VACANCY: AMALI Data Programme Operations Manager
The African Centre for Cities (ACC) at the University of Cape Town invite applications for a full time Operations Manager for a two-year period.
Intersections on the periphery: the Good City in a Time of Crisis
Andrew Tucker, African Centre for Cities, University of Cape Town (South Africa),Shriya Anand, Indian Institute for Human Settlements (India), and Colin McFarlane, Durham University (United Kingdom), are curating a new seminar series entitled Intersections on the periphery: the Good City in a Time of Crisis, funded by the Urban Studies Foundation.
VACANCY: AMALI Communications Officer
The African Centre for Cities is seeking to appoint Communications Officer for the African Mayoral Leadership Initiative (AMALI)
Call for applications for UTA-Do 2024
Calling all early-career academics, researchers, activists, and artists interested in urban theory in Africa! Apply now to be a part of the third UTA-Do African Cities Workshop in 2024, to be hosted in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (29 Jan to 2 Feb 2024).
Call for applications for PhD scholarship
As part of this project on Smartness as Wealth, funded by the Volkswagen Foundation, the ACC is seeking to recruit a full-time PhD candidate who will undertake rigorous and critical work on fintech and inclusion in the context of Nairobi
EDP and ACC – collaboration for transformative urban learning
In April, 2023, the African Centre for Cities and the Economic Development Partnership (EDP) began a new collaboration. This partnership, building on a decade-long relationship between the two organisations, focuses on building knowledge from, with, and for urban practice.
News
VACANCY: AMALI Data Programme Operations Manager
The African Centre for Cities (ACC) at the University of Cape Town invite applications for a full time Operations Manager for a two-year period.
Intersections on the periphery: the Good City in a Time of Crisis
Andrew Tucker, African Centre for Cities, University of Cape Town (South Africa),Shriya Anand, Indian Institute for Human Settlements (India), and Colin McFarlane, Durham University (United Kingdom), are curating a new seminar series entitled Intersections on the periphery: the Good City in a Time of Crisis, funded by the Urban Studies Foundation.
VACANCY: AMALI Communications Officer
The African Centre for Cities is seeking to appoint Communications Officer for the African Mayoral Leadership Initiative (AMALI)
Call for applications for UTA-Do 2024
Calling all early-career academics, researchers, activists, and artists interested in urban theory in Africa! Apply now to be a part of the third UTA-Do African Cities Workshop in 2024, to be hosted in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (29 Jan to 2 Feb 2024).
Call for applications for PhD scholarship
As part of this project on Smartness as Wealth, funded by the Volkswagen Foundation, the ACC is seeking to recruit a full-time PhD candidate who will undertake rigorous and critical work on fintech and inclusion in the context of Nairobi
Vacancy: Strategic Communications Manager
The African Centre for Cities seeks to appoint a Strategic Communications Manager. The main purpose of the Strategic Communications Manager is to deliver strategic communications outcomes for the African Centre for Cities.
Research
Epistemic Justice and the Postcolonial University
Edited by Amrita Pande, Ruchi Chaturvedi and Shari Daya, Epistemic Justice and the Postcolonial University, addresses urgent current debates on decolonisation by offering reimagined teaching and learning interventions for obtaining greater epistemic justice in the contemporary postcolonial university.
New book on reconstructing the future for people and planet
Reconstructing the Future: Cities as Carbon Sink, compiles the papers presented by world-renowned scientists, architects, spatial planners, activists, and policy makers at the Reconstructing the Future for People and Planet conference, held at the Vatican in June 2022.
Strategic Paper: Climate Infrastructure & City Governments: A Strategic Framework For African City-Labs
“Climate Infrastructure & City Governments: A Strategic Framework For African City-Labs”, provides a framework to support the development of ‘city-labs’ in African cities.
Case Report: Fintech and motorcycle platform services in Cape Town, South Africa: legacy capital, retail extension and growing experimentation
This case report by Alicia Fortuin, as part of the Platform Politics and Silicon Savannah project, explores fintech and motorcycle platform services in Cape Town, South Africa.Â
Case Report: Fintech and paratransit in Kigali, Rwanda: uniformity, gaps and speculative pilots
This case report by Alexis Sebarenzi, as part of the Platform Politics and Silicon Savannahs project, explores fintech and paratransit in Kigali, Rwanda.
Events
Call for applications for UTA-Do 2024
Calling all early-career academics, researchers, activists, and artists interested in urban theory in Africa! Apply now to be a part of the third UTA-Do African Cities Workshop in 2024, to be hosted in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (29 Jan to 2 Feb 2024).
Call for participation: UTA-Do African Cities Workshop 2023
Calling all early-career academics, researchers, activists, and artists interested in urban theory in Africa! Apply now to be a part of the second UTA-DO African Cities Workshop in 2023.Â
POWER TALKS: a space for conversation about power in the creative and cultural sectors in South Africa
A multidisciplinary, multi-site programme in Gqeberha & Bhisho, Durban, Cape Town and Johannesburg, which allows for a disruption of the performativity of critical debate that often skirts dissensus and discomfort in the dissection of power.
Laying the Table for a Better Food System
Urban Food Systems is one of the key thematics of ACC’s research, and we seeks different ways and platforms to…
Reconstructing the future for people and planet
The Pontifical Academy of Sciences (PAS) and Bauhaus Earth bring together world-renowned practitioners and thinkers on crucial dimensions of the…
CALL FOR PAPERS | African Infrastructure Futures: Urban research, debates and priorities
The African Centre for Cities will be hosting a three-day conference entitled African Infrastructural Futures: Urban research, debates and priorities,…
