Social exclusion
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Lagos residents illegally evicted in the name of development
Two prominent NGOs have released a report on evictions of Badia East residents during the first phase of a development project. The World Bank is funding the $200 million project in Lagos. Social and Economic Rights Action Center (SERAC) and Amnesty International in their report on the February evictions call on the World Bank to […]
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Re-thinking the homeless narrative in Cape Town
The reality of homelessness in Cape Town is more complicated than the deficiency narrative reproduced so often by wealthy city residents and city officials, writes James Clacherty.
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Safety in the city: Contested spaces in Cape Town’s CCID
How accountable is CCID Safety and Security for their crime prevention initiatives in Cape Town’s central city?
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Creating Loopholes in Capital: The Idea Bank
In modern cities, money operates more as a divider than a connector. Sarah De Villiers explains how architecture can bridge the gaps.
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Access denied
How Gauteng’s gated communities keep insiders in, outsiders out, and leave the national project on the back foot.
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Closed city; Open agenda
Those familiar with Cape Town will know of its mass exodus at four p.m., when most people leave work for home in slow-moving snakes of traffic. Until fairly recently, much of the city center would then stand ghostlike through the night, exuding the air of danger that dark, empty urban spaces tend to. Another thing […]
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Arts switch on in Harare
Last week Harare was the scene of one of the largest, most prestigious urban festivals in Africa. The city hosted the 15th edition of the Harare International Festival of the Arts, better known by its acronym HIFA, and considered by many as the Glastonbury of southern Africa, under the theme “switch on.” During this six-day multidisciplinary festival, which has […]
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IFRA Nairobi: Call for Applications for Fieldwork Grants (2017)
IFRA-Nairobi is offering fieldwork grants to masters and doctoral students to conduct their research in 2017.
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PhD position in Urban Planning, Design and Policy – Politecnico di Milano
PhD position in Urban Planning, Design and Policy development at the Polytecnic of Milan
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Call for Papers: 3rd International Conference on New Urban Languages — Tales and Images of Spatial Justice
Organizers and Scientific Committee invites abstracts for papers to be presented on Third International Conference New Urban Languages to be held June 24-26 June, 2015 in Delft, The Netherlands
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ASMEA – 2015 Research Grants
The Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa (ASMEA) is accepting applications for the 2015 Research Grants Programs. Grants of up to $2500 will be awarded to qualified professors and students engaged in the study of the Middle East and Africa.
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2015 Penn State SWIG Jennifer Fluri and Amy Trauger Paper Competition
Penn State’s Supporting Women In Geography (SWIG) calls for submissions to its annual student essay competition. Recognizing the role of gender, class, sexuality and race in the organization of our everyday lives, SWIG aims to promote and empower individuals within geography by offering a supportive network that sponsors opportunities to grow professionally, intellectually, and personally.
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Call for Applications: 2015 Commonwealth Youth Gender and Equality Network Forum, Malta
The Royal Commonwealth Society is seeking applicants for a five-day forum in Malta, where young people from around the Commonwealth will meet to discuss gender inequality issues.
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Call for contributions to Gender & Development’s March 2015 Issue “Working On Gender Issues In Urban Areas”
G&D is published for Oxfam by Routledge/Taylor and Francis, and is essential reading for international development researchers, policymakers, and practitioners. G&D is currently read in over 90 countries. It is published as an online/print journal at www.tandfonline.com/gad. Content is also available free: access online at www.genderanddevelopment.org Cities are home to over half the world’s people. While they can present […]
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Urban geography and protest mobilization in Africa
This paper provides a comprehensive analysis of the links between urban geography and the incidence of protests in African countries since 1990
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Global report on urban health: equitable, healthier cities for sustainable development
Comprehensive report by the World Health Organisation and UN-Habitat with sections focusing on urban health, planning and urban governance.
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Reconstructing masculinity? A qualitative evaluation of the Stepping Stones and Creating Futures interventions in urban informal settlements in South Africa
This article is a study on interventions that target male masculinity in urban informal settlements in South Africa, and how these have improved livelihoods and encouraged positive social change.
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Sources of inequality in the cost of transport mobility in the city of Yaoundé, Cameroon.
This paper examines the sources of inequality in the cost of transport mobility in the city of Yaoundé, Cameroon.
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Mediating Development? Exchanges on Gender Policies and Development Practices in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
This article examines the ways that gender experts in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, relate to global gender policies and to current approaches to problems of gender in their country.
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Inequalities in child mortality in ten major African cities
The existence of socio-economic inequalities in child mortality is well documented. African cities grow faster than cities in most other regions of the world; and inequalities in African cities are thought to be particularly large. Revealing health-related inequalities is essential in order for governments to be able to act against them.
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“Xenophobia” in South Africa: Order, Chaos, and the Moral Economy of Witchcraft
Jason Hickel (2014). “Xenophobia” in South Africa: Order, Chaos, and the Moral Economy of Witchcraft. Cultural Anthropology, Volume 29, Issue 1, pages 103–127. Abstract This article explores the violent, anti-immigrant riots that swept through informal settlements in South Africa in 2008, during which more than sixty foreigners were killed and more than one hundred thousand […]
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Urban lecture series: How can we transcend slum urbanism in Africa?
Edgar Pieterse in this lecture argues that data about economic incorporation into the labour market and living conditions demonstrate that the majority of African urban dwellers live in conditions of vulnerability, and that economic insecurity reinforces slum living and makes it difficult for states to access sufficient tax revenues to address a variety of urban […]
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The child health implications of privatizing Africa’s urban water supply
Identifying policies which can improve water sector management is critically important given the global burden of water-related disease. Each year, 1 in 10 child deaths—roughly 800,000 in total—is the direct result of diarrhea. Can private-sector participation (PSP) in the urban piped water sector improve child health? The author uses child-level data from 39 African countries […]
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‘Men value their dignity’: securing respect and identity construction in urban informal settlements in South Africa
Background: Urban informal settlements remain sites of high HIV incidence and prevalence, as well as violence. Increasing attention is paid to how configurations of young men’s masculinities shape these practices through exploring how men build respect and identity. In this paper, we explore how young Black South Africans in two urban informal settlements construct respect […]