scholarly journals Sensing Urban Values: Reassessing Urban Cultures and Histories Amidst Redevelopment Agendas

2021 ◽  
pp. 120633122110006
Author(s):  
Carolyn Birdsall ◽  
Anastasiya Halauniova ◽  
Linda van de Kamp
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Urban Environments ◽  
Cultural Dimensions ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Place Making ◽  
Spatial Politics ◽  
Spatial Justice ◽  
The World ◽  
Urban Contexts

Introduction to Sensing Urban Values. This special issue assembles a set of papers that respond to a neglected, undertheorized yet crucial question relating to spatial politics and urban renewal: How do economic and non-economic values depend on and co-constitute each other in different urban contexts? In response, the contributors to this special issue build on recent critical reassessments of value; they explore how the spatial and cultural politics of value unfolds in contemporary urban environments globally. They examine cases that traverse Poland, South Africa, Malaysia, Germany, and The Netherlands. The papers demonstrate a theoretical and empirically engaged concern with themes such as the cultural dimensions of place-making processes in contemporary cities; how identity, memory, heritage, and value-making processes may matter for the production of urban spaces today through sensing; aesthetic reorganizations of places, movements, and interactions with urban matters; and through storytelling. Taking up the theme of urban valuation with a multisensory approach has prompted the contributors to explore the multiple and translocal ways through which urban valuations unfold, are performed, and are experienced. This approach reveals the multiple valuations of spaces—not only economic but also symbolic—that inform the struggles for social and spatial justice in cities across the world as well as their scholarly examinations.

From East Harlem to Cape Town: Tupac Shakur’s legacy as a globalised oppositional repertoire

Ethnography ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 146613812092337
Author(s):  
Dariusz Dziewanski
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Cape Town ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Cultural Resource ◽  
East Harlem ◽  
Shared Experiences ◽  
Street Culture ◽  
Cultural Strategies ◽  
The World ◽  
The City

For marginalised people living in Cape Town, South Africa, rapper Tupac Shakur represents a globalised oppositional repertoire that people draw on for strength and esteem. The study focused on 22 purposefully sampled interviews from township communities throughout Cape Town, which were conducted within a broader multi-year research project that focused on street culture and gangs in the city. Perhaps the most obvious narrative emerging from the research was that of male gang members connecting to the defiant masculine aggression often projected through Tupac’s music. But research also found that gang girls can also draw on the oppositional power he embodies as a street soldier, leveraging it in order to push back against their physical and material insecurity through performances of street culture. There are also ways that Tupac, as the globalised ghetto prophet, serves as a cultural resource for those trying to resist the streets and participation in gangs. The continued resonance of his legacy and image among township residents in Cape Town hints at the links they find in common with disenfranchised groups in American ghettos, and the myriad of similarly segregated urban spaces around the world. Many such groups pursue common cultural strategies to counter their shared experiences with disenfranchisement and disempowerment.

scholarly journals Living Cities: Tropical Imaginaries

2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anita Lundberg
Keyword(s):  
Circular Economy ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Urban Environments ◽  
Creative Industries ◽  
Space And Place ◽  
Natural Environments ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Place Making ◽  
Natural Landscapes ◽  
The Tropics

This special issue of eTropic  concerns living cities in the tropics and how they are conceived through the imagination. The collection of papers reminds us that urban environments are both created and creative spaces concerned with peopled and lived experiences and their interaction with material, cultural and natural environments. The issue is interested in processes of tropical space and place-making, with an emphasis on key areas that make up lived cities in the tropics: architecture, design, creative industries and economies, circular economy, neoliberalism, displacement, heritage, urban myths, narratives, cultural and natural landscapes, sustainable practices, and everyday life.

scholarly journals The manifestation of street safety and security as spatial (in)justice in selected small rural towns of Vhembe District, South Africa

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Wendy Wadzanayi Tsoriyo ◽  
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Emaculate Ingwani ◽  
James Chakwizira ◽  
Peter Bikam ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Survey Design ◽  
Urban Environments ◽  
Design Data ◽  
Spatial Justice ◽  
Local Municipalities ◽  
Key Informant ◽  
Vhembe District ◽  
Method Approach

Safe and secure street spaces for pedestrians translate to spatially just urban environments. This study examined pedestrians’ safety and security elements on street spaces in three selected Small Rural Towns (SRTs) in South Africa and assessed the users’ physical perceptions of street safety and security in SRTs and their implications on spatial (in)justice. Forty-three street spaces from three SRTs in South Africa were purposively sampled and assessed in this study. The study adopted a mixed-method approach and a street safety spatial (in)justice case study survey design. Data were collected through key informant interviews, a questionnaire survey and observations. The distribution of safety and security elements across the studied 43 street spaces reflect the existence of justices and injustices concurrently. Users’ theoretical perception of the meaning of street safety differs significantly from their actual experiences. The study recommends that the design and management of streets be informed by users’ vision of street safety and security and innovative project financing strategies by local municipalities to ensure spatial justice on street spaces.

Facing the World: Towards a Global History of Non-Latin Type Design

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 399-411
Author(s):  
Thomas S. Mullaney
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
Global History ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Type Design ◽  
The World ◽  
Critical Issues ◽  
History Of ◽  
Printed Word ◽  
Archival Work

Abstract This essay serves as the entry point into a broader exploration of critical issues in the history of “non-Latin” type design—that is, type design beyond the Latin alphabet. With special emphasis on certain scripts (Arabic, Chinese, Greek, and Devanagari, among others) and regions (South Asia, East Asia, South Africa, and beyond), this special issue brings together practicing designers and scholars, federating rigorous archival work, practice-based insight, and a deep engagement with the global history of the written, designed, and printed word.

Auditing in the BRICs

2015 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Rachelle Quinn
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Emerging Market ◽  
Geographic Location ◽  
Cultural Dimensions ◽  
Accounting Firms ◽  
Geographic Factors ◽  
Market Growth ◽  
The World ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
Big Four

The “Big Four” international accounting firms typically provide audit, tax, and advisory services throughout the world. Emerging market growth, specifically in the countries of Brazil, South Africa, and India, is expected to be significant in the upcoming years. In this paper, specific political, economic, socio-cultural, technological, legal, ethical, environmental and geographic factors are considered in each of these countries specifically as they relate to members of the Big Four and their auditing services. Further, Hofstede’s cultural dimensions are evaluated in light of the provision of audit services within Brazil, South Africa, and India. Specific business risks and opportunities are identified for firms in each geographic location discussed.

Queer urban trauma and its spatial politics: A lesson from social movements in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem

Urban Studies ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 004209802091883
Author(s):  
Gilly Hartal ◽  
Chen Misgav
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Queer Theory ◽  
Traumatic Events ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Urban Context ◽  
Spatial Politics ◽  
Tel Aviv ◽  
Urban Activism ◽  
Lgbt Community ◽  
Urban Contexts

Growing attention has been devoted to the political geography of urban social movements but trauma, its urban context and spatial politics, have been significantly neglected. This paper aims to develop the concept of ‘queer urban trauma’ and its aftermath in the sense of urban and spatial activism, through an analysis of two traumatic events for the LGBT community in Israel. It explains how traumatic events taking place within urban contexts affect the spatial politics of LGBT and queer urban activism. Based on geographies of sexualities and queer theory, this paper aims to fill this gap by analysing traumatic events in two Israeli cities: the 2009 shooting of two young queers in a youth club in Tel Aviv, and the 2015 stabbing of a young girl during the Jerusalem Pride Parade. Tel Aviv is considered the liberal centre of Israel and a local ‘gay heaven’, as well as a destination for global gay tourism. Jerusalem on the other hand is usually described with a sense of alienation among LGBT and queer individuals and movements, where every political, spatial, cultural and financial achievement is a struggle. We argue that the politics of trauma are constructed differently in these two urban settings, producing important nuances of urban activism and politics. Through this empirical discussion, we develop the concept of ‘queer urban trauma’, revealing divergent forms of spatial visibility, presence and activity of the queer movements within urban spaces.

Sporting Mega-Events and South-to-South Security Exchanges: A Comparative Study of South Africa and Brazil

2013 ◽  
Vol 8 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 313-332 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher McMichael
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
Urban Crime ◽  
Urban Environments ◽  
Perceived Threat ◽  
Sporting Events ◽  
Security Measures ◽  
World Cup ◽  
Mega Events ◽  
The World

Summary The FIFA World Cup and the Summer Olympics are the most prestigious major sporting events in the world, and host governments implement security measures to match this stature. While global concerns about terrorism have led to a dramatic upsurge in the extent of security measures, the perceived threat of urban crime is becoming an increasingly prominent cause for apprehension. This has been of particular importance to South Africa’s recent 2010 World Cup and for the unprecedented sequential hosting of both the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Olympics in Brazil. In both contexts, security has been used as a statement of intent: the respective states have instrumentalized mega-events as an international platform to signal their ability to secure urban environments. This article will focus on a comparative study of areas in which the respective security preparations for the World Cup in Brazil have overlapped with the measures deployed in South Africa. Using examples of how Brazilian authorities have sought advice from their South Africa counterparts, it will suggest that both countries have adopted comparable risk aversion strategies.

scholarly journals Music Education in Africa

2015 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 243-245
Author(s):  
REGINA MURPHY ◽  
MARTIN FAUTLEY
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Music Education ◽  
Focal Point ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
The World ◽  
What Matters ◽  
Education In Africa

Coming from Botswana, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Ghana and Kenya, the papers in this Special Issue on Music Education in Africa cannot portray a definitive story of music education in all 54 sovereign states in the Continent, but as a first step towards understanding what matters in this region of the world, the range of topics in this issue provides us with a focal point for dialogue.

Integrating Africa into the World Economy through International Economic Law: An Introduction

2013 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
James Thuo Gathii ◽  
Tomer Broude ◽  
Laurence Boulle
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
International Economic ◽  
World Economy ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Law And Development ◽  
Development Review ◽  
Economic Law ◽  
International Economic Law ◽  
The World ◽  
The University

AbstractThis is an introduction to a special issue of the Law and Development Review comprising papers presented at the Second Conference of the African International Economic Law Network at the Mandela Institute of the University of Witwatersrand in South Africa in March, 2013.

Editorial

2009 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 4-7
Author(s):  
Ayona Datta
Keyword(s):  
Urban Environments ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
Built Environments ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Cultural Economic ◽  
Physical Location ◽  
Built Form ◽  
The World ◽  
The City ◽  
Globalising World

The dynamics of globalisation as the increasing interconnectedness between all aspects of social, cultural, economic, and political spaces have seen an unprecedented focus on migrants across the world. Far less discussed though has been the connections between spaces and places during migration - how conceptualisations of proximity/distance, inside/outside; native/migrant; past/present; memories/experiences produce and shape buildings, streets, and urban environments. While it is suggested that the unprecedented movement of people in a globalising world will be particularly significant for cities and urban life, it is also argued that such movement has led to a problematisation of ‘home’ as a particular type of built form in a physical location. This special issue is therefore interested in making the links between three important processes in a globalising world-home, migration, and the city - and their significance for built forms and built environments across the world.

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