Projects

CityLab: Super-diversity

Director: Prof. Edgar Pieterse (UCT/ACC)
Deputy Director: Prof. Gordon Pirie (UCT/ACC)
Steering Committee: Prof. Steven Vertovec (MPI-MMG), Prof. Robin Cohen (Oxford), Prof. Gordon Pirie (UCT/ACC) more

Constructing borders, creating foreigners: Xenophobic conflict as dimension of super-diversity in post-apartheid South Africa (completed)

Melissa Steyn (University of the Witwatersrand) more

Exploring the continuum of coexistence and conflict: Modalities of engaging with difference in informal settlements in urban South Africa (completed)

Iriann Freemantle, PhD
Jean Pierre Misago, PhDc more

Heritage and super-diversity: a study of muslim womens’ identity in Cape Town (completed)

Rosabelle Boswell (Rhodes University) more

Migration and new religious diversities in South Africa (completed)

Peter Kankonde (MPI-MMG and ACMS, University of the Witwatersrand)
Lorena Nunez (Wits University)
Melekias Zulu (ACMS, University of the Witwatersrand) more

Multilingualism in late-modern Cape Town: a focus on popular spaces of Hip-Hop and Tshisa-Nyama (completed)

Policing racial boundaries: Exploring the relationship between intra-racial diversity and inter-racial relations (completed)

Kim Wale (University of Johannesburg) more

Reimagining diversity in post-apartheid observatory, Cape Town: a discourse analysis (completed)

Routes and Rites to the City: Migration, Emplacement and Religious Diversity in Johannesburg (completed)

Matthew Wilhelm-Solomon
Lorena Nunez
Peter Kankonde Bukasa
Bettina Malcomess more

Super-diversity and cultural heritage in the city of Cape Town (completed)

Rosabelle Boswell (Rhodes University) more

Surveying super-diversity in South Africa: Contact, attitudes and job-seeking (completed)

Owen Crankshaw (University of Cape Town)
Miles Hewstone (University of Oxford)
Hermann Swart (Stellenbosch University) more

The politics of multilingualism in South Africa (completed)

Lloyd Hill (Stellenbosch University) more

Writing invisibility (completed)

Matthew Wilhelm-Solomon (ACMS, University of the Witwatersrand) more