South African Research Chair in Spatial Analysis and City Planning

02/05/2024

If you are potentially interested in being an editor on African Studies journal, we are looking for someone to join the team!

https://think.taylorandfrancis.com/editor_recruitment/editor-or-co-editors-needed-for-african-studies/

Happy to chat if anyone has any questions!

Editor or Co-Editors needed for African Studies Deadline31 May 2024 Apply About the role African Studies is currently recruiting for a co-editor to join the existing team. This role is a great opportunity for an academic with a strong research background in social sciences and humanities research in...

29/02/2024

Congratulations to the always amazing Claire Benit-Gbaffou on publishing your edited book: www.uclpress.co.uk/LocalOfficials with contributions from Philip Harrison, Sarah Charlton, Neil Klug, Mamokete Modiba, Laila Smith, Nicolette Pingo, Mary Galvin and even a small contribution of my own on Bureaucratic activism for inclusionary development in the City of Johannesburg. Free to download too!

Why are even progressive local authorities with the ‘will to improve’ seldom able to change cities? Why does it seem almost impossible to redress spatial inequalities, deliver and maintain basic services, elevate impoverished areas and protect the marginalised communities? Why do municipalities ...

22/02/2024

Politics of the Periphery edited by Pierre Hamel is the newest title in our Global Suburbanisms series. with our (Alison Todes and Alan Mabin) chapter What a Difference a Metro Makes! Or Did It? Suburbanization and Local Government Consolidation in Johannesburg
Margot Rubin, Alison Todes, and Alan Mabin
Learn more: https://bit.ly/48fpGPk

New urban forms characterizing contemporary metropolises reflect a certain continuity with the patterns of the past. They also include unexpected forms of se...

12/07/2021

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01/06/2021

Applications are now open for masters and Phds 2022 with our Chair!

29/04/2021

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29/04/2021

Call for Phds for our exciting off the grid cities project with the Gauteng City Region Observatory, University of the Western Cape, Cambridge and University of Edinburgh

18/04/2021

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This is a call for recent doctoral graduates to apply for two Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in the NRF Off-Grid Cities project. There are two positions available, one located at the University of the Western Cape in the Department of Political Studies, in Cape Town, and the other at the Gauteng....

31/03/2021

A great podcast on The urban politics of density in and beyond the pandemic with Colin MColin McFarlane and Hung-Ying Chen from Durham University, Roger Keil at York University, Lucía Cerrada Morato from Tower Hamlets Council, London and Margot Rubin, from SA Research Chair in Spatial Analysis and City Planning. This podcast explores how the pandemic is changing density around the world and generating forms of politics. and can be found at:

This podcast explores how the pandemic is changing density around the world and generating forms of politics. With a diverse group of scholars and practitioners from around the world, the podcast addresses the following specific questions/ themes: How should density be conceived and why is it import...

26/03/2021

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16/03/2021

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The South African Research Chair in Spatial Analysis and City Planning would like to invite you to the launch of two books:

The Agonistic City? State Society Strife In Johannesburg by SA&CP's former post-doctoral fellow, Li Pernegger.

Densifying the City? Global Cases and Johannesburg edited by Margot Rubin, Alison Todes, Philip Harrison and Alexandra Appelbaum.

Date: 23 March 2021
Time: 16:00 for 16:30
Venue: Wits Club, West Campus, Wits University

Please RSVP to [email protected] by 18 March for COVID compliance requirements and catering.