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This House Is Not for Sale
Current research explores land, home, and community in South Africa through a sociological lens.
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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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Cape Town Harmonies: Memory, Humour and Resilience
Gaulier, Armelle and Denis-Constant Martin. 2017. Cape Town Harmonies: Memory, Humour and Resilience. African Minds. https://www.africanmind...
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In the Skin of the City: Spatial Transformation in Luanda
Tomás, António. 2022. In the Skin of the City: Spatial Transformation in Luanda. Duke University Press. https://www.dukeupress.edu/in-the-sk...
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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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Conviviality at the Crossroads
Hemer, Oscar, Maja Povrzanović Frykman and Per-Markku Ristilammi. (Eds.). 2020. Conviviality at the Crossroads. Cham: Springer International...
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Urban Connections in African Popular Imaginaries
The study of popular culture in Africa illustrates that ordinary African residents in urban settings use their local specificities to create popular forms of African cultural production that respond in innovative ways to global cultural imports.
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Africa’s Urban Revolution
Susan Parnell and Edgar Pieterse (Editors). 2014. Africa’s Urban Revolution. Zed Books (London & New York, x + 309 pp). ISBN: 978-1-78-03252...
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Introduction to Special Section on Ivan Vladislavic: Ivan Vladislavic – Writing Sideways
Beilharz, P and S Supski. 2016. Introduction to Special Section on Ivan Vladislavic: Ivan Vladislavic – Writing Sideways. Thesis Eleven 136(...
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Finding Ivan Vladislavic – Writing the City
Beilharz, Peter and Sian Supski. 2016. Finding Ivan Vladislavic – Writing the City. Thesis Eleven 136(1):5–19. http://the.sagepub.com/cgi/do...
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Ivan Vladislavic – A Tale in Two Cities
Beilharz, Peter and Sian Supski. 2016. Ivan Vladislavic – A Tale in Two Cities. Thesis Eleven 136(1):20–30. http://the.sagepub.com/cgi/doi/1...
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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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African Markets and the Utu-buntu Business Model: A Perspective in Economic Informality in Nairobi
Kinyanjui, Mary Njeri. 2019. African Markets and the Utu-buntu Business Model: A Perspective in Economic Informality in Nairobi. Cape Town: ...
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A History of the Nighttime in South Africa
This project is a book-length study of the history of the nighttime in South Africa during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
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Everyday Authoritarianism: Urban Life and Politics in Luanda, Angola
This project poses the question of how authoritarian politics systems institutionalise themselves through everyday life.
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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.