Stephen Hartman, PhD Cord / Fall, 2018 This work is based on the financial support provided by the National Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences. The author acknowledges that opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in any publication generated by the NIHSS- supported research is that of the author, and that the NIHSS […]
In this blog post, Shylashri Shankar reflects on the main lessons from A Secular Age Beyond the West: Religion, Law and the State in Asia, the Middle East and North Africa, a book she edited with Mirjam Kunkler John Madeley. The book traces the origins of religion and secularity in countries that have remained relatively untouched by Western Christianity. The cases […]
In the third instalment of CORD’s blog series, Ranjita Mohanty follows Fiona Anciano in reflecting on the subsistence of fishing communities, this time in India. Here, once again, we discover fishers who must navigate tensions wrought by poorly designed and enforced state regulations, uncompromising market forces, and a history of regressive identity politics. Mohanty’s account […]
Welcome back to CORD’s blog series. In our second instalment, we once again find ourselves in Cape Town’s Hout Bay. This time, the University of the Western Cape’s Fiona Anciano brings us into the precarious lives of the area’s fisherfolk. Wedged between South Africa’s complex racial politics, ill-conceived fishing quotas, and vagaries of the international […]
In the first instalment of CORD’s new blog series, the University of the Western Cape’s Laurence Piper reflects on Cape Town’s prevailing media landscape. He describes a recent encounter with two newspapers from the city’s Hout Bay area, and how they represent the lives of white and black citizens in different ways. These representations, Piper suggests, […]
It was recently the 40th anniversary of the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (IJURR). To commemorate this occasion, IJURR has posted this outstanding collection of articles. Make sure to take a look!
In cities of the global south, city hall is not fully sovereign and a variety of social actors, including national and local governments, businesses, and residents influence how and where people live. Creating a resilient and inclusive city means that all key actors must collaborate to address mounting social, economic and structural problems effectively. More […]
CORD’s Joanna Wheeler offers a critical reflection about her experience preparing and performing a TED Talk during the TEDGlobal 2014 event in Rio de Janeiro, this past October. Stay tuned for a video of Joanna’s talk, as it is released in the coming weeks. This blog has been reposted from the Sustainable Livelihoods Foundation website. By: Joanna Wheeler ‘That’s the magic […]
From September 25th – 27th, members of CORD’s Urban Violence working group met in Cape Town to collaborate on their on-going work to explore case studies of violence in urban areas around the world. In attendance at the workshop were: Shylashri Shankar, Centre for Policy Research, Delhi Andrew Charman, Sustainable Livelihood Foundation, Cape Town Laurence […]
[Note: This interview was originally titled: “Networking through the South: Interview by Vera Schattan Pereira Coelho, member of the Collaboration for Research on Democracy Network. It was written by Leandro Echt from Politics and Ideas, and the original version can be found on their website, here] How was the idea of CORD born? By 2000 we began […]