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Journal Articles and Chapters

Abe T and Katsaura O, 2016, "Social Cohesion against Xenophobic Tension: A Case Study of Yeoville, Johannesburg", African Study Monographs,  37(2): pp. 55-73

Abed A, 2019, Designing with informality: Towards an urban design framework for Yeoville’s main street, in Bénit-Gbaffou C, Charlton S, Didier S, Doermann K (eds), Politics and Community Based Research - Lessons from Yeoville Studio, Johannesburg. Johannesburg: Wits University Press, pp. 291-314.

Bénit-Gbaffou C, 2011, "Yeoville Studio – negotiating the fine line between research and activism", in Etjabe N., Pieterse E, African Cities Reader II, Cape Town: Chimurenga Press, pp. 196-201.

Bénit-Gbaffou C, 2012, "Party politics, civil society and local democracy – Reflections from Johannesburg", Geoforum, 43(2), pp. 178-189.

Bénit-Gbaffou C, 2012, "Are Johannesburg peri-central neighbourhoods irremediably ‘fluid’? The local governance of diversity, mobility and competition in Yeoville & Bertrams", in Everatt C, Gotz G, Harrison P, Todes A (eds), Changing Space, Changing City: Johannesburg After Apartheid, Johannesburg: Wits University Press, pp. 252-268.

Bénit-Gbaffou C, 2019, Why tell the story of Yeoville Studio? in Bénit-Gbaffou C, Charlton S, Didier S, Doermann K (eds), Politics and Community Based Research - Lessons from Yeoville Studio, Johannesburg. Johannesburg: Wits University Press, pp. 3-10.

Bénit-Gbaffou C, 2019, Exploring the politics of community-engaged research, in Bénit-Gbaffou C, Charlton S, Didier S, Doermann K (eds), Politics and Community Based Research - Lessons from Yeoville Studio, Johannesburg. Johannesburg: Wits University Press, pp. 19-42.

Bénit-Gbaffou C, 2019, Building Stories, in Bénit-Gbaffou C, Charlton S, Didier S, Doermann K (eds), Politics and Community Based Research - Lessons from Yeoville Studio, Johannesburg. Johannesburg: Wits University Press, pp. 201-208.

Bénit-Gbaffou C, 2019,  Knowledge production and the politics of community engagement: Working with informal traders in Yeoville and beyond, in Bénit-Gbaffou C, Charlton S, Didier S, Doermann K (eds), Politics and Community Based Research - Lessons from Yeoville Studio, Johannesburg. Johannesburg: Wits University Press, pp. 381-400.

Bénit-Gbaffou C, Didier S and Roux N, 2010, "Célébrer l'ordinaire : vues de Yeoville par ses habitants", EchoGéo, 13.

Bénit-Gbaffou C and Gaulle S, 2019, Street photography and the politics of representation: A portrait of Muller Street, in Bénit-Gbaffou C, Charlton S, Didier S, Doermann K (eds), Politics and Community Based Research - Lessons from Yeoville Studio, Johannesburg. Johannesburg: Wits University Press, pp. 315-330.

Bénit-Gbaffou C and Mkwanazi E, 2012, "Expressions de la xénophobie en réunion publique et construction d'une identité de quartier : le cas de Yeoville, à Johannesbourg", Politique Africaine, 3/127, pp. 87-104.

Charlton S, 2019, Learning from low-income living in an inner-city suburb to inform policy, in Bénit-Gbaffou C, Charlton S, Didier S, Doermann K (eds), Politics and Community Based Research - Lessons from Yeoville Studio, Johannesburg. Johannesburg: Wits University Press, pp. 209-232.

Didier S, 2018, "Droit de mémoire, droit à la ville : essai sur le cas sud-africain", Géographie et Cultures, 105, pp.135-151.

Didier S, 2015, «We cannot eat Robben Island» : Mémoire de la lutte anti-apartheid et générations politiques", Questions Internationales, 71, Paris: La Documentation Française. 

Didier S, 2015, Mémoire d'Habilitation à diriger des recherches: Temps et pouvoir dans la ville. Géographie. Université Paris Ouest Nanterre la Défense.

Didier S and Arraouzaki O, 2019, Leaving Yeoville, in Bénit-Gbaffou C, Charlton S, Didier S, Doermann K (eds), Politics and Community Based Research - Lessons from Yeoville Studio, Johannesburg. Johannesburg: Wits University Press, pp. 117-129.

Didier S and Bénit-Gbaffou C, 2019, Introducing Yeoville: Context and representations, in Bénit-Gbaffou C, Charlton S, Didier S, Doermann K (eds), Politics and Community Based Research - Lessons from Yeoville Studio, Johannesburg. Johannesburg: Wits University Press, pp. 11-18.

Didier S and Roux N, 2019, The Yeoville Stories project: Looking for public history in Johannesburg, in Bénit-Gbaffou C, Charlton S, Didier S, Doermann K (eds), Politics and Community Based Research - Lessons from Yeoville Studio, Johannesburg. Johannesburg: Wits University Press, pp. 129-148.

Doermann K, Matsipa M and Bénit-Gbaffou C, 2019, My place in Yeoville: Housing stories, in Bénit-Gbaffou C, Charlton S, Didier S, Doermann K (eds), Politics and Community Based Research - Lessons from Yeoville Studio, Johannesburg. Johannesburg: Wits University Press, pp. 153-160.

Doermann K and Mkhabela S, 2019, Urban compounding in Johannesburg, in Bénit-Gbaffou C, Charlton S, Didier S, Doermann K (eds), Politics and Community Based Research - Lessons from Yeoville Studio, Johannesburg. Johannesburg: Wits University Press, pp. 161-178.

Guinard P, 2019, Africa Week Festival in Yeoville: Reclaiming a social and political space through art, in Bénit-Gbaffou C, Charlton S, Didier S, Doermann K (eds), Politics and Community Based Research - Lessons from Yeoville Studio, Johannesburg. Johannesburg: Wits University Press, pp. 57-74.

Hebandjoko WC, Bénit-Gbaffou C and Vawda S, 2019, Love Stories, in Bénit-Gbaffou C, Charlton S, Didier S, Doermann K (eds), Politics and Community Based Research - Lessons from Yeoville Studio, Johannesburg. Johannesburg: Wits University Press, pp. 75-86.

Katsaura O, 2019, Knowledge capital and urban community politics in Yeoville, in Bénit-Gbaffou C, Charlton S, Didier S, Doermann K (eds), Politics and Community Based Research - Lessons from Yeoville Studio, Johannesburg. Johannesburg: Wits University Press, pp. 347-364.

Katsaura O, 2015, "Ritualistic Spaces? Re-examining Invited Spaces of Participation", in Bénit-Gbaffou (ed), Popular Politics in South African Cities: Unpacking Community Participation. Pretoria: HSRC Press.

Katsaura O, 2014, "Contours of Urban Community Politics: Learning from Johannesburg", in Haferburg C and Huchzermeyer M (eds), Urban Governance in Post-Apartheid Cities: Modes of Engagement in South Africa’s Metropoles, Bontraeger Sciences Publishers/ UKZN Press, pp. 101-116.

Katsaura O, 2012, “Community Governance in Urban South Africa: Spaces of Political Contestation and Coalition”, Urban Forum, 23(3), pp. 319–342.

Klug H and Klug N, 2019, What to do with ‘bad buildings’ in Yeoville? Investigating community land trusts as a tool for regeneration and social inclusion, in Bénit-Gbaffou C, Charlton S, Didier S, Doermann K (eds), Politics and Community Based Research - Lessons from Yeoville Studio, Johannesburg. Johannesburg: Wits University Press, pp. 179-200.

Matjomane M, 2019, Running a spaza shop, in Bénit-Gbaffou C, Charlton S, Didier S, Doermann K (eds), Politics and Community Based Research - Lessons from Yeoville Studio, Johannesburg. Johannesburg: Wits University Press, pp. 249-256.

Matjomane M and Bénit-Gbaffou C, 2019, Integrating the ‘community’ in the governance of urban informality at the neighbourhood level, in Bénit-Gbaffou C, Charlton S, Didier S, Doermann K (eds), Politics and Community Based Research - Lessons from Yeoville Studio, Johannesburg. Johannesburg: Wits University Press, pp. 257-279. 

Mayson S, 2019, Sharing a flat in Yeoville: Trajectories, experiences, relationships, in Bénit-Gbaffou C, Charlton S, Didier S, Doermann K (eds), Politics and Community Based Research - Lessons from Yeoville Studio, Johannesburg. Johannesburg: Wits University Press, pp. 233-248.

Mayson S and Charlton S, 2015, "Accommodation and Tenuous Livelihoods in Johannesburg’s Inner City: the ‘Rooms’ and ‘Spaces’ Typologies", Urban Forum, 26(3), pp. 343–372.

Mkhabela S, Bénit-Gbaffou C and Doermann K, 2019, Knowledge construction in a multidisciplinary perspective: Portraying Natal-Saunders Street, 2019,  in Bénit-Gbaffou C, Charlton S, Didier S, Doermann K (eds), Politics and Community Based Research - Lessons from Yeoville Studio, Johannesburg. Johannesburg: Wits University Press, pp. 331-346.

Mkwanazi E and Bénit-Gbaffou C, 2012, "Constructing Communities in Public Meetings: Local Leaders and The Management of Xenophobic Discourses in Yeoville". Chapter 5 in Bénit-Gbaffou (ed), Popular Politics in South African Cities: Unpacking Community Participation. Pretoria: HSRC Press.

Mkwanazi E and Pingo N, 2019, Activists in their own words, in Bénit-Gbaffou C, Charlton S, Didier S, Doermann K (eds), Politics and Community Based Research - Lessons from Yeoville Studio, Johannesburg. Johannesburg: Wits University Press, pp. 365-380.

Phasha P, 2019, Being young in Yeoville, in Bénit-Gbaffou C, Charlton S, Didier S, Doermann K (eds), Politics and Community Based Research - Lessons from Yeoville Studio, Johannesburg. Johannesburg: Wits University Press, pp. 47-56. 

Pingo N, 2019, Street traders' stories, in Bénit-Gbaffou C, Charlton S, Didier S, Doermann K (eds), Politics and Community Based Research - Lessons from Yeoville Studio, Johannesburg. Johannesburg: Wits University Press, pp. 283-290.

Suriano M, Dewar W and Pienaar C, 2019, Yeoville as a transgressional space: Voëlvry and the Afrikaner counterculture of the 1980s, in Bénit-Gbaffou C, Charlton S, Didier S, Doermann K (eds), Politics and Community Based Research - Lessons from Yeoville Studio, Johannesburg. Johannesburg: Wits University Press, pp. 105-116. 

Theses 

PhD 

Katsaura O, 2013 "Socio-spatial politics of community safety governance in Johannesburg", PhD thesis (Town and Regional Planning), School of Architecture and Planning, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.

Masters 

Abed AA, 2015 "Reframing Urban Design to sequence developing world cities: designing for patterns in Yeoville/Bellevue, Johannesburg", Masters in Urban Design thesis, School of Architecture and Planning, University of the Witwatersrand.

Dewar WJ, 2012, "Raga of the third space: recombining music, architecture & culture", Masters in Architecture thesis, School of Architecture and Planning, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.

Hebanjdoko Mbelenge WC, 2011, "Exploring the relationships between formal and informal trading along Raleigh street in Yeoville", MSc Development Planning thesis. School of Architecture and Planning, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.

Kimoto KM, 2010, "African diaspora: a place of integration in Yeoville", Masters in Architecture thesis, School of Architecture and Planning, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.

Kitenge M, 2011, "Arrival architecture: migrants, urban migration, Johannesburg", Masters in Architecture thesis, School of Architecture and Planning, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.

Lepore R, 2011, "Urban response: an exploration of architectural systems modulated through mediums of digital sound and music", Masters in Architecture thesis, School of Architecture and Planning, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.

Matjomane MD, 2013, "Strategies used by street trader's organisations to influence trading policy and management in the city of Johannesburg", Masters in Urban Studies thesis, School of Architecture and Planning, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.

Mayson S, 2014, "Accommodation and Tenuous Livelihoods in Johannesburg’s Inner City: the ‘Rooms’ and ‘Spaces’ Typologies", MSc Development Planning thesis, School of Architecture and Planning, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.

Mela C, 2011, "City market: sustainable urban lifestyle hub in Johannesburg", Masters in Architecture thesis, School of Architecture and Planning, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.

Mdzeke M, 2011, "How genealogy reveals the changing relationship between people and their use of recreational public space", Masters in Architecture thesis, School of Architecture and Planning, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.

Mkwanazi E, 2013, "On the ground/from the ground : The construction of neighbourhood visions by two local leaders : a comparative study of Yeoville and Dobsonville", Masters in Urban Studies thesis, School of Architecture and Planning, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.

Olver C, 2010, "Dislocation/Relocation: re-discovering, asserting & re-imagining identity in Yeoville",  Masters in Architecture thesis, School of Architecture and Planning, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.

Pienaar C, 2012, "Voelvry and the 'outlawed' Afrikaners: an analysis of 'the alternative Afrikaans music movement' and Afrikaner identity", MA (History) thesis, School of Social Sciences, Univeristy of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.

 

Selection of Honours research reports 

Jackson M, 2010, "The functioning of continental ingredient supply chain economies in Johannesburg: A case study of three African restaurants in Yeoville", Honours Research Report, School of Architecture and Planning, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.

Matjomane M, 2011, "Spaza shop keepers, the City and the local community - The case of Yeoville", Honours Research Report, School of Architecture and Planning, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.

Mkwanazi E, 2010, "In search of public spaces of participation in a diverse community: A study of three Yeoville public fora", Honours Research Report, School of Architecture and Planning, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.

Phasha P , 2010, "Youth Perceptions of Public Space in Yeoville: An Autophotographic Approach", Honours Research Report, School of Architecture and Planning, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. [Winner of a South African Planning Institute Award]

Sello K, 2012, "Former street traders tell their stories: narratives in the inner city of Johannesburg",  Honours Research Report, School of Architecture and Planning, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.

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