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Rapporten beskriver erfaringer med samvirket mellom byvekstavtaler og arealplanlegging i Bergenso... more Rapporten beskriver erfaringer med samvirket mellom byvekstavtaler og arealplanlegging i Bergensområdet
Siden 1987 har storbyene og KS finansiert et eget forskningsprogram for å få fram relevant og nyt... more Siden 1987 har storbyene og KS finansiert et eget forskningsprogram for å få fram relevant og nyttig kunnskap for byenes rolle som tjenesteyter og samfunnsutvikler. Dette prosjektet forteller historien om programmet i store trekk, med vekt på kontinuitet og endring i tematiske satsinger, organisering og samarbeid og hvordan funn er blitt brukt i storbyenes eget arbeid. Vi identifiserer seks faktorer som er avgjørende for å få til det gode storbyforskprosjektet. Gå til den digitale versjonen av rapporte
Oslo: By- og regionforskningsinstituttet NIBRHøgskolen i Oslo og Akershus, 2017
Nordic Journal of African Studies, 2014
In this paper I explore the role of information in disputes over temporary relocations and housin... more In this paper I explore the role of information in disputes over temporary relocations and housing allocation in Delft, Cape Town. Delft is a community with several temporary relocation areas (TRAs), and where massive housing construction takes place. Demands for information and grievances over limited transparency around the future of TRAs and the allocation of housing have become key issues in local politics. Using Mazzarella’s work on mediation as an entry point, I explore how information works as a mediator of power in everyday politics. Information can be a resource for exercises of power, while also being something that is mediated in and through local political identities, social relations, and experiences. Depoliticized notions of information as a tool for frictionless development freed from interest-based politics can be perceived as a mode of regulation through which state actors aim to govern communities and regulate citizenship. But in the everyday politics of citizenshi...
Urban Forum
Difference is foundational to urban governance and urban life. This article—and the special issue... more Difference is foundational to urban governance and urban life. This article—and the special issue—focuses analytically on the juxtaposition of multiple urban differences, and what happens especially in relation to urban authority and citizenship when such differences articulate with each other. This analytical work is based on a conceptual lens we call juxtacity, which is used to examine the origins, dynamics, and effects of urban divides, where urban divides are seen as active, situated domains in themselves that provide key opportunities for understanding and theorizing complex urban dynamics. The juxtacity approach emphasizes three key elements of difference and division—relationality, articulation, and productive co-constitution—and their differentiated effects. The focus is especially on but not limited to more overt, visible structures of urban domination, but consciously counters the ways in which more common sense hierarchies of power leave out a wide range of subtler forms of inequality, domination, exclusion, and violence. These latter are crucial for understanding differences and divisions in cities around the world. The juxtacity approach counters EuroAmerican-as-universal urban theory. Including cases from Africa and Asia, the special issue employs a form of openly comparative southern urbanism that contributes to the wider project of theorizing from the south/southeast.
Planning Theory & Practice
ABSTRACT This article discusses how global ideas on co-production and citizenship built from belo... more ABSTRACT This article discusses how global ideas on co-production and citizenship built from below are translated into community mobilization and participatory planning practices in urban Malawi. It shows how limited national and local resources, disconnections from national and urban policies of redistribution, and a local politics shaped by both clientelism and democratic reforms create a glass ceiling for what global models of community mobilization and participation are able to achieve. It calls for a more systematic and empirically diverse research agenda to better understand how participatory discourses and practices embedded in grassroots organizing are transferred and mediated in place.
Denne tillater tredjepart å kopiere, distribuere og spre verket i hvilket som helst medium eller ... more Denne tillater tredjepart å kopiere, distribuere og spre verket i hvilket som helst medium eller format, og å remixe, endre, og bygge videre på materialet til et hvilket som helst formål, inkludert kommersielle, under betingelse av at korrekt kreditering og en lenke til lisensen er oppgitt, og at man indikerer om endringer er blitt gjort. Tredjepart kan gjøre dette på enhver rimelig måte, men uten at det kan forstås slik at lisensgiver bifaller tredjepart eller tredjeparts bruk av verket. Boken er utgitt med støtte fra Institutt for sosiologi og samfunnsgeografi, Universitetet i Oslo.
Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift - Norwegian Journal of Geography
ABSTRACT The purpose of the article is to explore the complex and contested politics of urban cit... more ABSTRACT The purpose of the article is to explore the complex and contested politics of urban citizenship in relation to everyday spaces in Delft, a poor township in Cape Town South Africa. The arguments build upon a decade of ethnographic research on community politics and organizing relating to housing in Delft, Cape Town. Through illustrative examples, the author shows how housing rights and policies have been mediated through and imbricated with racial identities, residential status and notions of belonging in the community. She finds that these subjectivities are not inherent in conflict but often overlap and work simultaneously in community organizing and practice. These findings inform a critical engagement with current rethinking of urban citizenship in the Global South. The author argues that attention to the ordinary and everyday practices of citizenship may lead to a better understanding of how political subjectivities and agency are produced and practised. She concludes by proposing three dimensions that could guide a research agenda on everyday politics of urban citizenship: reconstructions of political subjectivities through state–society encounters, implications of differentiated subjectivities for how urban citizenship is perceived and claimed, and what practices of citizenship are seen as expressions of political agency.
Eos, 2017
CIENS Urban Conference 2016: Smart and Green Cities – For Whom?; Oslo, Norway, 13 October 2016
Forum for Development Studies, 2016
The new development agenda formulated through the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is rich wi... more The new development agenda formulated through the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is rich with issues such as women empowerment, inclusive society, environment, and decent work that have been high on the agenda of civil society actors. However, civil society itself gets only a scant attention among other implementing bodies. We argue for nuanced investigation of civil society in the context of SDGs, and its rethinking in the arena of development research, and propose an approach that pays attention to situated hegemonies at different scales, and engages with empirical complexities in a non-normative tone. We illustrate the proposed agenda by reviewing literature on local organizing, established organizations, and networks and alliances especially in the contexts of South Africa and Tanzania. In conclusion we suggest that paying attention to situated hegemonies at different scales provides a fruitful framework for discussing civil society in both development research and practice in the threshold of new global development era.
Progress in Human Geography, 2015
Urban Forum
While urban divisions are commonly emphasized in urban studies, there has been less emphasis on r... more While urban divisions are commonly emphasized in urban studies, there has been less emphasis on reproductions and contestations of divides within marginal urban spaces. This paper explores the dynamics of juxtaposed differences related to housing and urban citizenship in Delft, Cape Town. Delft is a microcosm of thirty years of official housing interventions in post-apartheid South Africa. It is also a space in which differences of urban formality and informality and of permanence and temporariness co-exist, and where housing is at the centre of community politics. This is driven by residents’ perceptions, interpretations and negotiations of differentiated housing rights and opportunities, residential categories and identities and notions of belonging. A particular manifestation of juxtaposed material and temporal differences in housing infrastructure is the construction of temporary relocation areas (TRAs). The multifaceted challenges with the TRAs in Delft illustrate the political...
Rapporten beskriver erfaringer med samvirket mellom byvekstavtaler og arealplanlegging i Bergenso... more Rapporten beskriver erfaringer med samvirket mellom byvekstavtaler og arealplanlegging i Bergensområdet
Siden 1987 har storbyene og KS finansiert et eget forskningsprogram for å få fram relevant og nyt... more Siden 1987 har storbyene og KS finansiert et eget forskningsprogram for å få fram relevant og nyttig kunnskap for byenes rolle som tjenesteyter og samfunnsutvikler. Dette prosjektet forteller historien om programmet i store trekk, med vekt på kontinuitet og endring i tematiske satsinger, organisering og samarbeid og hvordan funn er blitt brukt i storbyenes eget arbeid. Vi identifiserer seks faktorer som er avgjørende for å få til det gode storbyforskprosjektet. Gå til den digitale versjonen av rapporte
Oslo: By- og regionforskningsinstituttet NIBRHøgskolen i Oslo og Akershus, 2017
Nordic Journal of African Studies, 2014
In this paper I explore the role of information in disputes over temporary relocations and housin... more In this paper I explore the role of information in disputes over temporary relocations and housing allocation in Delft, Cape Town. Delft is a community with several temporary relocation areas (TRAs), and where massive housing construction takes place. Demands for information and grievances over limited transparency around the future of TRAs and the allocation of housing have become key issues in local politics. Using Mazzarella’s work on mediation as an entry point, I explore how information works as a mediator of power in everyday politics. Information can be a resource for exercises of power, while also being something that is mediated in and through local political identities, social relations, and experiences. Depoliticized notions of information as a tool for frictionless development freed from interest-based politics can be perceived as a mode of regulation through which state actors aim to govern communities and regulate citizenship. But in the everyday politics of citizenshi...
Urban Forum
Difference is foundational to urban governance and urban life. This article—and the special issue... more Difference is foundational to urban governance and urban life. This article—and the special issue—focuses analytically on the juxtaposition of multiple urban differences, and what happens especially in relation to urban authority and citizenship when such differences articulate with each other. This analytical work is based on a conceptual lens we call juxtacity, which is used to examine the origins, dynamics, and effects of urban divides, where urban divides are seen as active, situated domains in themselves that provide key opportunities for understanding and theorizing complex urban dynamics. The juxtacity approach emphasizes three key elements of difference and division—relationality, articulation, and productive co-constitution—and their differentiated effects. The focus is especially on but not limited to more overt, visible structures of urban domination, but consciously counters the ways in which more common sense hierarchies of power leave out a wide range of subtler forms of inequality, domination, exclusion, and violence. These latter are crucial for understanding differences and divisions in cities around the world. The juxtacity approach counters EuroAmerican-as-universal urban theory. Including cases from Africa and Asia, the special issue employs a form of openly comparative southern urbanism that contributes to the wider project of theorizing from the south/southeast.
Planning Theory & Practice
ABSTRACT This article discusses how global ideas on co-production and citizenship built from belo... more ABSTRACT This article discusses how global ideas on co-production and citizenship built from below are translated into community mobilization and participatory planning practices in urban Malawi. It shows how limited national and local resources, disconnections from national and urban policies of redistribution, and a local politics shaped by both clientelism and democratic reforms create a glass ceiling for what global models of community mobilization and participation are able to achieve. It calls for a more systematic and empirically diverse research agenda to better understand how participatory discourses and practices embedded in grassroots organizing are transferred and mediated in place.
Denne tillater tredjepart å kopiere, distribuere og spre verket i hvilket som helst medium eller ... more Denne tillater tredjepart å kopiere, distribuere og spre verket i hvilket som helst medium eller format, og å remixe, endre, og bygge videre på materialet til et hvilket som helst formål, inkludert kommersielle, under betingelse av at korrekt kreditering og en lenke til lisensen er oppgitt, og at man indikerer om endringer er blitt gjort. Tredjepart kan gjøre dette på enhver rimelig måte, men uten at det kan forstås slik at lisensgiver bifaller tredjepart eller tredjeparts bruk av verket. Boken er utgitt med støtte fra Institutt for sosiologi og samfunnsgeografi, Universitetet i Oslo.
Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift - Norwegian Journal of Geography
ABSTRACT The purpose of the article is to explore the complex and contested politics of urban cit... more ABSTRACT The purpose of the article is to explore the complex and contested politics of urban citizenship in relation to everyday spaces in Delft, a poor township in Cape Town South Africa. The arguments build upon a decade of ethnographic research on community politics and organizing relating to housing in Delft, Cape Town. Through illustrative examples, the author shows how housing rights and policies have been mediated through and imbricated with racial identities, residential status and notions of belonging in the community. She finds that these subjectivities are not inherent in conflict but often overlap and work simultaneously in community organizing and practice. These findings inform a critical engagement with current rethinking of urban citizenship in the Global South. The author argues that attention to the ordinary and everyday practices of citizenship may lead to a better understanding of how political subjectivities and agency are produced and practised. She concludes by proposing three dimensions that could guide a research agenda on everyday politics of urban citizenship: reconstructions of political subjectivities through state–society encounters, implications of differentiated subjectivities for how urban citizenship is perceived and claimed, and what practices of citizenship are seen as expressions of political agency.
Eos, 2017
CIENS Urban Conference 2016: Smart and Green Cities – For Whom?; Oslo, Norway, 13 October 2016
Forum for Development Studies, 2016
The new development agenda formulated through the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is rich wi... more The new development agenda formulated through the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is rich with issues such as women empowerment, inclusive society, environment, and decent work that have been high on the agenda of civil society actors. However, civil society itself gets only a scant attention among other implementing bodies. We argue for nuanced investigation of civil society in the context of SDGs, and its rethinking in the arena of development research, and propose an approach that pays attention to situated hegemonies at different scales, and engages with empirical complexities in a non-normative tone. We illustrate the proposed agenda by reviewing literature on local organizing, established organizations, and networks and alliances especially in the contexts of South Africa and Tanzania. In conclusion we suggest that paying attention to situated hegemonies at different scales provides a fruitful framework for discussing civil society in both development research and practice in the threshold of new global development era.
Progress in Human Geography, 2015
Urban Forum
While urban divisions are commonly emphasized in urban studies, there has been less emphasis on r... more While urban divisions are commonly emphasized in urban studies, there has been less emphasis on reproductions and contestations of divides within marginal urban spaces. This paper explores the dynamics of juxtaposed differences related to housing and urban citizenship in Delft, Cape Town. Delft is a microcosm of thirty years of official housing interventions in post-apartheid South Africa. It is also a space in which differences of urban formality and informality and of permanence and temporariness co-exist, and where housing is at the centre of community politics. This is driven by residents’ perceptions, interpretations and negotiations of differentiated housing rights and opportunities, residential categories and identities and notions of belonging. A particular manifestation of juxtaposed material and temporal differences in housing infrastructure is the construction of temporary relocation areas (TRAs). The multifaceted challenges with the TRAs in Delft illustrate the political...
Millstein, M., Oldfield, S. and Stokke, K. (2003). uTshani BuyaKhuluma – The Grass Speaks: The Political Space and Capacity of the South African Homeless People’s Federation. Geoforum 34(4), 457-468.
The point of departure for this article is the contemporary tendency towards localisation of poli... more The point of departure for this article is the contemporary tendency towards localisation of politics in the context of neo-liberal globalisation. Mediated through institutional reforms, political discourses and localised struggles, this localisation of politics produce new and transformed local political spaces. The purpose of the article is to examine the capacity of popular movements to use and transform such political spaces within the South African housing sector. This analysis is done through a combination of conceptual examination of political space and actor capacity and a concrete case study of the political strategies and capacities of The South African Homeless PeopleÕs Federation. The article argues that the Federation has utilised political relations at different scales to mobilise resources such as land and subsidies for housing for its members. It has also influenced the formulation of housing policies through its discourses and practical experiences with people-driven housing processes. In consequence the FederationÕs ability to function as a civil/political movement has granted them a certain capacity to participate in the complicated process of turning de jure rights to adequate shelter into de facto rights for the urban poor as citizens of a democratic South Africa.