Publications: Book Chapters

Gender, Mobility and Food Security

Liam Riley and Belinda Dodson

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,…

Wild Food Consumption and Urban Food Security

Lauren Sneyd

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,…

Food Insecurity in a State in Crisis

Godfrey Tawodzera

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,…

Urban Food Insecurity and Social Protection

Daniel Tevera and Nomcebo Simelane

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,…

Participatory Paradoxes: Global Urban Policy in the Post 2015 Sustainable Development Agenda

Susan Parnell

2016. In Y. Beebeejan (ed.), The Participatory City (Berlin: Jovis), pp. 14-23. “Participation” has been a pivotal focus of urban studies since the 1960s. However, it is only over the last decade that new research aspects and critical debates on this subject have emerged across a wide range of disciplines. The changing role of planners, the…

Making Cities Fair

Susan Parnell

2016. In D. Simon (ed.), Rethinking Sustainable Cities (Bristol: Policy Press). Sustainable urbanisation has moved to the forefront of global debate, research and policy agendas over recent years. Rapid urbanisation throughout China, India and many other low and middle income countries poses new challenges both locally and internationally at a time when urban areas worldwide are…

Thinking About Cities: From Africa

Susan Parnell

2016. In A. Kelly and M. Kelly (eds.), Festival of the Future City (Bristol: Cultural Development Partnership), pp. 174-175.

Epistemological Practices of Southern Urbanism

Edgar Pieterse

2016. In W. Ding, A. Graafland and A. Lu (eds.), Cities in Transition II. Power, Environment, Society (Rotterdam: nai010 Publishers). Cities in Transition investigates the recent urban and political-economic developments in North America, South America, Europe, South Africa and China. It features contributions by 30 experts in the field, including Saskia Sassen, Fulong Wu, M. Christine Boyer,…

Industrial Livestock and the Ecological Hoofprint: Inequality, Degradation, and Violence

Tony Weis

2016. In The Routledge Handbook on Rural Studies (London: Routledge), pp. 205-214. Rural societies around the world are changing in fundamental ways, both at their own initiative and in response to external forces. The Routledge International Handbook of Rural Studies examines the organisation and transformation of rural society in more developed regions of the world, taking an…

The Meatifi cation of Diets

Tony Weis

2016. In Bill Pritchard, Rodomiro Ortiz, Meera Shekar (eds.) Routledge Handbook of Food, Nutrition and Security. London: Routledge. The meatifi cation of diets describes the movement of meat from the periphery of human consumption patterns – where it was for the vast majority of agricultural history – to the centre. It is more often referred to…