{"id":1706,"date":"2018-05-31T11:36:08","date_gmt":"2018-05-31T09:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/?p=1706"},"modified":"2018-06-08T11:47:04","modified_gmt":"2018-06-08T09:47:04","slug":"practices-of-the-state-in-urban-governance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/blog\/practices-of-the-state-in-urban-governance\/","title":{"rendered":"Practices of the State in Urban Governance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wits.ac.za\/cubes\/projects\/practices-of-the-state-in-urban-governance\/psug-international-workshop-2018\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1723\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/2018-PSUG-header2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/2018-PSUG-header2.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/2018-PSUG-header2-300x100.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/2018-PSUG-header2-768x256.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/2018-PSUG-header2-1024x342.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h4>An international workshop on the practices of the state in urban governance<\/h4>\n<p>As part of\u00a0<a class=\"profileLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Wits-University-School-of-Architecture-and-Planning-860405727364900\/?fref=mentions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-hovercard=\"\/ajax\/hovercard\/page.php?id=860405727364900&amp;extragetparams=%7B%22fref%22%3A%22mentions%22%7D\" data-hovercard-prefer-more-content-show=\"1\">Wits University \u2014 School of Architecture and Planning&#8217;<\/a>s &#8220;Practices of the State in Urban Governance&#8221; project, the Centre for Urbanism and Built Environment Studies (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wits.ac.za\/cubes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CUBES<\/a>) will host an international three-day workshop to consolidate the key findings of the programme.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #d22630;\"><strong>6-8 June |\u00a0<a class=\"profileLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/witsuniversity\/?fref=mentions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-hovercard=\"\/ajax\/hovercard\/page.php?id=40980638853&amp;extragetparams=%7B%22fref%22%3A%22mentions%22%7D\" data-hovercard-prefer-more-content-show=\"1\">University of the Witwatersrand<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>6 June <\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">8.30 to 19.30 | Seminar Room, Humanities Graduate Centre<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>7 June\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">9.00 to 18.00 |\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Seminar Room, Humanities Graduate Centre<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>8 June<\/strong> <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">\u00a09.00 to 13.00 | Basement A4, John<\/span> Moffat Building<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #d22630;\">Themes<\/span><\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">To understand state practices through the lens of urban change, international and\u00a0<span class=\"text_exposed_show\">South African scholars who have inspired or engaged with the theme of the programme will debate the main threads:<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_show\"><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Theme 1:<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>State-society encounters in the city \u2013 what do we learn about the state and its practices in the city, through these encounters?<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Driving change from outside the state? Beyond or besides contentious politics<\/li>\n<li>The politics of intermediation: Mediators, the poor and policy change<\/li>\n<li>Twilight institutions &#8211; expanding or undermining the state in urban governance<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Theme 2: State officials practices in the city \u2013 straddling agency and structure<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Unpacking officials\u2019 practices in the city of the South<\/li>\n<li>\u201cActivists in City Hall\u201d &#8211; a Southern view<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Theme 3: The politics of policy instruments for city making<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Policy instruments as embodiment of state rationalities<\/li>\n<li>Knowing and not knowing as modes of urban government<\/li>\n<li>Data, knowledge and the work of confusion: impeding the capacity to govern?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>On the final day of the workshop there will be two roundtables on the theme &#8216;The politics of studying the local state&#8217;, which will address questions around researching and writing about the local state:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Roundtable 1:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0Embedded or engaged research? Confronting the messiness of researching the local state<\/li>\n<li><strong>Roundtable 2:<\/strong>\u00a0 Building a research collective on the local state<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #d22630;\">Partners<\/span><\/h4>\n<p>This workshop is brought to you by Wits University&#8217;s\u00a0<a class=\"profileLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Wits-University-School-of-Architecture-and-Planning-860405727364900\/?fref=mentions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-hovercard=\"\/ajax\/hovercard\/page.php?id=860405727364900&amp;extragetparams=%7B%22fref%22%3A%22mentions%22%7D\" data-hovercard-prefer-more-content-show=\"1\">School of Architecture and Planning\u00a0<\/a>and\u00a0Centre for Urbanism and Built Environment Studies (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wits.ac.za\/cubes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CUBES<\/a>), the National Research Foundation (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nrf.ac.za\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NRF<\/a>), the National Centre for Scientific Research (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnrs.fr\/en\/aboutcnrs\/overview.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CNRS<\/a>) and IFAS-Research.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_show\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&gt; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wits.ac.za\/cubes\/projects\/practices-of-the-state-in-urban-governance\/psug-international-workshop-2018\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Full programme<\/a><br \/>\n&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2L5bD4M\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Register<\/a><br \/>\n&gt; <a href=\"mailto:claire.benit-gbaffou@wits.ac.za\">For more information<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An international workshop on the practices of the state in urban governance As part of\u00a0Wits University \u2014 School of Architecture and Planning&#8217;s &#8220;Practices of the State in Urban Governance&#8221; project, the Centre for Urbanism and Built Environment Studies (CUBES) will host an international three-day workshop to consolidate the key findings of the programme. &nbsp; 6-8 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1721,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,17,21,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-events","category-news","category-workshops-seminars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1706"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1724,"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1706\/revisions\/1724"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}