Ronnie Donaldson

Biographic Data

ID124358
NAMERonnie Donaldson
GIVEN NAMESRonnie
FAMILY NAMEDonaldson
SIGNATUREDONALDSON R
AFFILIATIONSStellenbosch University
ORCID0009-0004-6433-2976
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS37
TOTAL CITATIONS59
WORKS AS AUTHOR35
WORKS AS EDITOR2
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2001
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX5

  • ‘ If you name a child and then change the name, it is someone else ’

    Open AccessRonnie DonaldsonARTICLESouth African Geographical Journal2025

    In August 2023, residents of Graaff-Reinet received news that the town’s name is being considered for a change to Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe. Community reactions to the proposed name change have sparked a need to scientifically investigate the opinions of a representative sample of the community regarding the proposed name change. The study employed a quantitative approach, utilizing a representative sample survey with stratified random sampling to…

  • All in the mix

    Open AccessEmma Campbell, Ronnie DonaldsonARTICLEJournal of Housing and the Built…2025References: 16

    This paper offers a look at how neighbourhood aesthetics, public art, and housing conditions interact to shape urban transformation. The primary aim of the study is to investigate whether artwashing is a feature of gentrification in Salt River, a historic neighbourhood near Cape Town’s central business district. In order to achieve the aim, the following objectives were set: to conceptualise artwashing and gentrification; to conduct an aesthetic …

  • Social Justice in Post-Conflict Societies

    Open AccessRuth Mcareavey, Katharine A M Wright et al.ARTICLEBritish Journal of Sociology2025References: 38

    This article explores gender and social justice in post-conflict societies, using Northern Ireland as a case study. It focuses specifically on the socio-economic impact of the UK's withdrawal from the EU (Brexit) on women in Northern Ireland using a social justice framework, drawing on recognition, redistribution and representation as conceptualised by Nancy Fraser. It uses qualitative research conducted between 2022 and 2023 comprising focus gro…

  • The Impact of Brexit on Women, Peace and Security in Northern Ireland

    Open AccessKatharine A M Wright, Ruth Mcareavey et al.ARTICLEJCMS Journal of Common Market…2024Cited by: 1References: 14

    The impact of Brexit on Northern Ireland (NI) is now well established; however, less attention has been given to the impact on women, despite the applicability of the Women, Peace and Security agenda. In this policy commentary, we detail the impact Brexit has had on the issue of violence against women in NI. This is timely, given that the NI Executive Office has developed an Ending Violence against Women and Girls (VAWG) Strategic Framework, of w…

  • Diffusion and adoption of organic and biodynamic winemaking in the Western Cape

    Monique Douglas, Ronnie DonaldsonARTICLESouth African Geographical Journal2023

    As a useful and an insightful tool for analysing the different aspects and complexities associated with the adoption and diffusion of agricultural innovations the diffusion of innovation (DoI) theory was used as an analytical tool to identify and understand the adoption and diffusion of organic and/or biodynamic (O/Bio) winemaking practices in the Western Cape. Six case studies were compiled from qualitative interviews conducted – three certified…

  • Understanding how a cancer diagnosis can shape young people’s views of the future and their purpose in life

    Kendall Cotton Bronk, Ximena Giesemann et al.ARTICLEApplied Developmental Science2023

    Purpose formation often coincides with identity development, but what happens when these processes are disrupted by a cancer diagnosis, as is the case for more than 70,000 US young people each year? How does a cancer diagnosis shape adolescents’ and young adults’ views of their future and their purposes in life? To explore these questions, we conducted interviews with adolescent and young adult cancer survivors (AYA; N = 40). Findings suggest tha…

  • Urban planning history of Malawi

    Evance Mwathunga, Ronnie DonaldsonARTICLEPlanning Perspectives2022

    Like in other cities in the global South, rapid urbanization in Malawi continues to pose challenges for local authorities as manifested in un-ending struggles and contestation for urban space such as squatting and invasions of urban space. The research asks the question: how do the evolving and changing conceptions and perceptions of urban space shape or are shaped by planning and its associated spatial practices and representations of space? Spe…

  • I Cannot Stand up to my Chief nor the State

    Ibrahim Yakubu, Manfred Spocter et al.ARTICLEAfrican Studies2021Cited by: 4References: 25

    In Ghana, housing practices for the majority of urban residents lie outside the scope of formal housing markets and planning regulations. This has made urban upgrading a key component of physical development in cities in Ghana. In the face of accelerated urbanisation and the corresponding upsurge in informal housing practices, local authorities continue to grapple with the challenges of negotiating and implementing upgrading programmes without co…

  • Human Geographies of Stellenbosch

    Scott M Holtz, Ronnie DonaldsonEDITORBOOKThe mystery of lawlessness (The…2020

    Amid a growing ‘turn’ towards Southern cities, South African urban geographers continue to remind us why and how to attend to local context and draw on theory from elsewhere. Human Geographies of Stellenbosch: Transforming Space, Preserving Place? (edited by Ronnie Donaldson) provides a deep look at crucial questions facing one of South Africa’s most well-known town-cities. Written from years of local knowledge by scholars at Stellenbosch Univers…

  • Fijian infrastructural citizenship

    Open AccessLucas Watt, Ronnie DonaldsonEDITORARTICLECogent Social Sciences2020

    Infrastructure has historically been absent in informal settlements in Oceania. Oceanic governments have deliberately withheld infrastructure to these settlements denying them essential resources, human rights, and ways of life. Current reforms in urban policy seek to rectify this record by promising more inclusive infrastructures. In this article, I investigate the effect a promised electricity infrastructure had in an informal settlement in Suv…

  • A century of human geography at Stellenbosch University

    Ronnie Donaldson, Sanette L A FerreiraARTICLESouth African Geographical Journal2020

    As part of a special edition of the South African Geographical Journal on the centenary of geography at the University of Stellenbosch, this paper briefly documents the evolution of human geography since 1920 in the department. The paper is structured in three sections. First, a brief account is given of the contribution by an era of Piet Serton, founding professor of the department. Second and third, accounts of the urban and tourism geography s…

  • Introduction to reflections on a century of geography at Stellenbosch University

    Ronnie DonaldsonARTICLESouth African Geographical Journal2020

    This reflective paper, which introduces this special edition on a century of the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies at Stellenbosch University, begins by touching on two main features of the department since its inception, namely the fact that the department was founded mainly as a strong human geography department and the issue of Afrikaans as academic language. Then, brief descriptions are given of how the department is slowly ri…

  • Architecture in Southern African informal settlements

    Open AccessRudolf Perold, Ronnie Donaldson et al.ARTICLEUrbani izziv2019

    Architectural professionals can contribute to efforts at achieving sustainable urbanism. However, the realm of professional discourse is extremely limited. Grounded architectural practice (GAP) is developed as a conceptual framework to explore an emergent form of contextually appropriate architectural practice in the context of a resident-driven in situ informal settlement upgrading project. The exploration takes the form of a descriptive narrati…

  • Urban land contestations, challenges and planning strategies in Malawi’s main urban centres

    Open AccessEvance Mwathunga, Ronnie DonaldsonARTICLELand Use Policy2018Cited by: 4References: 18

  • The New Black Middle Class in South Africa by Roger Southall Oxford

    Open AccessRonnie DonaldsonARTICLEThe Journal of Modern African…2017

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  • ‘They are stealing my island’

    Open AccessTessa Wortman, Ronnie Donaldson et al.ARTICLESingapore Journal of Tropical…2016

    The small nation of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean, once a poor sugar plantation island, has successfully diversified and expanded its economy since independence, by attracting foreign investment in manufacturing and modern service industries. Tourism is a major part of the ‘Mauritian Miracle’; in recent years residential tourism—attracting wealthy foreigners to take up semi‐permanent residence—has become a growth industry transforming coastal are…

  • Development of a multi-criteria spatial planning support system for growth potential modelling in the Western Cape, South Africa

    Open AccessAdriaan Van Niekerk, Danie Du Plessis et al.ARTICLELand Use Policy2016Cited by: 1References: 39

  • Access to the urban national park in Cape Town

    Open AccessRonnie Donaldson, Sanette L A Ferreira et al.ARTICLEHabitat International2016Cited by: 5References: 38

  • Reshaping urban space through studentification in two South African urban centres

    Open AccessRonnie Donaldson, Julian Benn et al.ARTICLEUrbani izziv2014

    Accommodation shortages on campus force students to find accommodation in the private sector. These shortages result in single family residents increasingly being targeted for redevelopment into student housing. Studentification is a process where the original residents in the vicinity of tertiary institutions are gradually displaced due to an in-migration of students causing spatial dysfunctionality where, eventually, only the needs of a student…

  • An Uneasy Match

    Open AccessRonnie Donaldson, NICO KOTZE et al.ARTICLEUrban Forum2013

  • The South African area-based urban renewal programme

    Open AccessRonnie Donaldson, Danie Du Plessis et al.ARTICLEJournal of Housing and the Built…2013Cited by: 1References: 1

  • The urban renewal programme as an area-based approach to renew townships

    Ronnie Donaldson, Danie Du PlessisARTICLEHabitat International2013Cited by: 9References: 16

  • Relocation

    Ronnie Donaldson, Thobeka Mehlomakhulu et al.ARTICLEHabitat International2013Cited by: 4References: 4

  • Alternative Reflections on the Elderly's Sense of Place in a South African Gated Retirement Village

    Ravit Goldhaber, Ronnie DonaldsonARTICLESociety in Transition2012

    Moving to a gated retirement village compels the elderly to adjust to a new spatial location and lifestyle with an unfamiliar social environment and psychological conditions. The article focuses on the under-researched topic of a sense of place which active retirees develop in a gated retirement village. A theoretical discussion of the concept ‘sense of place’ is followed by a depiction of the gated lifestyle of the retirees, and how gated retire…

  • Non-metropolitan Growth Potential of Western Cape Municipalities

    Open AccessRonnie Donaldson, Adriaan Van Niekerk et al.ARTICLEUrban Forum2012