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SUMMARY:Book launch: High Stakes\, High Hopes
DESCRIPTION:The African Centre for Cities\, University of Georgia Press and The Book Lounge invite you to the launch of High Stakes\, High Hopes: Urban Theorizing in Partnership by Sophie Oldfield. \nSophie will be in conversation with Shireen Square\, Valhalla Park resident and Anna Selmeczi\, from the African Centre for Cities. \nHigh Stakes\, High Hopes tracks the building of urban theorizing in a decade-long urban research and teaching partnership in Cape Town\, South Africa. An argument for collaborative urbanism\, this book reflects on what was at stake in the partnership and its creative\, and at times\, conflictive\, evolution. Oldfield explores how research and assessment were reshaped when framed in neighborhood questions and commitments\, and what was reoriented in urban theorizing when community activism and township struggles were recognized as sites of valid knowledge-making. \nWHEN | Tuesday\, 29 October 2024 \nTIME | 17H30 – 19H00 \nVENUE | The Book Lounge\, 71 Roeland Street\, Cape Town \nPlease RSVP here
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LOCATION:The Book Lounge\, 71 Roeland Street\, Cape Town\, South Africa
CATEGORIES:Launch
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SUMMARY:Book Launch - Apartheid Remains by Sharad Chari
DESCRIPTION:UKZN Press\, The Book Lounge and the African Centre for Cities invite you to the launch of ‘Apartheid Remains’ by Sharad Chari. \nSharad will be in conversation with Omar Badsha and Caroline Skinner. \nDATE | Thursday\, 18 July 2024 \nTIME| 17h30 for 18h00 \nVENUE | The Book Lounge\, 71 Roeland Str\, Cape Town \nRSVP | booklounge@gmail.com \nAbout the book: \nIn Apartheid Remains\, Sharad Chari explores how people handle the remains of segregation and apartheid in South Africa as witnessed through portals in an industrial-residential landscape in the Indian Ocean city of Durban. Through long-term historical and ethnographic research\, Chari portrays South Africa’s twentieth century as a palimpsest that conserves the remains of multiple pasts\, including attempts by the racial state to remake territory and personhood while instead deepening spatial contradictions and struggles. \nWhen South Durban’s denizens collectively mobilised in various ways – through Black Consciousness politics and other attempts at refusing the ruinous articulation of biopolitics\, sovereignty and capital – submerged traditions of the Indian Ocean and the Black Atlantic offered them powerful resources. Of these\, Chari reads Black documentary photography as particularly insightful audiovisual blues critique. At the tense interface of Marxism\, feminism and Black study\, he offers a method and form of geography attentive to the spatial and embodied remains of history. Apartheid Remains looks out from South Durban to imaginations of abolition of all forms of racial capitalism and environmental suffering that define our planetary predicament. \nSharad Chari is Associate Professor of Geography and Critical Theory at the University of California\, Berkeley; Research Associate at the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research (WiSER); and author of Gramsci at Sea and Fraternal Capital: Peasant-Workers\, Self-Made Men\, and Globalization in Provincial India. \nApartheid Remains is published by UKZN Press.
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LOCATION:The Book Lounge\, 71 Roeland Street\, Cape Town\, South Africa
CATEGORIES:Launch
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20191119T173000
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SUMMARY:Relaunch: Cityscapes Magazine
DESCRIPTION:African Centre for Cities invites you to the relaunch of Cityscapes Magazine on 19 November 2019\, 17:30 at The Book Lounge. The new issue is themed ‘Passages’ is a collection of stories that explore the nature(s) of movement\, the impact it has on how we live and who we are\, as well as the lives that are made – mobile and immobile – after the passage. \nPeople move. That is what we do. We move our bodies\, move house\, neighbourhood; we move across and through borders. We move because we want to and sometimes because we need to. To be with or away from family\, to adventure and experience new things\, on pilgrimage\, to escape\, learn\, and sometimes to return home when it calls us. We move through space\, we move up(becoming wealthier\, more affluent)\,down (becoming materially more impoverished)\, we also move ideas and resources. We move to work\, to search\, to find\, and sometimes to lose. \nWe move… It’s in our nature and has been since time immemorial. \nYet\, as the world becomes better connected\, moving has become a challenging and divisive experience at every scale you can imagine. We are building and strengthening physical borders to keep those we feel are “not worthy” from occupying the same spaces we do\, while inviting the “desirable” – the educated\, “clever”\, connected\, wealthy and talented – in. Our interest is in where people move to\, and why. Also\, how ideas and capital circulate\, traverse borders\, and what the impacts are once “there”. This is the reason we have produced this issue. The ninth issue of Cityscapes and our new tagline—Urbanism Beyond Geography—marks a re-launch\, after a hiatus (of sorts). \nAs the abundance of figures being released on the topic attests\, we have been moving to cities – everywhere. The magnetism of places larger than where we are from has attracted legions – for centuries – and is now just part of the human story. Cities are not a new construct\, and moving to them is really not that new a phenomenon. What’s different is the scale. In many economies\, cities are the places where opportunities lie\, where dreams can be fulfilled—or dashed\, but still given a chance—if you’re one of the lucky ones. We will always move to such places. Some inner instinct demands that we do. \nWhat we have to figure out is how we live together once we get there. How the resources we have can be more equitably shared\, and what we do when they are not. What do we do when the assets we have fuel distributional conflicts\, understandably\, with those who have been dealt a bad hand and have little to lose? \nWe have dug up stories that explore the nature(s) of movement\, the impact it has on how we live and who we are\, as well as the lives that are made – be they mobile or immobile – after the passage. It seems we move so that we are able to move some more. We move so we can “do better”\, jump from one station in life to another. We become mobile hoping that it will expand our choices and send us ever onward. \nBetween these covers\, we have tried to explore the question of what happens when we move to where we desire\, or leave where we cannot be any more. In a “new” place\, whether it’s for the short or long haul\, how do we keep the ideas we hold dear? How do we\, as “newcomers”\, maintain the cultures that define us? How can we embrace our new situation in a manner that changes both us and our new settings? \nOften\, the “new” is old too. It seeks to hold on to its idea of self and wants to be loved and embraced on its own terms. It does not want to lose itself to the influence of newcomers – reinforcements of sorts – that\, willingly or not\, are its lifeblood. \n 
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LOCATION:The Book Lounge\, 71 Roeland Street\, Cape Town\, South Africa
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SUMMARY:LAUNCH: 'Tomatoes & Taxi Ranks: Running our Cities to Fill the Food Cap'
DESCRIPTION:Join ACC for the Cape Town launch of Tomatoes & Taxi Ranks: Running our Cities to Fill the Food Gap\, by Leonie Joubert with Jane Battersby and Vanessa Watson published by the African Centre for Cities on Wednesday\, 21 November 2018\, 17:30 for 18:00 at The Book Lounge\, 71 Roeland Street\, Cape Town. Author Leonie Joubert will be in conversation with Nancy Richards. \nThe book is based on research conducted by the Consuming Urban Poverty team comprised of urban geographers\, sociologists\, economists and planners from the African Centre for Cities (ACC) at the University of Cape Town\, Copperbelt University in Zambia\, the University of Zimbabwe\, and the Kisumu Local Interaction Platform (KLIP)\, in Kisumu\, Kenya. \nTomatoes & Taxi Ranks\, illustrated with evocative photography by Samantha Reinders and Masixole Feni\, distills the research into a digestible read and is published alongside the academic book Urban Food Systems Governance and Poverty in African Cities (Routledge\, 2018) edited by Jane Battersby and Vanessa Watson. \nBoth book are available as Open Access downloads from www.tomatoesandtaxiranks.org.za \nHard copies of the book are available for purchase from The Book Lounge for R150. All proceeds are donated to the Open Box School Library project.
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