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Record Nr.

UNINA9910510589803321

Titolo

Politics and community-based research : perspectives from Yeoville Studio, Johannesburg / / edited by Sarah Charlton, Sophie Didier, Kirsten Dörmann, Claire Bénit-Gbaffou [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Johannesburg : , : Wits University Press, , 2019

ISBN

1-77614-389-2

1-77614-385-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (432 pages)

Disciplina

307.12160968

Soggetti

City planning - Social aspects - South Africa - Johannesburg

Public spaces - Social aspects - South Africa - Johannesburg

Community development, Urban - South Africa - Johannesburg

Slums - South Africa - Johannesburg

Johannesburg (South Africa) Politics and government

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 31 Mar 2020).

Sommario/riassunto

Politics and Community-Based Research: Perspectives from Yeoville Studio, Johannesburg provides a textured analysis of a contested urban space that will resonate with other contested urban spaces around the world and challenges researchers involved in such spaces to work in creative and politicised ways.   This edited collection is built around the experiences of Yeoville Studio, a research initiative based at the School of Architecture and Planning at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. Through themed, illustrated stories of the people and places of Yeoville, the book presents a nuanced portrait of  the vibrance and complexity of a post-apartheid, peri-central neighbourhood that has often been characterised as a ‘slum’ in Johannesburg. These narratives are interwoven with theoretical chapters by scholars from a diversity of disciplinary backgrounds, reflecting on the empirical experiences of the Studio and examining academic research processes. These chapters unpack the engagement of the Studio in Yeoville, including issues of trust, the need to align policy with lived realities and



social needs, the political dimensions of the knowledge produced and the ways in which this knowledge was, and could be used.