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Title Politics and community-based research : perspectives from Yeoville Studio, Johannesburg / edited by Claire Bénit-Gbaffou, Sarah Charlton, Sophie Didier, Kirsten Dörmann
Published Johannesburg : Wits University Press, 2019

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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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed October 14, 2019)
Subject City planning -- Social aspects -- South Africa -- Johannesburg
Public spaces -- Social aspects -- South Africa -- Johannesburg
Community development, Urban -- South Africa -- Johannesburg
Slums -- South Africa -- Johannesburg
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- City Planning & Urban Development.
City planning -- Social aspects
Community development, Urban
Politics and government
Public spaces -- Social aspects
Slums
SUBJECT Johannesburg (South Africa) -- Politics and government
Subject South Africa -- Johannesburg
Form Electronic book
Author Bénit-Gbaffou, Claire, editor.
Charlton, Sarah, editor.
Didier, Sophie, editor
Dörmann, Kirsten, editor
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