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SUMMARY:Book Launch: Routledge Handbook of Southern Urbanism(s)
DESCRIPTION:The African Centre for Cities will host Catalina Ortiz and Chandrima Mukhopadhyay for the launch of their forthcoming edited book\, The Routledge Handbook of Southern Urbanism(s)\, which includes contributions from ACC’s Nancy Odendaal and Nobukhosi Ngwenya.\nThis Handbook traces key debates shaping contemporary urbanisation through Southern urbanism(s) as an epistemic orientation\, engaging critically with how urban theory and practice are being reworked in contexts where crises are most intensely lived and negotiated. Rather than offering models or solutions\, the volume examines how urban knowledge is produced through situated practices\, struggles\, and experiments. \nThe book is organised into six interconnected sections that address the ethics and politics of urban inquiry; the entanglements of theory and practice; the governance of contested cities; the Southern infrastructural turn; struggles over situated urban justice; and pluriversal urban future imaginaries. The Handbook argues that centring situated reflections from and about Southern urbanism(s) enables scholars and practitioners to learn from the front lines where urban challenges are confronted\, contested\, and re-imagined. The “South” is treated not as a fixed geography but as a relational and epistemic position shaped by power\, positionality\, and lived urban conditions. Engaging questions that scholars and practitioners grapple with in their everyday work\, the volume explores how theory emerges through practice\, how global agendas are negotiated or resisted\, and how alternative imaginaries of justice and urban futures are mobilised for the global majority. \nThe Handbook is an essential guide and reference not only for researchers engaged with southern (urban) theory and southern urbanism(s)\, but also for undergraduate and graduate teaching and for urban practitioners\, policymakers and activists. \nWHEN: Wednesday\, 24 June 2026 \nTIME: 17h30 for 18h00 \nWHERE: Bertha House (Activist Cafe\, 67 Main Road\, Mowbray\, Cape Town) \nClick to RSVP or email africancentreforcities@uct.ac.za
URL:https://www.africancentreforcities.net/event/routledge-handbook-of-southern-urbanisms/
LOCATION:Activist Cafe\, Bertha House\, 69 Main Road\, Mowbray\, Cape Town\, 7701\, South Africa
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