Teaching & Supervision
Supervision
I am keen to supervise projects on urban poltical ecology, political ecology of climate transition and renewable energies, rural-urban tensions, postcolonial urbanism and southern urbanism, and infrastructure studies, including projects that involves creative methods such as photo, film and theatre.
PhD students
- 2021 (ongoing) Devika Prakash, a study of "smart cities" in the Indian context developed from an STS and Southern urbanism perspective, KTH Royal Institute of Technology. Co-supervisor. Main supervisor is Andrew Karvonen.
- 2020 (ongoing) Matthew Varco, a study into the political ecology of the far-right with a case study on völkish settlements in German, Department of Geography, The Unviersity of Manchester. Main supervisor. Co-supervising with Aurora Fredriksen and Erik Swyngeoduw.
- 2015-2019 Kathleen Stokes, a study of collaborative waste governance in Cape Town and Johannesburg as part of the TLR project on the political ecology of South African urban waste management (funded by ESRC-DFID). I am co-supervisor with Erik Swyngedouw at the University of Manchester as main supervisor. Ongoing.
- 2011-2015 Marnie Graham, “Postcolonial Nature Conservation and Collaboration in Urban Protected Areas: Everyday Relations at Macassar Dunes/Wolfgat Reserves, Cape Town, South Africa”, PhD Dissertation, Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University. Defended successfully: 27 February 2015.
- 2011-2015 Joshua Lewis, “Deltaic Dilemmas: Ecologies of Infrastructure in New Orleans”, PhD Dissertation, Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University. Defended successfully: 16 September 2015.
Postdoctoral researchers under my supervision:
- 2018-2019 Dr. Wangui Kimari, (anthropologist), African Centre for Cities, University of Cape Town, graduated from York University, Canada. GROWL Project. NOTE: I am also the supervisor for Dr. Kimari’s Urban Studies Foundation grant as International Fellowship during 2018-2019.
- 2018-2019 Dr. Ricardo Cardoso (critical geographer), African Centre for Cities, University of Cape Town, graduated from UC Berkeley. GROWL Project.
- 2016-2018 Dr. Nate Millington (critical geographer), African Centre for Cities, University of Cape Town, graduated from University of Kentucky. Study of the connection between international capital and the extraction of value from urban waste in South Africa and its relation to the urban poor. TLR Waste Project (ESRC-DFID). Ongoing.
- 2015-2017 Dr. Suraya Scheba (critical geographer), African Centre for Cities, University of Cape Town, graduated from The University of Manchester. Everyday informal economy and political ecology of Delft, Cape Town. Co-supervision with Edgar Pieterse in the NOTRUC Project. Ongoing.
- 2016-2017 Dr. Koni Benson(historian), African Centre for Cities, University of Cape Town, graduated from UCT. Histories of women organizing against forced eviction in Cape Town (post- and during apartheid) based on feminist theory of co-producing knowledge. The NOTRUC Project.
- 2011-2012 Dr. Mary Lawhon (human geographer), African Centre for Cities, University of Cape Town, graduated from Clark University. WOK-UE Project.
- 2012-2014 Dr. Anna Storm(historian), Department of Cultural Geography, Stockholm University, graduated from KTH Royal Institute of Technology. WOK-UE Project.
MSc student supervision:
(More to be added from The Unviersity of Manchster and KTH from 2017 and onwards)
- 2011 Johan Lundqvist (2011; case study in Kigali, Rwanda)
- 2010 Marnie Graham (2010; case study in Cape Town, South Africa)
- 2010 Elin Israelsson (2010; case study in Cape Town, South Africa)
- 2010 Christian Stein (2010; case study in Tanzania)
- 2009 Livia Benson (2009; case study in Stockholm, Sweden)
- 2007 Nils Johansson (2007; case study in Gaza, Palestine)
- 2005 Dissanayake Hasanthi (2005; case study in Sri Lanka)
Honours thesis supervision:
- 2011 Jessica Rattle (co-supervised, 2011; case study in Cape Town; WOK-UE Project)
- 2011 Georgina Avlonitis (co- supervised, 2011, case study Cape Town; MOVE Project)
