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Urban areas in Africa are rapidly growing, and the expanding informal settlements have for long been in focus for different planning measures. Planning approaches, often inherited from colonial time and later sustained by independent governments have been criticized for their top down approaches and neglect of prevailing conditions in urban areas. With the neoliberal turn new models of planning and of service provision have been adopted, for example through privatization and public- private partnerships. This paradigm shift is visible in the discourse of governing informal settlements. Examples are the increasing focus on formalization of the areas, under influence by de Soto, and settlement upgrading through participation of various actors such as donors, NGOs and dwellers themselves, organized in community based organizations.
This panel wants to invite papers to discuss the types of power structures and relations these approaches have given rise to in different areas. What are the outcomes in terms of service and infrastructure provision and dwellers´ access to them? What rooms for maneuver to govern their settlements do different groups of citizens in informal areas have? Considering the theme of ECAS 4 “Africa engagements: on whose terms?”it is relevant to discuss the different experiences in African urban areas, in order to go beyond the stereotype models of state withdrawal in service provision and neo-liberalization in tackling informal settlements. By doing this we can reach a more nuanced understanding of the governance and planning processes in informal areas.
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Accepted Abstracts
The Face of Urban Poverty: Explaining the Prevalence of Slums in African Countries
Exit the Rentier State: Legislating to Provide Affordable and Secure Tenure in Kenya
Formalising Informal Settlements: How Social Relations and Identity Influence Changes to the Tenure Security of the Urban Poor in Durban, South Africa
Governing Informal Settlements in South Africa – Experiences Made in the National Pilot “N2 Gateway” for Sustainable Urban Development and Lowincome Housing Provision
"Confronting Urban Displacement: Social Movement Participation and Post- Eviction Resettlement Success in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania"
From Illegal Squatter Settlements towards Legal Shantytowns: Negotiations of Power and Responsibilities in Khartoum Shantytowns
Developing Cities in between the Formal and Informal
Governance Structures in Informal Settlements – A Study of Actors, Aims and Instruments in Addis Ababa
Informal Urban Housing Land Access and Planning Responses in Ethiopia
Governing Informal Settlements: The Role of Social Regulators
