Charting Directions for—and Challenges at Being Able to Undertake—Future Research on African Urban Sexualities
Charting Directions for—and Challenges at Being Able to Undertake—Future Research on African Urban Sexualities
Publishing
Queer Infrastructures: Objects of and Orientations towards Urban Research Practice
Queer Infrastructures: Objects of and Orientations towards Urban Research Practice
African Urban Sexualities After Queer Visibilities
African Urban Sexualities After Queer Visibilities
Special Issue: African Urban Sexualities after Queer Visibilities
ACC Deputy Director Andrew Tucker has edited a special issued of Urban Forum under the banner of African Urban Sexualities after Queer Visibilities.
New website of African infrastructure case studies launched
infra.africa is a new website which resulted from African Urban Futures, a research collaboration African between the African Centre for Cities at the University of Cape Town and the Urban Futures Studio at Utrecht University.
Fighting Urban Corruption in Fast-Growing African Cities
Corruption in Urban Planning: A Guide for Professional and Trainee Planners is a guide developed in partnership with researchers at the African Centre for Cities, geared towards understanding and addressing the impact of corruption on Sub-Saharan cities.
Democracy and the Life of Cities
Democracy and the Life of Cities examines and challenges the role of cities in generating and strengthening democratic practices as authoritarianism rises across much of the world.
Country Synthesis Report: Africa’s Urban Boom – Harnessing The Potential
In this country synthesis report, the PEAK Urban programme shares lessons from research in South Africa, with implications for global policy and practice.
Pathways to transform urban food system
An action research compass for strengthening the informal sector’s role in achieving the right to food.
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.
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.
Integrating Food Sensitive Planning and Urban Design into Urban Governance Actions
This report focuses on the different approaches to and positions on urban food governance.
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.