Politics and Community-Based Research

Sarah Charlton (Editor) Sarah Charlton is a senior lecturer in the School of Architecture and Planning at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg and director of the Centre for Urbanism and Built Environment StudiesSophie Didier (Editor) Sophie Didier is a professor at the Paris School of Urban Planning, University Marne-la-Vallée, France and a researcher at Lab'Urba.Kirsten Dörmann (Editor) Kirsten Dörmann is a lecturer in the School of Architecture and Planning at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.Claire Bénit-Gbaffou (Editor) Claire Bénit-Gbaffou is Associate Professor in the School of Architecture and Planning at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.

• AcknowledgementsSection A Introducing the bookChapter 1 Why tell the story of Yeoville Studio? – Claire Bénit-GbaffouChapter 2 Introducing Yeoville: Context and representations – Sophie Didier and Claire Bénit-GbaffouChapter 3 Exploring the politics of community-engaged research – Claire Bénit-GbaffouSection B Narrating: The politics of constructing local identitiesChapter 4 Introduction – Sophie DidierChapter 5 Being young in Yeoville – Potsiso PhashaChapter 6 Africa Week Festival in Yeoville: Reclaiming a social and political space through art – Pauline GuinardChapter 7 Love stories – Willy-Claude Hebandjoko, Claire Bénit-Gbaffou and Shahid VawdaChapter 8 Constructing Yeoville community: Public meetings, local leadership and managing xenophobic discourse – Claire Bénit-Gbaffou and Eulenda MkwanaziChapter 9 Yeoville as a transgressional space: Voëlvry and the Afrikaner counterculture of the 1980s – Maria Suriano, William Dewar and Clara Pienaar-LewisChapter 10 Leaving Yeoville – Sophie Didier and Ophélie ArrazouakiChapter 11 The Yeoville Stories project: Looking for public history in Johannesburg – Sophie Didier and Naomi RouxSection C Recommending: From understanding micro-politics to imagining policyChapter 12 Introduction – Sarah CharltonChapter 13 My place in Yeoville: Housing stories – Kirsten Dörmann, Mpho Matsipa and Claire Bénit-GbaffouChapter 14 Urban compounding in Johannesburg – Kirsten Dörmann and Solam MkhabelaChapter 15 Community land trusts and social inclusion – Heinz Klug and Neil KlugChapter 16 Building stories – Claire Bénit-GbaffouChapter 17 Learning from low-income living in an inner-city suburb to inform policy – Sarah CharltonChapter 18 Sharing a flat in Yeoville: Trajectories, experiences, relationships – Simon Sizwe MaysonChapter 19 Running a spaza shop – Mamokete MatjomaneChapter 20 Integrating the ‘community’ in the governance of urban informality at the neighbourhood level – Mamokete Matjomane and Claire Bénit-GbaffouSection D Politicising: Community-based research and the politics of knowledgeChapter 21 Introduction – Claire Bénit-GbaffouChapter 22 Street trader stories – Nicolette PingoChapter 23 Designing with informality: Towards an urban design framework for Yeoville’s main street – Abdul AbedChapter 24 Street photography and the politics of representation: A portrait of Muller Street – Claire Bénit-Gbaffou and Sally GauleChapter 25 Knowledge construction in a multidisciplinary perspective: Portraying Natal-Saunders Street – Solam Mkhabela, Claire Bénit-Gbaffou and Kirsten DörmannChapter 26 Knowledge capital and urban community politics in Yeoville – Obvious KatsauraChapter 27 Activists in their own words – Eulenda Mkwanazi and Nicolette PingoChapter 28 Knowledge Production and the politics of community engagement: Working with informal traders in Yeoville and beyond – Claire Bénit-GbaffouContributorsPhotography creditsAcronymsList of tables and figuresIndex