- Nationality
- 🇿🇦 South Africa
- Affiliation
- African Centre for Cities, University of Cape Town
- Residencies at STIAS
- 2013 2nd Semester / 2024 2nd Semester
Projects
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Conjuring majorities: Life, infrastructure, and relational politics in the urban South
A joint book manuscript ‘Conjuring majorities: life, infrastructure, and relational politics in the urban South’ (with AbdouMaliq Simone) will be completed. -
Urbanist at Large: Iterating an Urban Sensibility
The STIAS Fellowship will be used to define a new field of research for the next four years.
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Event
Refractions of the National, the Popular, and the Global in African cities
The Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study (STIAS) and the African Centre for Cities (ACC) will jointly host a conference on Refractions of the National, the Popular, and the Global in African cities at the Wallenberg Research Centre in Stellenbosch (South Africa) on Monday 31 July & Tuesday 1 August 2017.
Event
Refractions of the National, the Popular and the Global in African Cities
This volume edited by Simon Bekker, Sylvia Croese and Edgar Pieterse draws together case studies of metropolitan cities in nine African countries that explore the interrelated themes of the national influence on urban development, the popular dynamics that shape urban development and the global currents on urban development.
Event
Age of the City: Why Our Future will be Won or Lost Together
Register here by 4 March 2024 You are invited to join us in person for a book discussion and launch of STIAS Fellow Ian Goldin’s latest work, Age of the City, on Wednesday 6 March at 5pm.
Publication
Africa’s Urban Revolution
Susan Parnell and Edgar Pieterse (Editors). 2014. Africa’s Urban Revolution. Zed Books (London & New York, x + 309 pp). ISBN: 978-1-78-032520-0
Publication
New Urban Worlds: Inhabiting Dissonant Times
Simone, AbdouMaliq and Edgar Pieterse. 2017. New Urban Worlds: Inhabiting Dissonant Times. Wiley. http://eu.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0745691...
Publication
Refractions of the National, the Popular and the Global in African Cities
Bekker, Simon, Sylvia Croese and Edgar Pieterse. (Eds.). 2021. Refractions of the National, the Popular and the Global in African Cities. African Minds. ht...