Urban Humanities Hub
The African Centre for Cities is in the process of strengthening its humanities focus. The purpose of this endeavour is to draw together an intellectual community dealing with urban humanities across the global South.
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Kim Gurney June 3, 2016Book Review: The Art of Public Space
Kim Gurney takes readers through Johannesburg via three arts projects. It is a journey that gives a unique insight into the potential of public art to fashion new public imaginaries of common space says LSE’s Kate Dawson. Read the full book review by Kate Dawson here.
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Henrietta Nyamnjoh September 2, 2016African Humanities Program Postdoctoral Fellowships 2016
Henrietta Nyamnjoh is a recipient of the American Council of Learned Society fellowship for the African Humanities Program Postdoctoral Fellowship for 2016
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June 6, 2016Job Opportunity: LECTURER/SENIOR LECTURER
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Kim Gurney June 3, 2016Book Review: The Art of Public Space
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Rike Sitas August 13, 2015Root Shock and Urban Planning: a conversation with Dr Mindy Thompson Fullilove
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Rike Sitas March 2, 2020Becoming Otherwise: Artful Urban Enquiry
Becoming Otherwise: Artful Urban Enquiry by Rike Sitas for Urban Forum draws together conceptual threads from public space, public art and public pedagogy literature in order to ‘deepen and widen the analytical and political edge’ of artful forms of urban enquiry as discussed by Pinder International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 32(3), 730–736, (Pinder 2008, […]
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August 1, 2019NEW ARTICLE: Effecting cultural change from below? A comparison of Cape Town and Bandung’s pathways to urban cultural governance
