Publishing
New Article: Cultivating Food Justice – Redefining Harvest Sales for Sustainable Urban Agriculture in Low-Income Cape Town post Covid-19
This article examines UCGs in low- income areas of Cape Town, South Africa, to understand how they might sell their harvests while countering the neoliberal food system in cities of the global South. The researcher draws on qualitative fieldwork, including observations and semi- structured interviews with UCG representatives and civil society actors.
New report: Insights on ‘The Post-networked City’
A new report titled ‘The Post-networked City: Reflecting on Heterogeneous Service Delivery in African Cities’ sheds light on the diverse pathways shaping urban infrastructure in places like Freetown and Kampala.
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.
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.
Case Report: Motorcycles, digital platforms and fintech integration in Nairobi, Kenya
Case Report: Motorcycles, digital platforms and fintech integration in Nairobi, Kenya
Fintech and the platformed motorcycle: speculating on ordinary mobility economies in urban Africa
Fintech and the platformed motorcycle: speculating on ordinary mobility economies in urban Africa
The rise of on-demand logistics in Cape Town
This report shares insights on how the use of motorcycles reconfigures urban mobility, governance and economies due to the introduction of platform-based systems and the rise in platformisation of on-demand logistics.