Southern African City Studies Conference 2016

The fourth Southern African City Studies Conference was held in Durban in March 2016.

The 2016 Southern African City Studies Conference (SACSC) was hosted by the Urban Futures Centre at the Durban University of Technology (DUT) from 17 to 19 March 2016. Visit the conference website and read the call for contributions here.

The conference brought together scholars who wished to expose their work to positive critical discussion and engage with ideas of those working in disciplines other than their own. CUBES staff and students presented papers in a number of panels, including two convened by CUBES on the "Right To The City" (coordinated by Marie Huchzermeyer) and "Practices of the State in Urban Governance" (coordinated by Claire Benit-Gbaffou). Download the 2016 SACSC Programme for more information on the panels.

A number of recently published books were also presented at the conference, including an edited volume by Claire Benit-Gbaffou entitled Popular Politics in South African Cities: Unpacking Community Participation, published by HSRC Press in 2015. Read more on the book here.

PSUG discussion participants after their panel (March 2016)