Politics and Community-Based Research: Perspectives from Yeoville Studio, Johannesburg
Sarah Charlton · Sophie Didier · Kirsten Dörmann · Claire Bénit-Gbaffou
Oct 2019 · NYU Press
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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.
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.
About the author
Sarah Charlton (Editor)
Sarah Charlton is a senior lecturer in the School of Architecture and Planning at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg and director of the Centre for Urbanism and Built Environment Studies
Sophie Didier (Editor)
Sophie Didier is a professor at the Paris School of Urban Planning, University Marne-la-Vallée, France and a researcher at Lab’Urba.
Kirsten Dörmann (Editor)
Kirsten Dörmann is a lecturer in the School of Architecture and Planning at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.
Claire Bénit-Gbaffou (Editor)
Claire Bénit-Gbaffou is Associate Professor in the School of Architecture and Planning at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.
Sarah Charlton is a senior lecturer in the School of Architecture and Planning at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg and director of the Centre for Urbanism and Built Environment Studies
Sophie Didier (Editor)
Sophie Didier is a professor at the Paris School of Urban Planning, University Marne-la-Vallée, France and a researcher at Lab’Urba.
Kirsten Dörmann (Editor)
Kirsten Dörmann is a lecturer in the School of Architecture and Planning at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.
Claire Bénit-Gbaffou (Editor)
Claire Bénit-Gbaffou is Associate Professor in the School of Architecture and Planning at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.
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