Alan Mabin
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 954487 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Alan Mabin |
| PRENOMES | Alan |
| SOBRENOME | Mabin |
| ASSINATURA | MABIN A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of the Witwatersrand |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3191-2056 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 35 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 166 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 35 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1976 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Periferias africanas e as circunstâncias brasileiras
Um grande número de trabalhos publicados atualmente examina diversos aspectos das periferias das cidades brasileiras. As periferias certamente não são apenas áreas de pobreza, negligência e privação, mas também podem ser áreas de riqueza. Do outro lado do Oceano Atlântico, na África, periferias muito diversas são os locais de maior crescimento urbano. A terminologia usada para descrever essas áreas varia, e a palavra “subúrbio” é geralmente usada…
African peripheries and Brazilian circumstances
Substantial published work now examines diverse aspects of peripheries of Brazilian cities. Peripheries are certainly not only areas of poverty, neglect and deprivation, but can also be areas of wealth. Across the Atlantic ocean from Brazil, in Africa peripheries of great diversity are the sites of most urban growth. Terminology used to describe these peripheries varies and the word “suburb” is often used in various ways. Like Brazil, diversity a…
Las Ciudades Como Actores de las Relaciones Internacionales
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Contemporary planning and emergent futures
Africa’s Suburban Constellations
The past, present and future of African cities
The late American-South African historian Bill Freund wrote many works in an historical approach to urbanization and the environment, places and people, primarily on African cities. This article commemorates his intellectual contributions on African cities as well as urban South Africa more particularly. His work raises themes of interest for global urban and planning history
Why the global (and southern African) housing crisis eludes solution
Deborah Potts is no stranger to controversy. Her research on what is often termed ‘rural–urban migration’ or, more appropriately, ‘circular migration’1 has not yet been sufficiently taken on board
A Century of South African Housing Acts 1920–2020
The 1938 Johannesburg ‘Town Planning Exhibition and Congress’
By the 1930s most of what would shape South Africa for the rest of the twentieth century had surfaced: rural dispossession, rapid urbanisation, segregation, mass unemployment, and dreadful housing conditions, coupled with industrialisation and rapid growth in a volatile political context (see Callinicos 1987, Davenport 1989, Oranje 1998). Yet, it was also the setting for a spurt of idealism – a belief that it was possible to grasp the challenges …
Sedimentando a teoria da cidade do Sul no tempo e lugar
Ao mesmo tempo que simpático ao projeto de uma teoria urbana do Sul global e suas pretensões, este artigo é cético sobre a utilidade de uma "teoria urbana desde o Sul". O que precisamos, ou não temos ainda, é algo que não pode ser atingido somente desde o Sul, já que o mundo não está dividido de forma tão simples. O artigo rejeita a noção de que as teorias do "Norte" não possam ser úteis no Sul. Sugere que, ao invés disso, as teorias viajam e, ao…
Peripheries, suburbanisms and change in sub-Saharan African cities
The paper reports on developments in the peripheries and suburbs of African cities south of the Sahara. Many African economies are expanding at unprecedented scale and with profound urban results. The paper is based on an extensive review of secondary sources and a modicum of fieldwork. Following Ekers, Hamers, and Keil (2012 Ekers, M., Hamel, P. and Keil, R. 2012. Governing Suburbia: Modalities and Mechanisms of Suburban Governance. Regional Stu…
La mondialisation côté Sud
Alors qu’on parle de « village planétaire » dont tous les habitants accéderaient aux mêmes possibilités, au Sud, la mondialisation offre un visage particulier. S’ils ne sont plus nommés « en voie de développement » ou « du tiers monde », ces pays présentent des spécificités fortes. Les inégalités sociales et spatiales y sont plus marquées qu’au Nord. De même, l’augmentation des flux de personnes, de biens ou de capitaux échappe en partie aux soci…
Engagement and reconstruction in critical research
In this paper we examine critical engagement in research in order to rethink and reconfigure binaries such as theorizer and practitioner and theory and practice across South and North. We argue that while we welcome the 'moral geographies' literature (and its ideas about 'caring at a distance') as a catalyst for forging more beneficial connections between South and North, we suggest this is not enough. Drawing on South African experiences of crit…
Contested Urban Futures
From Colonization to Democracy
Race, class and the changing division of labour under apartheid
Reconstructing South Africa’s cities? The making of urban planning 1900–2000
During each period of extreme stress and turmoil in South Africa’s past century the idea of reconstruction has loomed large. A primary tool for reconstructing society has been presumed equally, by many parties, to lie in urban planning. As less turbulent times return, governments have attempted to reshape the society and, more particularly, the cities by developing new institutions, laws, visions, systems, personnel and plans. In each major case …
Low-income rental housing
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
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…
Urban crisis, growth management and the history of metropolitan planning in South Africa
Rethinking urban South Africa
Our reflection on past treatment of urban segregation begins with the assertion that the implicit acceptance of ‘race’ as a legitimate and primary category of inquiry has impoverished the understanding of residential segregation in the South African city. The first section of the paper illustrates the prevalence of racially defined empirical urban studies and tries to explain why this categorisation remains unchallenged. In the second section of …
Visiting our Urban past
No abstract available
Capital, coal and conflict
No abstract available
Books reviewed
Richard Werbner, Tears of the Dead: the Social Biography of an African Family (Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh, 1991), xi, 211pp, £30 Norma J. Kriger, Zimbabwe's Guerrilla War: Peasant Voices (Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 1992), x, 303pp, £35 K. Spink, Black Sash: the Beginning of a Bridge in South Africa (Methuen: London, 1991), xvi, 336pp, £14.99 Vernon February, The Afrikaners of South Africa (Kegan Paul International: London a…
Anxious Joburg
Peripheries, suburbanisms and change in sub-Saharan African cities
The paper reports on developments in the peripheries and suburbs of African cities south of the Sahara. Many African economies are expanding at unprecedented scale and with profound urban results. The paper is based on an extensive review of secondary sources and a modicum of fieldwork. Following Ekers, Hamers, and Keil (2012 Ekers, M., Hamel, P. and Keil, R. 2012. Governing Suburbia: Modalities and Mechanisms of Suburban Governance. Regional Stu…
Comprehensive segregation
In the early months of 1990, as the excitement of F.W. de Klerk's change of direction captured international attention, government television in South Africa offered its white viewers a new serial which revealed that those previously 'disqualified' people, showing an increasing tendency to move in next door, might even be 'People Like Us'.' This crude, if entertaining, ideological manipulation provided an extraordinary antithesis to earlier Natio…
Rethinking urban South Africa
Our reflection on past treatment of urban segregation begins with the assertion that the implicit acceptance of ‘race’ as a legitimate and primary category of inquiry has impoverished the understanding of residential segregation in the South African city. The first section of the paper illustrates the prevalence of racially defined empirical urban studies and tries to explain why this categorisation remains unchallenged. In the second section of …
Engagement and reconstruction in critical research
In this paper we examine critical engagement in research in order to rethink and reconfigure binaries such as theorizer and practitioner and theory and practice across South and North. We argue that while we welcome the 'moral geographies' literature (and its ideas about 'caring at a distance') as a catalyst for forging more beneficial connections between South and North, we suggest this is not enough. Drawing on South African experiences of crit…
Low-income rental housing
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…
Labour, capital, class struggle and the origins of residential segregation in Kimberley, 1880–1920
The Rise and Decline of Port Elizabeth, 1850-1900
Struggle for the city
The paper comprises a literature review and an interpretation of substantive research findings on the urbanisation process in contemporary South Africa. It is argued that the process is more complex than previous analysts have allowed, and that material rather than political factors are the primary constraint upon black urban settlement. The paper identifies the complex range of new urban settlements developing in South Africa, and the struggles …
La mondialisation côté Sud
Alors qu’on parle de « village planétaire » dont tous les habitants accéderaient aux mêmes possibilités, au Sud, la mondialisation offre un visage particulier. S’ils ne sont plus nommés « en voie de développement » ou « du tiers monde », ces pays présentent des spécificités fortes. Les inégalités sociales et spatiales y sont plus marquées qu’au Nord. De même, l’augmentation des flux de personnes, de biens ou de capitaux échappe en partie aux soci…
The Impact of Apartheid on Rural Areas of South Africa
The land clearances at Pilgrim's rest
Despite the volume of material dealing with forced removals in South Africa, there remain some obvious lacunae in the literature. I Among the removals which have been lost from sight in the publicity over dramatic, ideologically-based demolitions of urban group areas and rural black spots are the innumerable relocations of people from company-owned land in the Transvaal. So little is known about social conditions in these vast areas of the provin…
Contested Urban Futures
Sedimentando a teoria da cidade do Sul no tempo e lugar
Ao mesmo tempo que simpático ao projeto de uma teoria urbana do Sul global e suas pretensões, este artigo é cético sobre a utilidade de uma "teoria urbana desde o Sul". O que precisamos, ou não temos ainda, é algo que não pode ser atingido somente desde o Sul, já que o mundo não está dividido de forma tão simples. O artigo rejeita a noção de que as teorias do "Norte" não possam ser úteis no Sul. Sugere que, ao invés disso, as teorias viajam e, ao…
The Township Question at Pilgrims Rest, 1894–1922
(1985). The Township Question at Pilgrims Rest, 1894–1922. South African Historical Journal: Vol. 17, No. 1, pp. 64-83
A Pedogogic Approach to the Löschian System of Market Areas
A Pedogogic Approach to the Löschian System of Market Areas
The Township Question at Pilgrims Rest, 1894–1922
(1985). The Township Question at Pilgrims Rest, 1894–1922. South African Historical Journal: Vol. 17, No. 1, pp. 64-83
Labour, capital, class struggle and the origins of residential segregation in Kimberley, 1880–1920
The Rise and Decline of Port Elizabeth, 1850-1900
The land clearances at Pilgrim's rest
Despite the volume of material dealing with forced removals in South Africa, there remain some obvious lacunae in the literature. I Among the removals which have been lost from sight in the publicity over dramatic, ideologically-based demolitions of urban group areas and rural black spots are the innumerable relocations of people from company-owned land in the Transvaal. So little is known about social conditions in these vast areas of the provin…
Struggle for the city
The paper comprises a literature review and an interpretation of substantive research findings on the urbanisation process in contemporary South Africa. It is argued that the process is more complex than previous analysts have allowed, and that material rather than political factors are the primary constraint upon black urban settlement. The paper identifies the complex range of new urban settlements developing in South Africa, and the struggles …
The Journal of Charles Lennox Stretch
Is this our future
The Impact of Apartheid on Rural Areas of South Africa
Books reviewed
Richard Werbner, Tears of the Dead: the Social Biography of an African Family (Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh, 1991), xi, 211pp, £30 Norma J. Kriger, Zimbabwe's Guerrilla War: Peasant Voices (Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 1992), x, 303pp, £35 K. Spink, Black Sash: the Beginning of a Bridge in South Africa (Methuen: London, 1991), xvi, 336pp, £14.99 Vernon February, The Afrikaners of South Africa (Kegan Paul International: London a…
Comprehensive segregation
In the early months of 1990, as the excitement of F.W. de Klerk's change of direction captured international attention, government television in South Africa offered its white viewers a new serial which revealed that those previously 'disqualified' people, showing an increasing tendency to move in next door, might even be 'People Like Us'.' This crude, if entertaining, ideological manipulation provided an extraordinary antithesis to earlier Natio…
Capital, coal and conflict
No abstract available
Visiting our Urban past
No abstract available
Urban crisis, growth management and the history of metropolitan planning in South Africa
Rethinking urban South Africa
Our reflection on past treatment of urban segregation begins with the assertion that the implicit acceptance of ‘race’ as a legitimate and primary category of inquiry has impoverished the understanding of residential segregation in the South African city. The first section of the paper illustrates the prevalence of racially defined empirical urban studies and tries to explain why this categorisation remains unchallenged. In the second section of …
Reconstructing South Africa’s cities? The making of urban planning 1900–2000
During each period of extreme stress and turmoil in South Africa’s past century the idea of reconstruction has loomed large. A primary tool for reconstructing society has been presumed equally, by many parties, to lie in urban planning. As less turbulent times return, governments have attempted to reshape the society and, more particularly, the cities by developing new institutions, laws, visions, systems, personnel and plans. In each major case …
Low-income rental housing
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
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…
Race, class and the changing division of labour under apartheid
From Colonization to Democracy
Contested Urban Futures
Engagement and reconstruction in critical research
In this paper we examine critical engagement in research in order to rethink and reconfigure binaries such as theorizer and practitioner and theory and practice across South and North. We argue that while we welcome the 'moral geographies' literature (and its ideas about 'caring at a distance') as a catalyst for forging more beneficial connections between South and North, we suggest this is not enough. Drawing on South African experiences of crit…
La mondialisation côté Sud
Alors qu’on parle de « village planétaire » dont tous les habitants accéderaient aux mêmes possibilités, au Sud, la mondialisation offre un visage particulier. S’ils ne sont plus nommés « en voie de développement » ou « du tiers monde », ces pays présentent des spécificités fortes. Les inégalités sociales et spatiales y sont plus marquées qu’au Nord. De même, l’augmentation des flux de personnes, de biens ou de capitaux échappe en partie aux soci…
Peripheries, suburbanisms and change in sub-Saharan African cities
The paper reports on developments in the peripheries and suburbs of African cities south of the Sahara. Many African economies are expanding at unprecedented scale and with profound urban results. The paper is based on an extensive review of secondary sources and a modicum of fieldwork. Following Ekers, Hamers, and Keil (2012 Ekers, M., Hamel, P. and Keil, R. 2012. Governing Suburbia: Modalities and Mechanisms of Suburban Governance. Regional Stu…
Sedimentando a teoria da cidade do Sul no tempo e lugar
Ao mesmo tempo que simpático ao projeto de uma teoria urbana do Sul global e suas pretensões, este artigo é cético sobre a utilidade de uma "teoria urbana desde o Sul". O que precisamos, ou não temos ainda, é algo que não pode ser atingido somente desde o Sul, já que o mundo não está dividido de forma tão simples. O artigo rejeita a noção de que as teorias do "Norte" não possam ser úteis no Sul. Sugere que, ao invés disso, as teorias viajam e, ao…
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