Watson
Biographic Data
| ID | 25888 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Watson |
| FAMILY NAME | Watson |
| SIGNATURE | WATSON |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cape Town |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9965-6891 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 62 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1047 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 62 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
Substance use among trans and gender diverse young people in Australia: Patterns, correlates and motivations
Contextualising Experiences of Co-Occurring Mental Ill-Health and Substance Use Among Trans, Non-Binary, and Gender Diverse Young People: Implications for Tailored Harm Reduction Approaches
Though significant research highlights higher rates of mental ill-health and substance use among trans, non-binary and gender diverse (henceforth 'trans') young people, little research has considered patterns, contextual characteristics, and correlates of co-occurring experiences of mental ill-health and substance use among trans young people. Using data from the Trans Pathways study, we used prevalence ratios and age- and gender-adjusted logisti…
Stitching Narratives: Poetic Autoethnography of Black Women's Mentorship in Academia
This study utilizes collaborative poetic autoethnography to explore the mentorship experiences of three Black women doctoral students at predominantly White institutions (PWIs). Through a series of poems, the research illustrates the nuanced challenges and resilience in seeking guidance within spaces that often marginalize their voices. This writing centers intersectionality as a theoretical framework, illuminating the complex dynamics of identit…
Planning Corruption or Corrupting Planning: A Sub-Saharan Africa Perspective
Problem, research strategy, and findings Here we illuminate the often overlooked, yet pernicious impacts of corruption in planning. We used a sequential mixed-methods approach, inclusive of a survey of 82 planning practitioners in Ghana and semistructured interviews with 17 of these survey respondents, to investigate planners’ experiences of corruption. We found that incentives for corrupt behaviors, structured by the particularities of planning …
Co-production and the issue of urban up-scaling and governance change in the global south: The case of Uganda
Co-production has emerged as a prominent strategy for producing urban spaces, delivering urban services and improving governance in poor but rapidly growing cities of the South. In the field of planning, it has been put forward as a more appropriate approach to what has generally been termed ‘public participation’: a term with its roots in the concept of collaborative planning emerging largely from experience in advanced economies of the West. Co…
Insights into relations in community-led urban interventions in the global South: Civil society and co-production in Kampala
For many decades, civil society organisations have been instrumental in driving the development agenda in many parts of the world. In the urban global South, these organisations have championed alternative, transformational and transnational grassroots-led urban development practice. An important dimension of their efforts has involved working with the state to jointly produce urban services and the urban space, an approach termed co-production. …
Challenges and opportunities of curbing urban corruption and building professional integrity: Experiences of planners in South Africa and Zambia
Don't cross the line, you're a researcher and not an educator: Incorporating indigenous researchers' moral perspectives to improve ethical protocols in health research
Given that researchers from North America and Europe author most global scientific publications, indigenous frontline researcher perspectives are rarely incorporated in the general research enterprise and ethics. Addressing this shortcoming, we analyzed a subset of data from a larger study. We present results from semi-structured in-depth ethnographic interviews with nine indigenous research assistants (RAs) conducted in Southern Africa four year…
Planning and informal food traders under Covid-19: The South African case
Decoding the impact of covid-19 on everyday life practices of Syrian refugees: an investigation at the neighbourhood level
Digital Visualisation as a New Driver of Urban Change in Africa
Cities in Sub-Saharan Africa are growing faster than in any other part of the world, driven by expanding informal settlement (usually on the urban periphery) and the real-estate sector aiming for up-market property development. The continent currently has the highest real-estate value growth potential in the world. Much up-market property development is currently taking the form of new ‘cities’—sometimes a redevelopment of an entire city (e.g., K…
The New York Patriot Movement: Partisanship, the Free Press, and Britain's Imperial Constitution, 1731-39
In 1730s New York, a group of partisan politicians led by Lewis Morris aligned themselves with a broader British movement known as Patriotism. Like their counterparts across England, Scotland, and British America, the New York Patriots advocated for a protofederalist imperial system and argued that British subjects everywhere were entitled to certain constitutional liberties—religious freedom, trial by jury, and a free press. The Patriots organiz…
The return of the city-region in the new urban agenda: Is this relevant in the Global South
A city-region strategy to achieve sustainable urban development is proposed in the New Urban Agenda (NUA) and related planning guidelines. This concept originates in planning ideas from the early 20th century, has since been subject to extensive and shifting theoretical debate, and has been tested in practice in various parts of the world. Yet, the guidelines propose a city-region concept with limited response to recent theoretical development, o…
Urban Planning in the Global South
Voices from and Within the State
Addressing food security in African cities
Southern Agency: Navigating Local and Global Imperatives in Climate Research
Researchers in the Global South are geopolitically distant from the places and people influencing global climate change debates. Their contribution in terms of academic publication is not large. Yet, by examining a South African research center, we show that these researchers negotiate their marginalization, optimize their local advantage, and navigate between national and global imperatives. Climate change requires global action and is a site of…
The Routledge Handbook of Planning Theory
Shifting Approaches to Planning Theory: Global North and South
Planning theory has shifted over time in response to changes in broader social and philosophical theory as well as changes in the material world. Postmodernism and poststructuralism dislodged modernist, rational and technical approaches to planning. Consensualist decision-making theories of the 1980s took forms of communicative and collaborative planning, drawing on Habermasian concepts of power and society. These positions, along with refinement…
Locating planning in the New Urban Agenda of the urban sustainable development goal
Making unhealthy places: The built environment and non-communicable diseases in Khayelitsha, Cape Town
In this paper, we examine how economic, social and political forces impact on NCDs in Khayelitsha (a predominantly low income area in Cape Town, South Africa) through their shaping of the built environment. The paper draws on literature reviews and ethnographic fieldwork undertaken in Khayelitsha. The three main pathways through which the built environment of the area impacts on NCDs are through a complex food environment in which it is difficult…
Doctor my eyes: A natural experiment on the demand for eye care services
Planning and Development
The allure of ‘smart city’ rhetoric: India and Africa
New visions of future cities, often graphically depicted as replicas of Dubai or Singapore and frequently promoted under the label of ‘smart cities’, are sweeping the Indian subcontinent, but increasingly they are appearing on the African continent as well. This response to Datta’s article draws the parallels and differences between what can be called ‘fantasy city’ ideas in these two parts of the world and warns of the consequences
The Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Heritage Research
xxvi, 560 pages ; 25 cm
Planning and the Case Study Method in Africa
This book addresses the relevance of the case study research methodology for enhancing urban planning research and education in Africa and the global South. It provides an introduction to the case stu
Seeing from the South: Refocusing Urban Planning on the Globe's Central Urban Issues
Urban planning in many parts of the world reflects an increasing gap between current approaches and growing problems of poverty, inequality, informality, rapid urbanisation and spatial fragmentation, particularly (but not only) in cities of the global South. Given past dominance of the global North in shaping planning theory and practice, this article argues that a perspective from the global South can be useful in unsettling taken-for-granted as…
African urban fantasies: Dreams or Nightmares
Labelled as the "last frontier" for international property development, sub-Saharan Africa's larger cities are currently being revisioned in the image of cities such as Dubai, Shanghai and Singapore, which claim top positions in the world-class city leagues. Draped in the rhetoric of "smart cities" and "eco-cities", these plans promise to modernize African cities and turn them into gateways for international investors and showpieces for ambitious…
Conflicting rationalities: Implications for Planning Theory and Ethics
The article argues that while certain recent planning theories have attempted to take account of social difference and multiculturalism, there is not yet sufficient recognition of just how deep difference can be, and how planners can frequently find themselves in situations characterized by conflicting rationalities. The article draws on a case of an attempted informal settlement upgrade in Cape Town, South Africa, to illustrate the gap between t…
Planning and the 'stubborn realities' of global south-east cities: Some emerging ideas
Five years ago Yiftachel (2006) called on planning theorists to focus attention on cities of the global 'South-East' where issues differ significantly from northern contexts - which currently inform much planning theory work. This article asks if any such new directions have emerged in this period. It first reviews recent writings on socio-political and material conditions in these cities and suggests a set of assumptions to inform thinking about…
Gilding the Smokestacks: The New Symbolic Representations of Deindustrialised Regions
Central to attempts to restructure the economic and industrial base of deindustrialised regions is the redefinition of image and the creation of new forms of identity. It is argued that this cultural focus is often absent from analyses of industrial change and the regeneration of localities. With a focus on two deindustrialised areas in Australia which have faced significant job loss in recent years, the local promotional texts are analysed to in…
The Usefulness of Normative Planning Theories in the Context of Sub-Saharan Africa
The article focuses on three contemporary and better-known normative theories of planning: communicative planning theory (Forester, Healey, Innes and others), the Just City approach (Fainstein), and those concerned with the recognition of diversity and cultural difference (Sandercock). Such theories are of great interest to planners who continue to grapple with the problem of overcoming the extreme forms of inequity, division and social breakdown…
Domestic diversity and fluidity among some African households in Greater Cape Town
(1996). Domestic diversity and fluidity among some African households in Greater Cape Town. Social Dynamics: Vol. 22, No. 1, pp. 7-30
The allure of ‘smart city’ rhetoric: India and Africa
New visions of future cities, often graphically depicted as replicas of Dubai or Singapore and frequently promoted under the label of ‘smart cities’, are sweeping the Indian subcontinent, but increasingly they are appearing on the African continent as well. This response to Datta’s article draws the parallels and differences between what can be called ‘fantasy city’ ideas in these two parts of the world and warns of the consequences
Deep Difference: Diversity, Planning and Ethics
The article suggests that planning's current sources of moral philosophy are no longer an entirely satisfactory guide on issues of ethical judgement in a context of deepening social difference and an increasingly hegemonic market rationality. A focus on process in planning and a relative neglect of product, together with the assumption that such processes can be guided by a universal set of deontological values shaped by the liberal tradition, ar…
Do We Learn from Planning Practice: The Contribution of the Practice Movement to Planning Theory
This article examines a central assumption that underlies what has been termed the practice movement in planning theory. The term refers to the great diversity of recent writings that focus on the activity of planning and the practices of planners. It is assumed that empirical accounts of planning practice can help to build a more useful and pragmatic kind of planning theory than can the generalized procedural or normative models that previously …
Low-income rental housing: Are South African cities different
A significant proportion of the black urban population in South Africa rent accommodation. Surveys conducted in two low-income settlements in Cape Town and Johannesburg show that the rental housing scene is in many ways similar to that found in other Third World cities. Landlords are older than their tenants, many are female, their families are larger, their homes have more space and better services. Few landlords make any money and landlord-tena…
Changing Planning Education in Africa: The Role of the Association of African Planning Schools
Planning laws, planning governance systems, and even planning curricula in Anglophone Sub-Saharan Africa were strongly shaped by the colonial history of the subcontinent, and much of this imprint remains today. Yet demands on planners and planning systems have changed dramatically as African cities battle to cope with rapid growth, inequality, informality and environmental degradation. This article considers the issue of changing planning educati…
Making unhealthy places: The built environment and non-communicable diseases in Khayelitsha, Cape Town
In this paper, we examine how economic, social and political forces impact on NCDs in Khayelitsha (a predominantly low income area in Cape Town, South Africa) through their shaping of the built environment. The paper draws on literature reviews and ethnographic fieldwork undertaken in Khayelitsha. The three main pathways through which the built environment of the area impacts on NCDs are through a complex food environment in which it is difficult…
Locating planning in the New Urban Agenda of the urban sustainable development goal
The return of the city-region in the new urban agenda: Is this relevant in the Global South
A city-region strategy to achieve sustainable urban development is proposed in the New Urban Agenda (NUA) and related planning guidelines. This concept originates in planning ideas from the early 20th century, has since been subject to extensive and shifting theoretical debate, and has been tested in practice in various parts of the world. Yet, the guidelines propose a city-region concept with limited response to recent theoretical development, o…
Addressing food security in African cities
Traditional Weaving as an Occupation of Karen Refugee Women
This study explores the meaning of weaving for Karen refugee women from Burma as they participated in their traditional practice of weaving in Salt Lake City, Utah. Participants included eight Karen refugee women. Data were collected through one focus group and in-depth, semi-structured, open-ended interviews, structured to capture past and present meanings related to weaving. Transcription and analysis of the interviews and focus group were guid…
The Colonial Gesture of Development: The Interpersonal as a Promising Site for Rethinking Aid to Africa
Roundtable on Urban Living Environment Research (Ruler)
Rental housing policy and the role of the household rental sector: Evidence from South Africa
Industrial Decentralization Policy in South Africa: Rhetoric and Practice
Industrial decentralization has formed a central element of state regional policy under South Africa's apartheid government. Increasingly, the government has attempted to justify this policy by linking it to international theories and precedents regarding regional development and the use of growth poles. This paper examines the potential efficacy of decentralization policy as a tool for promoting regional development in South Africa. It concludes…
Local government reform, urban crisis and development in South Africa
Co-production and the issue of urban up-scaling and governance change in the global south: The case of Uganda
Co-production has emerged as a prominent strategy for producing urban spaces, delivering urban services and improving governance in poor but rapidly growing cities of the South. In the field of planning, it has been put forward as a more appropriate approach to what has generally been termed ‘public participation’: a term with its roots in the concept of collaborative planning emerging largely from experience in advanced economies of the West. Co…
Challenges and opportunities of curbing urban corruption and building professional integrity: Experiences of planners in South Africa and Zambia
Don't cross the line, you're a researcher and not an educator: Incorporating indigenous researchers' moral perspectives to improve ethical protocols in health research
Given that researchers from North America and Europe author most global scientific publications, indigenous frontline researcher perspectives are rarely incorporated in the general research enterprise and ethics. Addressing this shortcoming, we analyzed a subset of data from a larger study. We present results from semi-structured in-depth ethnographic interviews with nine indigenous research assistants (RAs) conducted in Southern Africa four year…
M. Paul Deschamps
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Urbanization processes and policies in Africa: Lessons from Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe
The urbanization experiences of Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe are examined, with emphasis on the effectiveness of policies designed to influence urbanization. The first part of the study describes the measures adopted; the second part attempts to evaluate their effectiveness as well as their impact on poverty and inequality
The South African State and urbanisation policy: Crisis and response
Industrial Decentralization Policy in South Africa: Rhetoric and Practice
Industrial decentralization has formed a central element of state regional policy under South Africa's apartheid government. Increasingly, the government has attempted to justify this policy by linking it to international theories and precedents regarding regional development and the use of growth poles. This paper examines the potential efficacy of decentralization policy as a tool for promoting regional development in South Africa. It concludes…
Local government reform, urban crisis and development in South Africa
Local government restructuring in South Africa: The case of the Western Cape
In the current context of reform in South Africa, recent proposals by constitutional planners to restructure the system of local government are significant because they could have a substantial impact on the form and content of political struggle at the local level. Conversely, the evolution of the system of local government can itself be seen to have been altered and shaped by the particular dynamics of social and political change in different l…
Regional Development and Settlement Policy: Premises and Prospects
El Analisis De Conversacion Y La Educacion Primaria
En este artículo se desea esbozar una perspectiva sociológica, metodológicamente radical de reciente desarrollo Se descubrirán su orígenes, sus presupuestos, su aplicación en la esfera de la educación primaria y se indicarán así mismo algunos de sus potenciales pertenencias para la exploración futura en este campo. Aunque se hacen referencias a algunos sistemas educativos específicos, como todo artículo que presente una perspectiva sociológica ge…
Gilding the Smokestacks: The New Symbolic Representations of Deindustrialised Regions
Central to attempts to restructure the economic and industrial base of deindustrialised regions is the redefinition of image and the creation of new forms of identity. It is argued that this cultural focus is often absent from analyses of industrial change and the regeneration of localities. With a focus on two deindustrialised areas in Australia which have faced significant job loss in recent years, the local promotional texts are analysed to in…
Urbanization policy: Lessons from South America for South Africa
South African cities are currently moving through a critical period in the history of their development. Rates of growth over the last few years have been unprecedented and many of the factors which shape urban development (legislation, institutional structures, government spending patterns and so on) are currently undergoing significant transformation. Factors such as these have given rise to a concern that South African cities may face collapse…
Housing policy, subletting and the urban poor: Evidence from Cape Town
Devaluing diversity: National housing policy and african household dynamics in cape town
Postmodern Cities and Spaces
Domestic diversity and fluidity among some African households in Greater Cape Town
(1996). Domestic diversity and fluidity among some African households in Greater Cape Town. Social Dynamics: Vol. 22, No. 1, pp. 7-30
Low-income rental housing: Are South African cities different?
A significant proportion of the black urban population in South Africa rent accommodation. Surveys conducted in two low-income settlements in Cape Town and Johannesburg show that the rental housing scene is in many ways similar to that found in other Third World cities. Landlords are older than their tenants, many are female, their families are larger, their homes have more space and better services. Few landlords make any money and landlord-tena…
Low-income rental housing: Are South African cities different
A significant proportion of the black urban population in South Africa rent accommodation. Surveys conducted in two low-income settlements in Cape Town and Johannesburg show that the rental housing scene is in many ways similar to that found in other Third World cities. Landlords are older than their tenants, many are female, their families are larger, their homes have more space and better services. Few landlords make any money and landlord-tena…
Rental housing policy and the role of the household rental sector: Evidence from South Africa
Divergent development in South African cities: Strategic challenges facing Cape Town
Planning Education in Sub-Saharan Africa: Responding to the Demands of a Changing Context
The Usefulness of Normative Planning Theories in the Context of Sub-Saharan Africa
The article focuses on three contemporary and better-known normative theories of planning: communicative planning theory (Forester, Healey, Innes and others), the Just City approach (Fainstein), and those concerned with the recognition of diversity and cultural difference (Sandercock). Such theories are of great interest to planners who continue to grapple with the problem of overcoming the extreme forms of inequity, division and social breakdown…
Do We Learn from Planning Practice: The Contribution of the Practice Movement to Planning Theory
This article examines a central assumption that underlies what has been termed the practice movement in planning theory. The term refers to the great diversity of recent writings that focus on the activity of planning and the practices of planners. It is assumed that empirical accounts of planning practice can help to build a more useful and pragmatic kind of planning theory than can the generalized procedural or normative models that previously …
Conflicting rationalities: Implications for Planning Theory and Ethics
The article argues that while certain recent planning theories have attempted to take account of social difference and multiculturalism, there is not yet sufficient recognition of just how deep difference can be, and how planners can frequently find themselves in situations characterized by conflicting rationalities. The article draws on a case of an attempted informal settlement upgrade in Cape Town, South Africa, to illustrate the gap between t…
Women, difference and urbanisation patterns in Cape Town, South Africa
A point apparently often lost to policy makers is that those for whom policy is designed have very diverse life experiences. The article focuses on two women's experiences of urbanisation: experiences that are extremely different from one another, despite the common political-economic context in which they occurred. It considers these extreme examples in order to demonstrate that a simple disaggregation by gender is insufficient for understanding…
Deep Difference: Diversity, Planning and Ethics
The article suggests that planning's current sources of moral philosophy are no longer an entirely satisfactory guide on issues of ethical judgement in a context of deepening social difference and an increasingly hegemonic market rationality. A focus on process in planning and a relative neglect of product, together with the assumption that such processes can be guided by a universal set of deontological values shaped by the liberal tradition, ar…
‘The planned city sweeps the poor away…’: Urban planning and 21st century urbanisation
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