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SUMMARY:A systematic review of the literature that focuses on both the ‘informal economy’ and ‘food security’ in South Africa
DESCRIPTION:Food is fundamental not only to well-being\, but to our social and economic lives. Despite this\, one of the biggest challenges facing many people in cities all over the world today is hunger. As cities rapidly urbanise\, different pressures are placed on the food system which has resulted in the least nutritious food being the most affordable. This seminar series will explore the informal economy\, food systems\, food security and urbanisation. \nThe second seminar is entitled ‘A systematic review of the literature that focuses on both the ‘informal economy’ and ‘food security’ in South Africa’ presented by Candice Kelly and Etai Even-Zahav (Research Fellows at the Sustainability Institute). \nAbstract \nDespite the importance of the informal food economy in fulfilling the daily and weekly food needs of a large proportion of South Africa’s low-income population\, it appears little research exists on the exact nature of the relationship between the informal food economy and food security. This paper performed the first qualitative systematic review of research from South Africa that addresses both these aspects. The methods used in the review are described in detail\, to increase the readers’ ability to assess the reliability of subsequent findings and analysis. Findings confirmed the low level of research focus on the informal food economy (and food security)\, in particular the stages of the value chain beyond the farm gate and before the consumer. Food safety research is common\, although applied narrowly and with mixed findings. The conceptualisation of nutrition research is encouragingly wide\, encompassing both over- and under-nutrition\, but does not seem to consider the broader urban informal context in which consumers are embedded. Lastly\, the research approaches used are predominately quantitative\, and the voices of those who survive within the informal food economy are largely absent. \nBios \nCandice Kelly’s doctoral research focuses on people leading food system transitions in South Africa. She teaches into the MPhil at the Sustainability Institute\, focusing on sustainable food systems. \nEtai Even-Zahav is also part of the Food Systems team at the Sustainability Institute. He is particularly interested in the informal food economy.
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LOCATION:Studio 3\, ENGEO Building\, Upper Campus. University of Cape Town\,\, Cape Town\, Western Cape\, 8001\, South Africa
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SUMMARY:ACC NOTRUC Seminar Series: Contesting the Coast:  Infrastructure\, Ecology and Coastal Planning in New Orleans and the Mississippi River Delta - Cancelled
DESCRIPTION:This seminar focuses on environmental politics and regional urban planning based on a paper by Dr Joshua Lewis and Dr Henrik Ernstson called Contesting the Coast: Infrastructure\, Ecology and Coastal Planning in New Orleans and the Mississippi River Delta. The paper is presented by Dr Henrik Ernstson who works at ACC and is affiliated to KTH Royal Institute of Technology and The University of Manchester. \nThe presentation will take place on 8 November 2017\, at 15:00 in Studio 3\, Environmental and Geographical Sciences Building\, Upper Campus\, University of Cape Town. \nPlease note this seminar has been cancelled.  \nABSTRACT \nFor over 150 years two major and capital-driven projects have re-worked the vast Louisiana coastal landscape. One has centered on ‘adapting’ the landscape to compete and increase for global maritime trade\, shortening the time distance from New Orleans to the Gulf of Mexico. The second has been about increasing the amount of space for real estate and urban development. However\, developing large-scale water infrastructure in a vast and complex ecosystem comes with unexpected social and ecological dynamics. Indeed\, our argument is that infrastructure has changed biophysical relations that have been stable for hundreds and thousands of years to fundamentally change how ecosystems operate and function with social and ecological effects. Based on in-depth historical research\, we develop an analytical repertoire for understanding historical interrelationships between water infrastructure\, regional environmental politics\, and large-scale coastal ecosystems. By further drawing on planning theory that has striven to de-center Habermasian consensus approaches (e.g.\, Vanessa Watson)\, this paper focuses on how knowledge controversies can help not only to ‘slow down reasoning’ (sensu Isabelle Stengers and Sarah Whatmore) to include more textured and situated ways of knowing the vast and complex Louisiana coastal landscape\, but also drives the making of proper political subjects (Jacques Rancière) that can interrupt and shape the wider administration of large-scale planning efforts. Our analysis shows how water infrastructure has produced persistent divisions in the body politic to hinder contemporary strategies to secure New Orleans and other settlements in the region from devastating storm surge and inundation. In a world under climate change\, when novel biophysical dynamics are constantly introduced\, we believe our textured case study can help to think about the new kind of politics we need to understand\, from the role of ‘ecological expertise’ (now siding increasingly with ‘engineering expertise’)\, to how ecological dynamics are shaping political subjectivities. \n  \nMORE ON JOSHUA LEWIS & HENRIK ERNSTSON  \nDr Joshua Lewis is based in New Orleans where he studies how infrastructure networks transform regional ecosystems and its effects on environmental justice and political processes. His historically grounded focus on the implementation and maintenance of large-scale water infrastructure connects between the local and the regional and across human geography\, ecology and sociology. He has also developed comprehensive vegetation studies in New Orleans (linked to a comparative study in Cape Town) to understand how hurricanes and urban development shape urban ecosystems and its often-unequal effect on different social groups. He completed his PhD at the Stockholm Resilience Centre at the Stockholm University in 2015 and he is now employed at Tulane University as Research Assistant Professor at the ByWater Institute where he is leading a novel ecological monitoring project in New Orleans that tracks ecological changes associated with a major green infrastructure and stormwater management project. With his studies in political ecology and urban ecology\, he also networks with partners in the Rockefeller Foundation’s 100 Resilient Cities program to deepen knowledge exchanges around urban ecology in partner cities. For more information\, go here: publications. \n  \nDr Henrik Ernstson is developing a situated approach to urban political ecology that combines critical geography\, urban infrastructure studies\, postcolonial urbanism and collaborations with designers\, artists and activists. He has lead various projects to study collective action\, environmental conflicts and urban ecosystem management in Cape Town\, New Orleans and Stockholm\, and infrastructure politics in Kampala. Currently he is finalizing two edited books for MIT Press and Routledge\, “Grounding Urban Natures” (Ernstson & Sörlin) and “Urban Political Ecology in the Anthropo-Obscene” (Ernstson & Swyngedouw). With Jacob von Heland he has created the research-based cinematic ethnography film “One Table Two Elephants\,” a film that richly surfaces the politics of nature\, race\, and history in a postcolonial city (71 minutes\, screening 2018). In 2017 he was awarded The AXA Research Award for recognition of his innovative work on urban sustainability in the global South\, which will fund a research group to study petro-urbanism and urban infrastructure in Luanda with South-South connections to Brazil and China. He holds a PhD in Natural Resource Management from Stockholm University (2008) with postdoctoral positions at Stanford University (2013-2015) and the University of Cape Town (2010-2011). He lives in Cape Town and works at the African Centre for Cities\, while holding a Research Fellowship at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm contributing to KTH Environmental Humanities Laboratory. In August 2017 he joined The University of Manchester as part-time Lecturer in Human Geography. For more information\, go here: publications and projects. \n 
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LOCATION:Studio 3\, ENGEO Building\, Upper Campus. University of Cape Town\,\, Cape Town\, Western Cape\, 8001\, South Africa
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SUMMARY:Socio-Spatial Transformation Seminar Series: TOD in Cape Town
DESCRIPTION:Cape Town’s spatial organisation is characterised by fragmentation; expressed in a separation of residential and employment spaces and low density urban sprawl. This imposes a considerable cost on the State\, the environment and increases the socio-economic burden and exclusion of a great majority of the city’s residents. Greater synergy between urban development and mobility through densification and the provision of quality public transport is considered to be central to the spatial and social restructuring of the city. \nThe next seminar in the ACC’s Socio-Spatial Transformation Series will take a closer look at the City of Cape Town’s plans for Transit-Oriented Development (TOD). Leigh Stolworthy from the City’s Transport and Urban Development Authority (TUD) will present the City’s TOD approach and Prof. Roger Behrens from UCT’s Department of Civil Engineering will provide a response. \nSpeaker: Mr. Leigh Stolworthy – Manager: Innovation\, Research & Development\, City of Cape Town \nPLEASE NOTE: The starting time for the seminar was changed from 2pm to 3pm.
URL:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/socio-spatial-transformation-seminar-series-tod-cape-town/
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SUMMARY:ACC/ AFD Symposium on Informal Settlements\, Slums and Precarious Neighbourhoods
DESCRIPTION:Cities in the Global South are characterised by the presence of marginalised areas with inadequate housing\, inadequate infrastructure and inadequate security of tenure. Known by a variety of terms\, such as informal settlements\, slums and precarious neighbourhoods and settlements\, it essential that we better understand these types of settlements and potential ways in which the lives of residents can be improved. \nThe African Centre for Cities (ACC) at the University of Cape Town and the Agence Française de Développement (AFD) present and discuss a number of strands of related work\, including the recent AFD book Rethinking Precarious Neighbourhoods edited by Professor Agnès Deboulet\, the work of ACC’s Urban Violence\, Safety and Inclusion CityLab coordinated by Dr Mercy Bown-Luthango\, and the work of the Sustainable Human Settlements CityLab coordinated by Liza Cirolia. \nSYMPOSIUM PROGRAMME \n10:00-10:10        Welcome and introduction \n10:10-10:40         “Rethinking precarious neighbourhoods” – Professor Agnès Deboulet (Professor of Sociology at the University of Paris 8 and Associate Director of the  Laborotoire Ville\, Architecture\, Urbanisme Environment\, LAVUE-CNRS) \n10:40-11:10         “Informal settlement upgrading and safety: Four cases from Cape Town” – Dr Mercy Brown-Luthango (ACC) \n11:10-11:40         “’Upgrading informal settlements in South Africa: Understanding the disjunctures between policy   and practice” – Liza Cirolia (ACC) \n11:40-12:30         Questions and discussion \n  \nWhere: Studio 3\, EGS Building\, Upper Campus\, University of Cape Town \nTime: 10:00 – 12:30 (followed by lunch) \nDate: Wednesday\, 17 May 2017 \nPlease note: Space is limited. \nPlease RSVP to Maryam Waglay at maryam.waglay@uct.ac.za by 12:00 on 15 May 2017.
URL:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/acc-afd-symposium-informal-settlements-slums-precarious-neighbourhoods/
LOCATION:Studio 3\, ENGEO Building\, Upper Campus. University of Cape Town\,\, Cape Town\, Western Cape\, 8001\, South Africa
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20170315T160000
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SUMMARY:What must be our urban question? Reflections on Contemporary Urban Knowledge from Delhi
DESCRIPTION:ACC is delighted to be hosting Gautam Bhan from the Indian Institute of Human Settlements who will be giving a seminar as part of our socio-spatial transformations seminar series. The seminar is entitled ‘What must be our urban question? Reflections on Contemporary Urban Knowledge from Delhi’. \nAbout \nThe fact of urbanization no longer needs assertion. Today\, our problem is of an excess of speech. What do we talk about when we talk about the urban? Cities? Built Form? Economic Agglomerations? Violence? Modernity? Democracy? Nature? Infrastructure? Transport? As each of us – citizens\, theorists\, practitioners\, policy makers – seeks to grasp the urban\, we find ourselves navigating multiple and often competing visions of cities that seek to be smart\, inclusive\, resilient\, sustainable\, world-class\, ordinary\, and global all at once. \n This talk reflects on how we must think of the urban in the moment of its emergence. It asks: what are the knowledge systems\, cultures and practices that we need to in order live\, survive and intervene into our city-regions?  It does so at a moment when the urban question is once again up for global debate\, challenged to cross disciplines\, offer knowledge for urgent and transformative practice to address a maddening diversity of issues from inequality to sustainability. It does so\, in line with new theoretical thinking from the “south\,” by beginning and rooting from place\, asking questions of urban theory and practice from one its most challenging sites: the city of New Delhi. In doing so\, it also takes on the task of imagining what a decolonisation of urban studies can look like. \nBio \nGautam Bhan has a BA from Amherst College and an MA from the University of Chicago in urban sociology. He has worked as a Research Fellow at the Society for Applied Studies\, New Delhi\, where is his first work was on gender and access to health in informal urban settlements [The Effect of Maternal Education on Gender Bias in Care-seeking for common childhood illnesses\, Social Science and Medicine\, Vol. 60 (4)\, 2005] and later focused on urban poverty in Indian cities and particularly on questions of eviction\, resettlement and poverty within urban development. \nHe is the author of Swept off the Map: Surviving Eviction and Resettlement in Delhi [2005; Hindi Translation 2009] and most recently of This is Not the City I Once Knew: Evictions\, Urban Citizenship and the Right to the City in Millennial Delhi (Environment & Urbanisation\, Vol. 21 (1)\, 2009). He is also a columnist with the Indian Express\, one of India’s leading English language newspapers\, where he writes on urbanisation and urban issues in India. His ongoing research at Berkeley focuses on the changing politics of citizenship and poverty in post-liberalisation Indian cities. He was awarded the prestigious Berkeley Fellowship for 2008-2012 to support his doctoral studies. He is also currently a 2009 IDRF fellow of the Social Science Research Council\, New York.
URL:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/must-urban-question-reflections-contemporary-urban-knowledge-delhi/
LOCATION:Studio 3\, ENGEO Building\, Upper Campus. University of Cape Town\,\, Cape Town\, Western Cape\, 8001\, South Africa
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SUMMARY:Luxified skies: How vertical urban housing became an elite preserve
DESCRIPTION:The African Centre for Cities and the School of Architecture\, Planning and Geomatics are pleased to co-host a Special Lecture by Prof Stephen Graham entitled ‘Luxified skies: How vertical urban housing became an elite preserve’. \nAbstract \nThis talk is a call for critical urban research to address the vertical as well as horizontal aspects of social inequality. It seeks\, in particular\, to explore the important but neglected causal connection between the demonisation and dismantling of social housing towers constructed in many cities between the 1930s and 1970s and the contemporary proliferation of radically different housing towers produced for socio-economic elites. The argument begins with a critical discussion of the economistic orthodoxy\, derived from the work of Edward Glaeser\, that contemporary housing crises are best addressed by removing state intervention in housing production so that market-driven verticalisation can take place. The following two sections connect the rise of such orthodoxy with the ‘manufactured reality’—so central to neo-liberal urban orthodoxy—that vertical social housing must necessarily fail because it deterministically creates social pathology. The remainder of the paper explores in detail how the dominance of these narratives have been central to elite takeovers\, and ‘luxification’\, of the urban skies through the proliferation of condo towers for the superrich. Case studies are drawn from Vancouver\, New York\, London\, Mumbai and Guatemala City and the broader vertical cultural and visual politics of the process are explored. The discussion finishes by exploring the challenges involved in contesting\, and dismantling\, the hegemonic dominance of vertical housing by elite interests in contemporary cities. \nBio \nStephen Graham is Professor of Cities and Society at Newcastle University’s School of Architecture\, Planning and Landscape. He has an interdisciplinary background linking human geography\, urbanism and the sociology of technology. Since the early 1990s Prof. Graham has used this foundation to develop critical perspectives addressing how cities are being transformed through remarkable changes in infrastructure\, mobility\, digital media\, surveillance\, security\, militarism and verticality. His books include Splintering Urbanism; Telecommunications and the City (both with Simon Marvin); the Cybercities Reader; Cities\, War and Terrorism; Disrupted Cities: When Infrastructures Fail; and Infrastructural Lives (with Colin McFarlane). Prof Graham’s 2011 book Cities Under Siege: The New Military Urbanism was nominated for the Orwell Prize in political writing and was the Guardian’s book of the week. His new book – Vertical: The City From Satellites to Bunkers (Verso) – was published in November 2016. Another Guardian book of the week\, it was in the books of the year lists of both the FT and the Observer.
URL:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/luxified-skies-vertical-urban-housing-became-elite-preserve/
LOCATION:Studio 3\, ENGEO Building\, Upper Campus. University of Cape Town\,\, Cape Town\, Western Cape\, 8001\, South Africa
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SUMMARY:Invitation to the 3nd Seminar in the Spatial Transformation CityLab Series
DESCRIPTION:The Role of Affordable Housing in advancing Socio-spatial Transformation in Cape Town \nCape Town’s spatial organisation is characterised by fragmentation; expressed in a separation of residential and employment spaces and low density urban sprawl. This imposes a considerable cost on the State\, the environment and increases the socio-economic burden and exclusion of a great majority of the city’s residents. The provision of affordable housing in well-located areas is critical in fostering integration and improving the social and economic conditions of poor households in Cape Town. \nThe next seminar in the ACC’s Socio-Spatial Transformation Series will seek to unpack what “Affordable Housing” means in Cape Town; given the diversity of housing need in the city and will provide an overview of some of the available housing instruments. It will also consider how these speak to the imperatives of socio-spatial transformation and sustainability. \n  \nSpeaker: \nMs. Kahmiela August\, Director of Affordable Housing – Western Cape Provincial Department of Human  Settlements \nMs August is responsible for the management of the Affordable Housing Directorate\, which incorporates Gap and the Rental Housing provision for persons earning between R1 500 – R3 500. The directorate is also responsible for Social Housing Programme. \nFunctions include; \n\nproject packaging\, pipelining and approval\,\nIntegrated settlement planning\, policy review and implementation.\n\n  \nThe team is also overseeing the development of the departmental partnership strategy. \nPlease RSVP to Mercy Brown-Luthango on mercy.brown-luthango@uct.ac.za
URL:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/invitation-3nd-seminar-spatial-transformation-citylab-series/
LOCATION:Studio 3\, ENGEO Building\, Upper Campus. University of Cape Town\,\, Cape Town\, Western Cape\, 8001\, South Africa
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SUMMARY:Theorizing Urbanization: the Universal and the Particular in Question
DESCRIPTION:The African Centre for Cities is pleased to announce it’s first Special Lecture for 2017. We will be hosting Prof Kevin Cox\, who will be presenting a lecture on ‘Theorizing Urbanization: The Universal and the Particular in Question’. \nAbstract \nOver the last twenty-five years or so urban studies has witnessed increasing skepticism towards universalizing claims and a greater interest in the particularizing. Recent arguments for a view from the global South exemplify this. This raises the question of what the relationship between universalizing and particularizing tendencies might be. This is explored firstly through an exploration of how the two might be reconciled. Two case studies then follow. One focuses on the ‘view from the South’ controversy; and the other on the politics of urban development in the US and in Western Europe and a subsequent trans-Atlantic divide. \nBio \nKEVIN R. COX\, is Emeritus Distinguished University Professor of Geography at the Ohio State University. His major research interests include the politics of urban and regional development\, geographic thought and South Africa. He is the author of numerous books\, the most recent of which are The Politics of Urban and Regional Development and the American Exception (2016) and Making Human Geography (2014.) He has been a Guggenheim Fellow and the recipient of two awards from the Association of American Geographers\, including one for distinguished scholarship. More information can be found on his website\, Unfashionable Geographies\, at https://kevinrcox.wordpress.com/. \n 
URL:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/theorizing-urbanization-beyond-binaries/
LOCATION:Studio 3\, ENGEO Building\, Upper Campus. University of Cape Town\,\, Cape Town\, Western Cape\, 8001\, South Africa
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SUMMARY:Finding Food in the post-2015 Development Agenda
DESCRIPTION:Food is fundamental not only to well-being\, but to our social and economic lives. Despite this\, one of the biggest challenges facing many people in cities all over the world today is hunger. As cities rapidly urbanise\, different pressures are placed on the food system which has resulted in the least nutritious food being the most affordable. This seminar series will explore the informal economy\, food systems\, food security and urbanisation. This final seminar by Dr Jane Battersby explores the global implications of the post-2015 development agenda. \nAbstract \nFood has not historically been considered central to the urban agenda. However\, good nutrition is essential for equitable growth and sustainable urban food systems are key to responding to many of the challenges posed to growing cities. In the wake of Habitat III\, this seminar examines the gaps and opportunities to engage the food system as part of urban governance and planning that have emerged in the space generated by the SDGs and New Urban Agenda document. It draws on findings from AFSUN (African Food Security Urban Network) and the Consuming Urban Poverty project. \nBio \nJane Battersby is an urban geographer with an interest in all things food related. Her current areas of particular interest are urban food systems\, urban food policies and the construction of food security theory in Northern and Southern research contexts. This work has both theoretical and applied components. Underpinning her food work is an ongoing interest in the linkages between spatial transformation and identity transformation in post-apartheid urban areas – a topic she has addressed through the lenses of youth identities\, education\, music and land restitution. Jane has been the Cape Town Partner of the African Food Security Urban Network (AFSUN) since 2008\, and is currently the Research Co-ordinator of the ACC’s Consuming Urban Poverty Project\, and is associated with the Hungry Cities Programme.
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LOCATION:Studio 3\, ENGEO Building\, Upper Campus. University of Cape Town\,\, Cape Town\, Western Cape\, 8001\, South Africa
CATEGORIES:Seminar Series
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SUMMARY:The Informal Economy's Role in Feeding Cities - a Missing Link in Policy Debates?
DESCRIPTION:Food is fundamental not only to well-being\, but to our social and economic lives. Despite this\, one of the biggest challenges facing many people in cities all over the world today is hunger. As cities rapidly urbanise\, different pressures are placed on the food system which has resulted in the least nutritious food being the most affordable. This seminar series will explore the informal economy\, food systems\, food security and urbanisation. \nThe first seminar is entitled ‘The Informal Economy’s Role in Feeding Cities – A Missing Link in Policy Debates?’ and will be presented by Caroline Skinner and Gareth Haysom. \nAbstract \nThe paper starts by considering the genealogy of the term ‘informal sector’ and then reviews the international context – urbanisation trends and the latest estimates on the size and contribution of the informal economy. The former confirm Crush and Frayne’s contention of the likelihood of an urban future for the majority of Africans and latter suggest that informal work is a predominant source of non-agricultural employment on the most regions of the Global South. Attention is then turned to the South African informal economy\, which although smaller than our developing country counterparts\, is still a significant source of employment. The informal economy is thus playing a key role in household income – a key aspect of accessibility\, particularly in urban areas. The paper then outlines the evidence on the informal economies role in food sourcing of poorer households. The paper critically assesses the current food security policy position in South Africa and the post-Apartheid policy response to the informal economy in general both nationally and in key urban centres. We trace a productionist and rural bias in the food security agenda and argue that the policy environment for informal operators is at best benign neglect and at worse actively destructive. \nSpeaker bios \nCaroline Skinner is a Senior Researcher at the African Centre for Cities at the University of Cape Town and Urban Policies Research Director for the global action-research-policy network Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO). For over 15 years\, Skinner’s work has interrogated the nature of the informal economy with a focus on informing advocacy processes and livelihood-centred policy and planning responses. She has published widely on the topic. \nDr Gareth Haysom holds a Ph.D in Environmental and Geographic Sciences from UCT. The focus of his Ph.D was on urban food system governance. Gareth is the southern cities project coordinator for the Hungry Cities Partnership project at the ACC. He also works on the Consuming Urban Poverty research project. \nVenue: Studio 3\, EGS Building\, Upper Campus\, UCT
URL:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/informal-economys-role-feeding-cities-missing-link-policy-debates/
LOCATION:Studio 3\, ENGEO Building\, Upper Campus. University of Cape Town\,\, Cape Town\, Western Cape\, 8001\, South Africa
CATEGORIES:Seminar Series
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SUMMARY:CityLab Symposium
DESCRIPTION:The African Centre for Cities’ CityLab programme facilitates the co-production of policy-relevant knowledge to reduce urban poverty through the engagement of researchers\, government officials and civil society. Started in 2008\, the CityLab programme created a platform for interaction between practitioners and researchers and has generated a wide range of different kinds of knowledge on Cape Town. The CityLab programme also became a core component of Mistra Urban Futures\, a network of institutions involved in the co-production of urban knowledge in five cities around the world. \nPlease join us in reflecting on the Sustainable Human Settlements CityLab\, the Urban Violence\, Safety and Inclusion CityLab\, the Healthy Cities CityLab and the Public Culture CityLab. The co-ordinators of the CityLabs\, Dr Warren Smit\, Dr Mercy Brown-Luthango\, Dr Rike Sitas and Liza Cirolia\, will present key findings from the CityLab process\, followed by a discussion and a light lunch. \nThe symposium will be hosted on 18 August in Studio 3 in the Environmental and Geographical Sciences building on Upper Campus at UCT\, from 10h00 to 13h00\, followed by lunch. \nPlease RSVP to Rike Sitas on rike.sitas@uct.ac.za by 12 August 2016 \nCityLab_Symposium_Invite
URL:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/citylab-symposium/
LOCATION:Studio 3\, ENGEO Building\, Upper Campus. University of Cape Town\,\, Cape Town\, Western Cape\, 8001\, South Africa
CATEGORIES:Conversation
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SUMMARY:‘A House for Dead People’: Memory and spatial transformation in Red Location\, Port Elizabeth
DESCRIPTION:ACC is pleased to be hosting the 2016 Ray Pahl Fellow in Urban Studies\, Dr Naomi Roux\, who will be presenting a paper entitled\, ‘A House for Dead People: Memory and spatial transformation in Red Location\, Port Elizabeth’. \nAbstract \nFollowing the end of apartheid in 1994\, several new projects of public memory and urban development were established in many South African cities. In Port Elizabeth\, the Red Location Museum was opened in 2006\, in a century-old informal settlement with strong histories of resistance activity. The museum was intended to acknowledge the area’s contribution to the liberation struggle\, and contribute to dismantling apartheid urban geographies by producing a tourist and cultural economy. However\, the project was highly contested from its inception by residents who felt that the priority for the neighbourhood should be housing and service delivery. Major housing-related protests erupted on the museums doorstep between 2003 and 2005\, and in late 2013 the new cultural precinct was closed down indefinitely. This paper examines the politics and controversies surrounding the Red Location developments between 1997-2013\, using this case study to consider the ways in which the protests around the museum are deeply rooted in historical and political histories which are made visible through residents’ radical claiming of ownership of the museum building. \n \nBio \nNaomi Roux is an urbanist and visual historian\, with a particular interest in the relationships between collective memory\, the politics of public space and urban transformation. She holds the Ray Pahl Fellowship in Urban Studies at the University of Cape Town’s African Centre for Cities for 2016. Prior to this she was the 2014-2015 Mellon Fellow in Cities and Humanities at LSE Cities. Her recent PhD (Birkbeck\, 2015) focused on the politics of collective memory in the context of the changing post-apartheid city\, using Nelson Mandela Bay in South Africa’s Eastern Cape as a case study. Previous work includes published research and exhibition projects focusing on heritage\, memory and place-making in sites including Kliptown\, Soweto; Yeoville\, Johannesburg; and ‘Little Addis’ in central Johannesburg.
URL:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/house-dead-people-memory-spatial-transformation-red-location-port-elizabeth/
LOCATION:Studio 3\, ENGEO Building\, Upper Campus. University of Cape Town\,\, Cape Town\, Western Cape\, 8001\, South Africa
CATEGORIES:Seminar Series
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SUMMARY:Food and transnational gastronomic culture amongst Cameroonian migrants in Cape Town and The Hague
DESCRIPTION:In this seminar\, post-doctoral fellow at the African Centre for Cities\, Dr Henrietta M Nyamnjoh will present a paper entitled\, ‘This Christmas I go ‘touch’ some fufu and eru”: Food and transnational gastronomic culture amongst Cameroonian migrants in Cape Town and The Hague’. \nAbstract \nMigrants’ relation to ethnic food and their experiences of migration are dynamic processes\, experienced in a multiplicity of ways. This paper focuses on how mobility and migration are fast influencing the global food cultures and how increasingly foods are windows into the ways migrants live\, think\, and identify themselves. Foods are part of migrants’ cultural\, historical and even emotional repertoires. Based on ethnographic research amongst Cameroonian migrants in Cape Town and The Netherlands\, I explore how migrants travel with their gastronomic culture and/or improvise in the absence of ethnic foods. In the Netherlands\, whilst migrants have found ‘home-away-from-home’ through the many shops that sell food from home they still manage to create transnational food chains/links when visiting home. While in Cape Town\, despite these shops the absence of certain foods has prompted migrants to improvise and complement their foods\, it has also given rise to specialised restaurants that provide Cameroonian cuisine. Through this ethnography I maintain that gastronomic culture can be thought of as a strong bond that affirms migrants’ Cameroonian-ness and keeps them attached to the home country. I question too the extent to which mobility and transnationality reconfigure food experiences amongst migrant communities and argue for multiple understandings of how migrants relate to food to the exclusion of their everyday experience. \nBio \nHenrietta Nyamnjoh is a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at African Centre for Cities and Environmental and Geographical Science\, University of Cape Town. Her research focus is on migration\, transnational studies\, migrants and urban transformation and religion. She recently completed a study on the use of Information and Communication Technologies amongst Cameroonian migrants in South Africa\, The Netherlands and Cameroon. The study (Bridging Mobilities: ICTs appropriation by Cameroonians in South Africa and The Netherlands) seeks to understand migrants’ appropriation of the new Information and Communication Technologies to link home and host country and the wider migrant community. She is also the author of “We Get Nothing from Fishing” Fishing for Boat Opportunities Amongst Senegalese Fisher Migrants (2010). She is currently working on transnational families and emotions amongst Cameroonians in Cape Town.
URL:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/food-and-transnational-gastronomic-culture-amongst-cameroonian-migrants-in-cape-town-and-the-hague/
LOCATION:Studio 3\, ENGEO Building\, Upper Campus. University of Cape Town\,\, Cape Town\, Western Cape\, 8001\, South Africa
CATEGORIES:Seminar Series
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SUMMARY:Overcoming water scarcity for good?
DESCRIPTION:Dr Suraya Scheba is an ACC research fellow who will be sharing a paper entitled\, ‘Overcoming water scarcity for good: querying the adoption of desalination technology in the Knysna Local Municipality of South Africa’. \nAbstract \nIn this paper I aim to query the Ecological Modernisation vision of green growth by focusing on the emblematic case of desalination technology as the solution to the threat of water scarcity. I focus the study on a drought crisis\, which resulted in the adoption of desalination in the Eden District Municipality (EDM) of South Africa. Focusing on the towns of Sedgefield and Knysna\, in the Knysna Local Municipality (KLM) of the EDM\, I ask the questions of ‘what\, how\, by whom\, why and to what end was desalination adopted?’. This interrogation is characterised by two movements\, firstly tracing the emergence and form of the crisis – solution consensus; and secondly reading this against an examination of the historical material relations constituting both crisis and solution. The paper is informed by research that was carried out over a period of 11 months\, from October 2011 to August 2012\, during which I undertook 91 semi-structured interviews\, extensive document analysis and participant observation. \nThe twin analytical movement described above is undertaken in five parts. Firstly\, I show that the dominant representation of ‘drought crisis’ insisted upon the indisputability of drought as a threat posed by an externalised nature. Next\, in examining the historical materiality of drought I counter this narrative by showing the drought crisis to be a socio-natural assemblage\, rather than an externalised threatening nature. This is a vital finding\, showing that the support for the adoption of desalination technology as a necessary response to ‘nature’s crisis’\, pivoted on the maintenance of an ideological fiction. In the third part of the paper\, moving on to an examination of the solution\, it emerges that an essential element supporting desalination adoption was the employment of exceptional disaster and environmental legislation\, enabling the urgent release of disaster funding to ensure water security for economic growth. This section also argues that the maintenance of the dominant crisis narrative served to produce a market opportunity for the desalination industry. In the remaining two parts of the paper I evaluate the ‘promise’ of the desalination techno-fix. Through focusing on the conditionality placed on disaster funding and its impact on project assembly\, I argue that the mechanisms and logic through which the solution consensus emerged had a direct bearing on project assembly and consequent problems and costs emerging out of the desalination solution from the outset. In sum\, the paper demonstrates that the adopted E.M. logic was a false promise that served to intensify the penetration of nature by capital\, and resulted in a deeper movement into crisis by moving the problems around as opposed to resolving them. \n \nBio \nSuraya completed her PhD in geography at the University of Manchester (UK). Her doctoral work examined the Ecological Modernisation vision of green growth by focusing on the emblematic case of desalination technology as the solution to the threat of water scarcity. The study was focused on a drought crisis\, which resulted in the adoption of desalination in the Eden District Municipality (EDM) of South Africa\, focusing specifically on the towns of Sedgefield and Knysna\, in the Knysna Local Municipality (KLM) of the EDM. Since May 2015 she works as a post-doctoral research fellow at the African Centre for Cities (ACC) at the University of the Cape Town. In this capacity\, she forms part of a research team concerned with exploring theories and practices of emancipatory change. At one level\, her focus is on leading an in-depth study on Informality\, urban poverty and inequality in the low-income community of Delft\, Cape Town. This study forms part of a larger multi-sited research project\, positioned within a collaborative initiative between a handful of South African Research Chairs working on strategies to overcome poverty and inequality. At another level she will participate in workshops and discussions\, drawing on both grounded findings and theoretical debates\, to build empirically-informed theory and policy related to questions of transformative change.
URL:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/overcoming-water-scarcity-for-good/
LOCATION:Studio 3\, ENGEO Building\, Upper Campus. University of Cape Town\,\, Cape Town\, Western Cape\, 8001\, South Africa
CATEGORIES:Seminar Series
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SUMMARY:Radical Incrementalism & Theories/Practices of Emancipatory Change
DESCRIPTION:This workshop examines ideas of radical incrementalism across our towns and cities. It seeks to explore theories and practices that can support emancipatory change across urban regions through the power of urban dwellers to challenge poverty\, oppression and unjust environments. Such actions and processes take place within and beyond the state and suggest important ways to evaluate prospects for socio-ecological equality across infrastructures\, everyday life and the wider urban condition. \n \nThis workshop is part of a series of conversations that form a collaborative investigation into developing situated ways of undertaking urban political ecology. Each session focuses on different dimensions of critical approaches to urban theory and brings together scholars from different disciplines whose work explores critical understandings of processes of socio-ecological urbanization. We have 17 confirmed participants who will provide a series of keynotes and shorter provocations to support the open debate nature of the workshop. \nSpeakers include: Malini Ranganathan (American University\, Washington D.C.)\, Mark Swilling\, University of Stellenbosch\, Edgar Pieterse (ACC\, UCT)\, Laurence Piper (University of Western Cape)\, Andrew Charman (Sustainable Livelihoods Foundation)\, Jonathan Silver (Durham University)\, and Henrik Ernstson (ACC\, UCT). \n— \nThe workshop starts at 14.00 on Thursday 23rd of October with an afternoon session and keynote by Edgar Pieterse. This is followed by a full day of workshop sessions between 9.00-16.30 on Friday 24th of October\, covering the following themes: “Outlining a radical incrementalism in theory and practice”; “Articulating a radical incrementalism”; “Experiments across infrastructures”; “In and beyond the state”. \nThe event is open to additional students and scholars. Please email Henrik Ernstson (henrik.ernstson@uct.ac.za) or Jonathan Silver (j.d.silver@durham.ac.uk) as soon as possible if you like to attend or have any questions\, or to access detailed background information and schedule. Erin Goodling (Portland State University) will function as rapporteur for this workshop. \n— \nThe workshop is an initiative by the Situated Urban Political Ecologies Collective (#SUPE) and the African Centre for Cities\, University of Cape Town. It forms part of SUPE Year of Conversation 2014. \n 
URL:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/workshop-radical-incrementalism-acc-supe/
LOCATION:Studio 3\, ENGEO Building\, Upper Campus. University of Cape Town\,\, Cape Town\, Western Cape\, 8001\, South Africa
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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SUMMARY:A Brief Symposium on Accessing Land in African Cities
DESCRIPTION:A recently released book called “Trading Places” is about how urban land markets work in African cities. The book explores how local practice\, land governance and markets interact to shape the ways that people at society’s margins access land to build their livelihoods. \nGiven the challenges of poverty and inequality in many African cities\, the authors argue that the problem is not with markets per se\, but in the unequal ways in which market access is structured. Three of the authors\, Rob McGaffin\, Stephen Berrisford and Mark Napier\, will discuss the emergent findings of their investigations into different dimensions of the challenges faced by people accessing land in rapidly urbanising centres. Following these short inputs\, a facilitated discussion will be led by Liza Cirolia from the African Centre for Cities – Human Settlements CityLab. \nNote: this symposium does not replace the official launch which will take place later in the evening at the Book Lounge. Rather\, it seeks to offer a platform to critically engage with the issues and ideas brought forward by this book. There will be a limited number of discounted copies available at the symposium. \n  \nABOUT THE SPEAKERS\nRob McGaffin is a town planner and land economist. He currently lectures in the Department of Construction Economics and Management at the University of Cape Town [UCT] and is a Mistra Urban Futures Researcher with the African Centre for Cities. He is the course director for the Housing Finance Course for Sub-Saharan Africa run in partnership between UCT\, The Centre for Affordable Housing Finance [Finmark Trust] and the Wharton School of Business [University of Pennsylvania]. \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 Professor at the African Centre for Cities at the University of Cape Town and Visiting Professor at the University of the Witwatersrand. \nMark Napier is a Principal Researcher in the Built Environment unit of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) based in Pretoria\, South Africa.  He is an architect by profession\, with a Masters and PhD from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne\, UK. As part of his twenty years’ policy research experience\, Mark spent two years in national government\, setting up a research unit in the Department of Human Settlements\, and seven years managing the Urban Land Markets Programme Southern Africa.
URL:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/brief-symposium-accessing-land-african-cities/
LOCATION:Studio 3\, ENGEO Building\, Upper Campus. University of Cape Town\,\, Cape Town\, Western Cape\, 8001\, South Africa
CATEGORIES:Seminar Series
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