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‘Displace, Dump and Cage?’: Contested logics of formalization of street trading in Harare and Kumasi
Recommended Citation Bandauko, E., & Asante, L. A. (2026). ‘Displace, Dump and Cage?’: Contested logics of formalization of street tradi...
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Wetland gentrification in African cities: Implications for urban governance, planning, and theory
While studies in the global North have focused on ‘green gentrification’ driven by park developments and eco-friendly initiatives, a different phenomenon is unfolding in rapidly urbanizing African cities.
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Land tenure in secondary cities: discourses, practices, and social representations
Building on empirical findings of former projects (spread over the years, from 2014 to 2023), the research project aims at conceiving land tenure otherwise, deviating from standard approaches by putting the articulation of interests and claims first; tracing how actors relate to each other and how they try to make their own claims heard and recognized by others.
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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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Contemporary urbanism on three continents - a study of the city regions of Dar es Salaam (Tanzania), Gauteng (South Africa), São Paulo (Brasil) and Paris (France)
In ‘urban studies’, a varied area of research that crosses over many disciplines, two contemporary areas of focus that attract much attention are ‘southern urbanism’; and comparison of cities.
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Power, Patronage and the Informal Sector: co-optation and coercion in state-society relations in Zimbabwe and Zambia
This project will use a multi-site comparative design to explore how ruling parties in Zambia (and Zimbabwe) extend their reach through dispensing ‘public’ goods such as market and bus stalls as well as housing developments to rule by co-optation rather than coercion in increasingly adverse political or economic climates.
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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. Af...
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Urban States: The Presidency and Planning in Luanda, Angola
Gastrow, Claudia. 2020. Urban States: The Presidency and Planning in Luanda, Angola. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 1...
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Inserting rights and justice into urban resilience: a focus on everyday risk
Ziervogel, Gina, Mark Pelling, Anton Cartwright, Eric Chu, Tanvi Deshpande, Leila Harris, Keith Hyams, Jean Kaunda, Benjamin Klaus, Kavya Mi...
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Managing cities and resolving conflicts: Local people’s attitudes towards urban planning in Kumasi, Ghana
Cobbinah, Patrick B. 2017. Managing cities and resolving conflicts: Local people’s attitudes towards urban planning in Kumasi, Ghana. Land U...
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Locating the role of urbanites in solid waste management in Ghana
Cobbinah, Patrick B., Michael Addaney and Kwasi Osei Agyeman. 2017. Locating the role of urbanites in solid waste management in Ghana. Envir...
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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/pr...
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Negotiated resilience
Harris, Leila M., Eric K. Chu & Gina Ziervogel. 2018. Negotiated resilience, Resilience, 6:3, 196-214, DOI: 10.1080/21693293.2017.1353196
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The readiness of South African law and policy for the pursuit of Sustainable Development Goal 11
Du Plessis, Anél. 2018. The readiness of South African law and policy for the pursuit of Sustainable Development Goal 11. Law, Democracy & D...
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Planning the new, better city –Fear and safety in policy and practice
Kiruna, the northernmost city in Sweden, is constructed around a classic industrial source of production – the prosperous mine.
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System Change Africa: Evolution not revolution
Finding an African way of dealing with African urbanism: Complexity theory and systems thinking show how governments and people can work together to achieve something that neither could ever achieve alone.
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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.