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Politics and community-based research : perspectives from Yeoville Studio, Johannesburg / edited by Sarah Charlton, Sophie Didier, Kirsten Dörmann, Claire Bénit-Gbaffou.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bénit-Gbaffou, Claire, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- City planning--Social aspects--South Africa--Johannesburg.
- City planning.
- Public spaces--Social aspects--South Africa--Johannesburg.
- Public spaces.
- Community development, Urban--South Africa--Johannesburg.
- Community development, Urban.
- Slums--South Africa--Johannesburg.
- Slums.
- Johannesburg (South Africa)--Politics and government.
- Johannesburg (South Africa).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 417 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Place of Publication:
- Johannesburg : Wits University Press, 2019.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 31 Mar 2020).
- ISBN:
- 1-77614-389-2
- 1-77614-385-X
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