Impact Initiative: Recent submissions
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"Right to the City"; and the Structure of Civic Organizational Fields: Evidence from Cape Town
(Springer, 2018)This article proposes a network analytic approach to the role of frames in shaping the structure of civic organizational fields. Adopting a perspective from the global South, it looks at the impact of the expression “Right ... -
Pedagogical Case Study: The Political Ecology of the Waste Economy
(SUPE Collective, 2019)A byproduct of industrial processes and household consumption, waste is a critical reflection of contemporary life. Waste management is an essential environmental service provided for by municipal governments, one with ... -
Chapter 23: CO2 as Neoliberal Fetish: The Love of Crisis and the Depoliticized Immuno-Biopolitics of Climate Change Governance
(SAGE Publications Ltd, 2018)Chapter 23 is in Part 4 of 'The SAGE Handbook of Neoliberalism'. The handbook showcases the cutting edge of contemporary scholarship in this field by bringing together a team of global experts. Across seven key sections, ... -
A Labour Question for the 21st Century: Perpetuating the Work Ethic in the Absence of Jobs in South Africa's Waste Sector
(Taylor & Francis, 2018)For centuries, economic relations in southern Africa were profoundly shaped by interventions that sought to attract and coerce workers to participate in colonial and apartheid economies. These interventions included efforts ... -
Interrupting the Anthropo-obScene: Immuno-biopolitics and Depoliticizing Ontologies in the Anthropocene
(SAGE, 2018)This paper argues that ‘the Anthropocene’ is a deeply depoliticizing notion. This de-politicization unfolds through the creation of a set of narratives, what we refer to as ‘AnthropoScenes’, which broadly share the effect ... -
Provincializing Urban Appropriation: Agonistic Transgression as a Mode of Actually Existing Appropriation in South African Cities
(John Wiley & Sons, 2018)Urban appropriation is a key dimension of both Lefebvre's widely hailed ‘Right to the City’ and Bayat's concept of ‘quiet encroachment’. For Lefebvre, appropriation is a (generally unrealized) claim by those who do not ... -
Geographies of waste: Conceptual vectors from the Global South
(SAGE Publication, 2018)Geographies of waste, which include examination of its flows and politics, have demonstrated empirical differences and contrasting approaches to researching waste in the Global North and South. Southern waste geographies ... -
From Precarious Work to Obsolete Labour? Implications of Technological Disemployment for Geographical Scholarship
(Taylor & Francis, 2018)The displacement of jobs via mechanization and automation has long been understood as uncomfortable for labourers but also an intrinsic part of a process of ‘creative destruction’ leading to further growth in capitalist ... -
Norms, Mobilization and Conflict: The Merowe Dam as a Case Study
(Cambridge University Press, 2019)This article investigates dynamics of mobilization over environmental and human rights norms in the context of undemocratic governments. We test the suggestion in norm diffusion theories that the success of domestic struggles ... -
Exploring Policy Perceptions and Responsibility of Devolved Decision-making for Water Service Delivery in Kenya's 47 County Governments
(Elsevier Ltd, 2018)Improving water services is a well-rehearsed political instrument to win public support against a backdrop of a wide range of hydro-political realities in Africa. This paper examines whether devolution to Kenya’s 47 counties ... -
A Cultural Theory of Drinking Water Risks, Values and Institutional Change
(Elsevier Ltd, 2018)Global progress towards the goal of universal, safely managed drinking water services will be shaped by the dynamic relationship between water risks, values and institutions. We apply Mary Douglas’ cultural theory to rural ... -
Barriers to Equity in REDD+: Deficiencies in National Interpretation Processes Constrain Adaptation to Context
(Elsevier Ltd, 2018)A national interpretation process involving diverse actors and interests is required to transform global environmental initiatives into policies appropriate to the national or subnational context. These processes of ... -
Brokering Justice: Global Indigenous Rights and Struggles over Hydropower in Nepal
(Routledge, 2018)This article explores the dynamics of brokerage at the intersection between the justice conceptions enshrined in global norms and the notions of justice asserted in specific socio-environmental struggles. Using the case ... -
Representation and Participation in Formulating Nepal's REDD+ Approach
(Taylor & Francis Group, 2018)REDD+ is an international policy aimed at incentivizing forest conservation and management and improving forest governance. In this article, we interrogate how newly articulated REDD+ governance processes established to ... -
Linking Notions of Justice and Project Outcomes in Carbon Offset Forestry Projects: Insights from a Comparative Study in Uganda
(Elsevier Ltd, 2018)Over the last 20 years, Uganda has emerged as a testing ground for the various modes of carbon forestry used inAfrica. Carbon forestry initiatives in Uganda raise questions of justice, given that people with comparatively ... -
Defending the Need for a Foundational Epistemic Capability in Education
(Taylor and Francis Group, 2019)The paper takes up Sen’s concerns with education on the one hand and public reasoning on the other, and shows that his concerns require that formal education develop a capability that potentially fosters inclusive public ... -
The Well-being of South African University Students From Low-income Households.
(Taylor and Francis, 2019)The role of higher education in development and social mobility is now widely acknowledged and globally recognised. In South Africa in particular, graduates have greatly increased employment prospects. This paper takes up ... -
Low-income Rural Youth Migrating to Urban Universities in South Africa: Opportunities and Inequalities
(Taylor and Francis, 2019)In order to understand how students from low-income rural backgrounds in South Africa experience higher education and the opportunities and obstacles they encounter, the paper draws on two waves of interviews with 30 ... -
Dimensions of the Public Good in South African Higher Education
(Springer, 2018)The focus is on the micro-possibilities of student capabilities formation as the end of public-good higher education, rather than on a systems or organizations approach more commonly found in discussions of the public good ... -
A Multi-dimensional Approach to Fair Access
(African Minds, 2018)The goal in this chapter is to sketch the access terrain in order to understand what may be missing in relation to equity and to research so that we can work towards university access ...