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SUMMARY:Friction in the Creative City: The Case of Bandung\, Indonesia
DESCRIPTION:Join the African Centre for Cities for a Brownbag session on 29 January 2018 from 12:45 to 14:00 by Christiaan De Beukelaer on “Friction in the Creative City: The Case of Bandung\, Indonesia” hosted in Studio 5\, Environmental and Geographical Science Building\, Upper Campus\, University of Cape Town. \nSince the foundation of the Bandung Creative City Forum (BCCF) in 2008\, the city of Bandung\, capital of West Java has started referring to itself as an ‘emerging creative city’. Because of the significant role BCCF\, a civil society organisation\, played in developing this strategy\, Bandung relied far less on top-down\, consultant-driven strategies than most ‘creative cities’. While their largely bottom-up engagement with the ‘creative city script’ was well-received\, the practical execution of their ideas poses challenges in terms of negotiating priorities and strategies. The implementation became more complex and complicated when Ridwan Kamil\, BCCF’s first director\, was elected Mayor in 2013. The ensuing tensions concealed two important questions: What is the creative city? How to execute creative city strategies? Rather than engaging with these unspoken questions\, Bandung has become a creative city of many definitions and strategies\, while maintaining its singular brand. I explain the ensuing ‘friction’ (Tsing 2005) in two overlapping ways. First\, I contrast two notions of the creative city by building on the work of geographer Oli Mould. His book Urban Subversion and the Creative City distinguishes the uppercase ‘Creative City’ (the mainstream understanding of the term) – and the lowercase ‘creative city’ (the more grounded\, subversive understanding of the term). Second\, I build on the work of geographer Jamie Peck\, who critiques the global flow of ‘policy-fixes’ as being prone to becoming ‘fast policy’ (often captured in buzzwords)\, which inevitably collides with ‘slow policy’ of existing bureaucracies and power structures. \n  \nMore on the speaker and respondent: \nChristiaan De Beukelaer is a Lecturer in Cultural Policy at the University of Melbourne. He obtained a PhD from the University of Leeds and holds degrees in development studies (MSc\, Leuven)\, cultural studies (MA\, Leuven)\, and musicology (BA\, Amsterdam). He won the 2012 Cultural Policy Research Award\, which resulted in the book Developing Cultural Industries: Learning From the Palimpsest of Practice (European Cultural Foundation\, 2015). He co-edited the book Globalization\, Culture\, and development: The UNESCO Convention on Cultural Diversity (Palgrave Macmillan\, 2015\, with Miikka Pyykkönen and JP Singh)\, and a special issue on Cultural Policy for Sustainable Development for the International Journal of Cultural Policy (2017\, 23(2)\, with Anita Kangas and Nancy Duxbury). He is now working on the book Global Cultural Economy (co-authored with Kim-Marie Spence\, forthcoming with Routledge). \nLaura Nkula-Wenz is an urban geographer with a keen interest in postcolonial urban theory\, African urbanism and culture. Her research focuses on the transformation of urban governance and the construction of local political agency\, as well as the diverse relationships between cultural production and urban change. She holds a PhD in Geography from the University of Münster/Germany\, where she also completed a degree in Human Geography\, Communication Studies and Political Science. Laura recently completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Pôle de recherche pour l’organisation et la diffusion de l’information géographique (Prodig) in Paris and currently works on the Critical Urbanism Masters at the African Centre for Cities (UCT\, in cooperation with the University of Basel).
URL:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/friction-creative-city-case-bandung-indonesia/
LOCATION:Studio 5\, Environmental and Geographical Science\, Upper Campus\, UCT\,\, Cape Town\, 8001\, South Africa
CATEGORIES:Brownbags
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SUMMARY:Mainstreaming Urban Safety & Inclusion in South Africa
DESCRIPTION:A four-day course for municipal officials and other practitioners to discuss violence and its prevention\, key concepts\, safer cities strategies\, policy frameworks\, urban upgrading for violence prevention\, and associated methodologies. A day-long field trip will observe measures taken in practice. \nThe focus will be on mainstreaming issues of safety and inclusion in South African urban policy and practice. The spotlight is on the relationship between urbanisation\, informality and violence. \nThe pilot course is convened by ACC’s Dr Mercy Brown-Luthango\, with input from VPUU (Michael Krause\, Jakub Galuska and other work stream leaders) and GIZ/VCP (Terence Smith and Christiane Erkens). \nThe event is funded by GIZ.
URL:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/mainstreaming-urban-safety-inclusion-in-south-africa/
LOCATION:Studio 5\, Environmental and Geographical Science\, Upper Campus\, UCT\,\, Cape Town\, 8001\, South Africa
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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SUMMARY:Politics\, informality and clientelism
DESCRIPTION:In her paper “Politics\, informality and clientelism – exploring a pro-poor urban politics” Diana Mitlin explores what we have learnt about how to instigate\, negotiate or otherwise secure pro-poor government in towns and cities of the global South. With competition for scarce resources\, the processes of urban development and specifically the acquisition of land and basic services are intensely political. While the nature of urban poverty differs\, there is a consistent set of needs related to residency in informal settlements; tenure is insecure and there is a lack of access to basic services\, infrastructure\, and sometimes other entitlements. Households and communities have to negotiate these collective consumption goods in a context in which political relations are primarily informal with negotiations that take place away from the transparent and accountable systems of ‘modern’ government. Clientelist bargaining prevails. Much of the existing literature is polarised either critiquing clientelism for its consequences\, or arguing that it has been dismissed without any grounded assessment of what might take its place and any considered analysis of what it has managed to deliver. \nAbout the Speaker: \nDiana Mitlin is principle researcher in the Human Settlements Group of the International Institute for Environment and Development. Her areas of research interest and expertise include urban poverty\, poverty reduction\, community development and civil society. Her current work focuses on collaboration with grassroots organization and support agencies to improve urban neighbourhoods (land tenure\, basic services and housing). Before starting with IIED she worked as an economist for the UK Government and has also taught at the Institute for Development Policy and Management at the University of Manchester. \nAdvance Reading: ESID working paper_Mitlin
URL:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/politics-informality-clientelism-exploring-pro-poor-urban-politics/
LOCATION:Studio 5\, Environmental and Geographical Science\, Upper Campus\, UCT\,\, Cape Town\, 8001\, South Africa
CATEGORIES:Seminar Series
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SUMMARY:Sub-Saharan Africa's New Suburbs
DESCRIPTION:Remaking the Edges: Sub-Saharan Africa’s New Suburbs — This paper examines the edge areas of Lusaka\, based on fieldwork from 2013\, as a broad example of the trajectory of urban expansion at the new urban frontiers in Sub-Saharan Africa. I emphasize four themes: (1) the significance of new foreign investment in urban frontier zones (particularly from China); (2) the bifurcated character of the expansion; (3) the rise of surveillance technologies; and (4) the endurance of continuities with European colonialism. \nAbout the Speaker:\nGarth Myers is the Paul E. Raether Distinguished Professor of Urban International Studies at Trinity College. He is Director of the Urban Studies Program. A geographer with thirty years of research experience on and in African cities\, Myers teaches courses in both urban studies and international studies at Trinity. Myers has contributed to the growth of urban studies and geography research on the continent\, through 5 books and more than 60 articles and book chapters. His most recent book is African Cities: Alternative Visions of Urban Theory and Practice (London: Zed Books\, 2011).
URL:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/garth-myers-remaking-edges-sub-saharan-africas-new-suburbs/
LOCATION:Studio 5\, Environmental and Geographical Science\, Upper Campus\, UCT\,\, Cape Town\, 8001\, South Africa
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20140320T130000
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SUMMARY:Paula Meth — Producing ‘decent’ cities: gender and urban upgrading
DESCRIPTION:Dr Paula Meth is a lecturer in Town and Regional Planning at the University of Sheffield. Her research interests cover the areas of gender and violence\, informal housing\, crime management\, inequality and injustice\, governance\, local politics and everyday power relations\, all focusing on the global South\, particularly South Africa\,. Her current research focusses on the contributions made by citizens both in challenging and managing social problems but is also in the broader impact of national and global trends towards neo-liberalism and their effect on local participation. Her work is informed by ongoing debates within Feminism and Development Studies\, as well as moves within Planning to broaden and re-examine the terms of reference of planners and their relationship with broader society. Also related to this work is an ongoing interest in developing qualitative methodology\, in particular making use of diaries to inform the research process. \nThis seminar is presented jointly by the UCT EGS Department and ACC
URL:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/academic-seminar-paula-meth/
LOCATION:Studio 5\, Environmental and Geographical Science\, Upper Campus\, UCT\,\, Cape Town\, 8001\, South Africa
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20140307T150000
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SUMMARY:Analysing regional development and policy: A structural-realist approach
DESCRIPTION:Professor Frank Moulaert will discuss his paper titled Analysing regional development and policy: A structural-realist approach\, which he co-authored with Abid Mehmood. The paper gives an overview of theories and models which can be used to analyse regional development as well as to design policies and strategies for the future of regions and localities. It evaluates the analytical and policy relevance of these models\, and as it moves towards analytical synthesis\, makes some recommendations for a structural realist approach to spatial development analysis. \nAbout the speaker\nProfessor Frank Moulaert (frankmoulaert.net) is Professor of Spatial Planning\, Head of the Planning and Development Unit and Chairman of the Leuven Research Centre on Space and Society at the Faculty of Engineering\, KU Leuven\, Belgium. He was the Academic Coordinator of the Policy Research Centre ‘Spatial Planning and Housing’ of the Flemish Region (2007-2011). His research covers urban and regional development\, social science theories and methods\, but especially social innovation. He has coordinated six Framework projects (SOCIAL POLIS\, KATARSIS\, DEMOLOGOS\, SINGOCOM\, VALICORES\, URSPIC) and has worked on a number of regional\, national and international research platforms in the course of his academic career. Ongoing research includes: governance of socio-ecological systems (role of social innovation); and\, operationalizing sustainable lifestyles through social innovation; transdisciplinary research on spatial quality\, governance systems and food webs.  Before coming to Leuven he was a Professor at USTL (Lille\, France) and Newcastle University (UK). \nDownload the paper here \n 
URL:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/academic-seminar-frank-moulaert-analysing-regional-development-structural-realist-approach/
LOCATION:Studio 5\, Environmental and Geographical Science\, Upper Campus\, UCT\,\, Cape Town\, 8001\, South Africa
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