Edgar Pieterse

South Africa

African Centre for Cities

Unversity of Cape Town

Fellow:

2013 Second Semester
2024 Second Semester

Involved in these STIAS projects

Urbanist at Large. Iterating an Urban Sensibility

Edgar Pieterse

The STIAS Fellowship will be used to define a new field of research for the next four years. During the past five years my research explored the potential for sustainable infrastructure transitions in...

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Conjuring majorities: Life, infrastructure, and relational politics in the urban South

Edgar Pieterse

A joint book manuscript ‘Conjuring majorities: life, infrastructure, and relational politics in the urban South’ (with AbdouMaliq Simone) will be completed. The book will seek to recast debates on...

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Related publications

Book/Book Chapter

Refractions of the National, the Popular and the Global in African Cities

Bekker, Simon, Sylvia Croese and Edgar Pieterse. (Eds.). 2021. Refractions of the National, the Popular and the Global in African Cities. African Minds. https://www.africanminds.co.za/refractions-african-cities/

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Book/Book Chapter

Africa’s Urban Revolution

Susan Parnell and Edgar Pieterse (Editors). 2014. Africa’s Urban Revolution. Zed Books (London & New York, x + 309 pp). ISBN: 978-1-78-032520-0

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Book/Book Chapter

New Urban Worlds: Inhabiting Dissonant Times

Simone, AbdouMaliq and Edgar Pieterse. 2017. New Urban Worlds: Inhabiting Dissonant Times. Wiley. http://eu.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0745691560.html

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