Publications: Book Chapters

Infrastructure deficits and potential in African Cities

Edgar Pieterse, Katherine Hyman

2017. In: Burdett, R. and Hall, S. (eds.) The SAGE Handbook of Urban Sociology: New approaches to the twenty-first century city. London: Sage Publishers. The SAGE Handbook of the 21st Century City focuses on the dynamics and disruptions of the contemporary city in relation to capricious processes of global urbanization, mutation and resistance.  An international range…

The City in Sub-Saharan Africa

Edgar Pieterse

2017, In Short, J.R. (ed) A Research Agenda for Cities. London and New York: Sage. This book provides a critical assessment of key areas of urban scholarship. In twelve stimulating chapters, expert contributors examine a range of important pressing topics from sustainability and gentrification to feminist interventions and globalization to security and food issues. Six…

Gender and Food Security: Household Dynamics and Outcomes

Liam Riley, Alexander Legwegoh

2017. In Food and Nutrition Security in Southern African Cities (Frayne, B., Crush, J. & McCordic, C., eds.). Earthscan/Routledge. Development studies scholars recognize that the rights, entitlements, and material well-being of men and women must be equal for food security can be enjoyed by all. However, it is difficult to apply household level survey findings…

The Global Urban: Difference and Complexity in Urban Studies and the Science of Cities

Jenny Robinson, Sue Parnell

2017. In Burnett, R and Hall, S. (eds.) Sage Handbook on the 21st Century City, Sage, London.  The SAGE Handbook of the 21st Century City focuses on the dynamics and disruptions of the contemporary city in relation to capricious processes of global urbanization, mutation and resistance.  An international range of scholars engage with emerging urban conditions…

Rebuilding Consumer Trust in Food: Community Supported Agriculture in China

Zhenzhong Si

2017. In Jessica Duncan and Megan Bailey (eds.) Sustainable Food Futures: Multidisciplinary Solutions. Routledge, pp. 34-45. Securing sustainable food for everyone is one of the world’s most pressing challenges, but research, policy, and programmes remain fragmented, and effective solutions have been slow to emerge. This book takes on these challenges by proposing a range of solutions…

Characterizing Alternative Food Networks in China

Zhenzhong Si, Theresa Schumilas, Steffanie Scott

2017. In Sergio Schneider & Marcio Gazolla (eds.) Cadeias curtas e redes agroalimentares alternativas: Negócios e mercados da agricultura familiar. Porto Alegre, Brazil: Universidade Federal de Santa Maria (UFSM).

The Role of Law and Litigation in Street Trader Livelihoods

Caroline Skinner

2017. In A. Brown (ed.), Rebel Streets, Informal Economies and the Law (London: Routledge). This book explores the challenges faced by informal economy actors, with a particular focus on street vending. It offers a conceptual framework for relationship between law, rights, and space for the informal economy, the contest between traditional, modernist and rights-based approaches to development, and…

Gendered Access to Customary Land in East Timor

Pyone Myat Thu, Steffanie Scott, Kimberly Van Niel

2017. In Sara Niner (ed.), Women and the Politics of Gender in Post-Conflict Timor-Leste: Between Heaven and Earth. London: Routledge. This book presents a wide-ranging overview of the position of women in Timor-Leste, 15 years after the country secured its independence. It considers the role of women in Timor-Leste’s history, explores their role in the…

Rapid Economic Growth and Urban Food Insecurity

Benjamin Acquah, Stephen Kapunda and Alexander Legwegoh

2016. In J. Crush and J. Battersby (eds.), Rapid Urbanisation, Urban Food Deserts and Food Security in Africa (Switzerland: Springer). This book investigates food security and the implications of hyper-urbanisation and rapid growth of urban populations in Africa. By means of a series of case studies involving African cities of various sizes, it argues that,…

The Spatial Logic of Supermarket Expansion and Food Access

Jane Battersby and Stephen Peyton

2016. In J. Crush and J. Battersby (eds.), Rapid Urbanisation, Urban Food Deserts and Food Security in Africa (Switzerland: Springer). This book investigates food security and the implications of hyper-urbanisation and rapid growth of urban populations in Africa. By means of a series of case studies involving African cities of various sizes, it argues that,…