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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
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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/
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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
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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
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