DAAD Call for Scholarship Applications 2024 – MPhil Southern Urbanism
The African Centre for Cities, through Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) are calling for scholarship applications for 2024.Â
ACC partners with Big Win on initiative to catalyse the transformation of cities in Africa
African Centre for Cities has partnered with Big Win Philanthropy on a ground-breaking initiative to catalyse the transformation of cities in Africa: the African Mayoral Leadership Initiative (AMALI).
The Ideas Festival: Re-imaging Infrastructure
As part of the African Infrastructure Futures Conference, the African Centre for Cities (University of Cape Town) and the Urban Futures Studio (Utrecht University), have mounted an exhibition of 10 case studies showcasing inspiring examples of infrastructure innovation from across the continent.
Community Engagement: A Practical Workbook for Local Government Practitioners
Community Engagement: A Practical Workbook for Local Government Practitioners, Wilmot Arendse and Mercy Brown-Luthango, aims to increase understanding constructive community engagement in informal settlements.
News
DAAD Call for Scholarship Applications 2024 – MPhil Southern Urbanism
The African Centre for Cities, through Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) are calling for scholarship applications for 2024.Â
Call for applications: Associate Professor or Professor in Urban Studies
The African Centre for Cities at the University of Cape Town and Urban Studies at the University of Basel invite applications for a full time Associate Professor or Professor in Urban Studies.
theoriSE: debating the southeastern turn in urban theories
African Centre for Cities is delighted to publish theoriSE: debating the southeastern turn in urban studies, edited by Oren Yiftachel and Nisa Mammon.Â
EXTENDED DEADLINE: Call for Applications: Junior Research Fellow
The African Centre for Cities invites applications for a two-year Junior Research Fellow position to join Young and Online in African Cities: Tech-based Activations for Just and Sustainable Urban Development, an applied and action-oriented research project aiming to tackle inequality through exploring the relationship between youth, technology, work, citizenship, and sustainable and just placemaking.Â
Ground-breaking initiative supports African mayors to transform their cities
The African Mayoral Leadership Initiative (AMALI) unveiled its plans to catalyse the transformation of cities across the continent. The initiative will provide exclusive, tailored support to African city leaders, drawing on the insights and experience of a distinguished group of coaches including former heads of state, government ministers, and mayors with a legacy of transformation.
ACC partners with Big Win on initiative to catalyse the transformation of cities in Africa
African Centre for Cities has partnered with Big Win Philanthropy on a ground-breaking initiative to catalyse the transformation of cities in Africa: the African Mayoral Leadership Initiative (AMALI).
Research
Geographies of gender and sexuality I: Engaging the shift towards Southern urbanism
Andrew Tucker has authored a new paper entitled Geographies of gender and sexuality I: Engaging the shift towards Southern urbanism, published in Progress in Human Geography.
theoriSE: debating the southeastern turn in urban theories
African Centre for Cities is delighted to publish theoriSE: debating the southeastern turn in urban studies, edited by Oren Yiftachel and Nisa Mammon.Â
Scientific hubris and a squeamish necropolitics: tracing continuities and discontinuities in AIDS discourses from the perspective of COVID-19
Andrew Tucker and Gerry Kearns have co-authored a paper entitled Scientific hubris and a squeamish necropolitics: tracing continuities and discontinuities in AIDS discourse from the perspective of COVID-19, in Social and Cultural Geography.
Report | The Cable is Coming
‘The Cable is Coming’ report uses the case of Uganda as an illustration of the diversity of intersections between small-scale electricity generation and urban development, raising critical questions related to the possibilities and risks of distributed technological systems in the context of Africa’s growing cities.
A whole-of-government, whole-of-society approach to child nutrition
Join us as we look at a day in the life of 5-year-old Nosipho to see what she eats and what we can do together to ensure she has access to good nutrition daily.
What Is Critical Urbanism? Urban Research as Pedagogy
The University of Chicago Press has published What is Critical Urbanism? edited by Kenny Cupers, Sophie Oldfield, Manuel Herz, Laura Nkula-Wenz, Emilio Distretti, and Myriam Perret.
Events
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,…
Nobel Week Dialogue: The City of the Future
Take a second to picture your future home: what do you want it to be like? For well over half…
Planning for Food Secure African Cities Podcast
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BOOK LAUNCH | theoriSE: debating the southeastern turn in urban theories
BOOK LAUNCH | theoriSE: debating the southeastern turn in urban theories
African Centre for Cities invites you to the launch of theoriSE: debating the southeastern turn in urban studies, edited by Oren Yiftachel and Nisa Mammon.
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