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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
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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/
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20141017T010000
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20140917T130000
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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/
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20140820T150000
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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
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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
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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:20140730T150000
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20140625T130000
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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
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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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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
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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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