the development of resilient urban planning based on interdisciplinary collaboration and by understanding the local\, regional and global network characteristics of cities. He has worked with architects\, scientists\, policymakers and academics – and  won various architectural prizes\, been awarded several research grants and published in leading journals. Wall  lectures at a variety of urban planning and economics schools. \n 
URL:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/south-rising-exploring-ten-years-investment-flows-african-european-countries-cities/
LOCATION:Davies Reading Room\, Room 2.27\, Environmental and Geographical Science\, UCT\, Cape Town\, Western Cape\, 8000\, South Africa
CATEGORIES:Brownbags
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20140423T130000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20140423T140000
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SUMMARY:Towards Accessible Urban Areas
DESCRIPTION:Towards Accessible Urban Areas for Persons with Disabilities: Over 600 million people\, approximately 10% of the world’s population\, have some type of a disability. In developing countries\, due to the two fold correlation between disability and poverty\, up to 20% of the population has a disability. Due to structural\, environmental and attitudinal barriers they continue to face\, persons with disabilities are often prevented from fully participating in the economic and social life\, leading to their further impoverishment. Amidst a wide array of tools used to enable the full participation in the society of persons with disabilities\, accessibility and universal design are of significant importance when it comes to urban planning. This presentation focuses on transport and infrastructure within the urban setting\, and aims to further the understanding of the mobility and access issues experienced by persons with disabilities in developing countries\, and to identify specific steps that can be taken to start addressing problems. \nAbout the speaker\nMaša Anišić is a doctoral candidate at the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna in Italy. Her doctoral thesis examines the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the impact of its innovative architecture on the stronger social\, economic and cultural rights fulfillment for persons with disabilities.
URL:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/towards-accessible-urban-areas-persons-disabilities/
LOCATION:Davies Reading Room\, Room 2.27\, Environmental and Geographical Science\, UCT\, Cape Town\, Western Cape\, 8000\, South Africa
CATEGORIES:Brownbags
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20140402T130000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20140402T140000
DTSTAMP:20260413T234841
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SUMMARY:Policy & Governance Contexts for Scalable Community-Led Slum Upgrading
DESCRIPTION:The presentation first addresses the policy and governance contexts for the scalability of community-led slum upgrading based on the Shack/Slum Dweller International methodology. The methodology is based on that of the Indian Alliance (NSDF\, Mahila Milan\, SPARC)\, which comprises community-based organizations and NGOs\, in partnership with government\, delivering municipal services\, securing tenure and promoting slum upgrading. The presentation continues with the role of the Pune and Mumbai community-led toilet block precedents in South-South knowledge exchange. \nAbout the speaker\nRichard Tomlinson is Chair in Urban Planning in the Faculty of Architecture Building and Planning at the University of Melbourne. Before going to Australia he served as an urban policy consultant in Southern Africa and as an academic in South Africa and the USA. His clients included the post-apartheid South African government\, and provincial and local governments\, The World Bank\, USAID\, UN Habitat international and local NGOs\, and also the private sector. As an academic he has served as a Visiting Professor at the University of the Witwatersrand and Columbia University\, as a Visiting Scholar and SPURS Fellow at MIT\, and a Guest Scholar at the Brookings Institution. His most recent publications\, research and teaching concern the effects of Google and social media on urban policy knowledge products; urban policy processes and ‘international best practice’; slum upgrading; the BRICS and the urban legacy of sports mega events; and housing and the Australian city. His most recent book is an edited publication on Australia’s Unintended Cities: The Impact of Housing on Urban Development.
URL:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/policy-governance-contexts-scalable-community-led-slum-upgrading/
LOCATION:Davies Reading Room\, Room 2.27\, Environmental and Geographical Science\, UCT\, Cape Town\, Western Cape\, 8000\, South Africa
CATEGORIES:Brownbags
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20140304T130000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20140304T140000
DTSTAMP:20260413T234841
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SUMMARY:City governance in new authoritarian states
DESCRIPTION:The Case for Luanda\nMany states in Africa have been formally democratic since the 1990s and in terms of their institutional landscape\, look like electoral democracies\, with constitutions\, elections\, parliaments\, courts\, local governments\, private media and civic associations. Yet\, in practice these institutions may not operate under the kind of political freedom and legal security that can be found in liberal electoral democracies. In spite of a growing literature on the workings of this type of ‘new authoritarianism’\, there is little work on how the nature of such regimes in Africa translates to city governance. On the other hand\, few studies of African cities incorporate political regime theory in their analyses. As a result\, they are often either overly pessimistic or too optimistic with regard to the role of local governments and civil society in city governance. Based on a discussion of the role of the Angolan government and ruling party in the planning and governance of the capital city of Luanda\, this presentation argues in favour of a more grounded understanding of the African city. \nAbout the Speaker
\nSylvia Croese is a post-doctoral fellow at the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology at Stellenbosch University. Her PhD thesis\, entitled Post-war state-led development at work in Angola. The Zango housing project in Luanda as a case study\, looked into the ways in which distributive policies such as housing are used to contribute to regime legitimacy and survival in the city of Luanda\, thereby bringing together two theoretical bodies of work: one on political regimes and one centred around urban studies in Africa. Her current research further examines how governments that are formally democratic\, but authoritarian in practice manage their rapidly growing cities and how this in turn affects city dwellers’ perceptions of and engagements with the state.
URL:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/city-governance-new-authoritarian-states-case-luanda/
LOCATION:Davies Reading Room\, Room 2.27\, Environmental and Geographical Science\, UCT\, Cape Town\, Western Cape\, 8000\, South Africa
CATEGORIES:Brownbags
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20140221T150000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20140221T170000
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SUMMARY:Epistemological Practices of Southern Urbanism
DESCRIPTION:Professor Edgar Pieterse will offer a reflection upon the epistemological project that lives at the heart of the African Centre for Cities This reflection is centrally concerned with some fundamental questions: How best can meaningful knowledge about the urban be produced? What should we produce knowledge for? And what do these questions mean for the politics of knowledge production in the global South?  Prof Ari Sitas\, (Sociology\, UCT) will act as discussant
URL:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/academic-seminar-edgar-pieterse/
LOCATION:Davies Reading Room\, Room 2.27\, Environmental and Geographical Science\, UCT\, Cape Town\, Western Cape\, 8000\, South Africa
CATEGORIES:Seminar Series
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