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09/19/2024

New article by Raffael Beier

Marginalized population groups have been struggling to find a decent permanent home in urban areas. Increasingly and recurrently they are affected by…

07/30/2024

Guest research stay by Newsha Salari from Ramon Llull University

As part of an Erasmus Plus programme, she spent two months at IPS and took part in a variety of academic activities.

The Central minibus station in Johannesburg with buildings in the background

07/30/2024

New article by D. Nthoki Nyamai and Sophie Schramm

The article deals with the effects of COVID-19-related infrastructure restrictions on marginalised groups.

Small agricultural field in the area of Khayelitsha in Cape Town

06/25/2024

Raffael Beier gives lecture at the Institute of Sociology at the University of Tübingen

As part of the G-TURN lecture series, he will give a guest lecture on "The Missing People of State-subsidized Housing" on 27 June 2024

Street with so-aclled 'Condominiums' in the suburb of Tulu Dimtu, part of the Addis Ababa metropolitan area in Ethiopia

06/19/2024

New commentary by Sophie Schramm

In the commentary, she takes a critical look at the term co-production

Small residential buildings and a street in Soweto in Johannesburg

06/10/2024

New article by Raffael Beier

The article takes a critical look at the Moroccan ‘Villes Sans Bidonville’ programme