Dark Roast Papers

Isandla Institute produces critical academic/policy think pieces, which reflect the work of staff and associates. The Dark Roast Papers deal with a range of topical development issues.

- 2009
  - Working Notes on Instututional Synergy and Poverty Reduction
    
    Edgar Pieterse
  - Disjunctures, Divides, and Disconnects: The Promise of Local Government in Development
    
    Patricia McCarney
  - On Informality & Considerations for Policy
    
    T.AbdouMaliq Simone
  - Embedded Autonomy' and the Re-Creation of Non-Racial South African Local Government
  - Developmental Local Government: The Second Wave of Post-Apartheid Urban Reconstruction
    
    Firoz Khan
- 2005
  - Transcending Cultural Paradigms: Events in the nth Dimension
    
    Yvonne A. Owuor
  - Bunkers for the Psyche: How Gated Communities have Allowed the Privatisation of Apartheid in Democratic South Africa
    
    Richard Ballard
  - A Cultural Perspective on meeting the Challenge of Slums
    
    Edgar Pieterse
  - 'Positive' urban futures in Sab-Saharan Africa: HIV/AIDS and the need for ABC (A Broader Conceptualisation)
    
    Mirjam van Donk
  - Spaces of Exclusivity or Connection? Linkages between a security village and its poorer neighbour in a Cape Town master plan development
    
    Charlotte Lemanski
- 2004
  - Douala/ Johannesburg/ New York: Cityscapes Imagined
    
    Dominique Malaquais
  - Building with ruins in dreams...exploratory thoughts on realising integrated urban development through crisis
    
    Edgar Pieterse
  - The Great GSM (cell phone) Boycott: civil society, big business and the state in Nigeria
    
    Ebenezer Obadare
  - South African Urbanism: Between the modern and the refugee camp
    
    T.AbdouMaliq Simone
  - Exploring Social Capital in an Urban Context
    
    Kirsten Harrison
  - Desegregating the City: Issues, Strategies and Blind Spots in comparative Perspective
    
    Xavier de Souza Briggs
- 2003
- 2001
  - Metropolitan governance under construction: Notes on the Unicity Experiment in Cape Town in the context of national municipal reform
    
    Edgar Pieterse
  - Working notes on institutional synergy & poverty reduction
    
    Edgar Pieterse
  - Delivering Social Services to the Poor
    
    Edgar Pieterse
- 2000
  - Disjunctures, Divides, and disconnects: The Promise of Local Government in Development
    
    Patricia McCarney
  - On informality & considerations for policy
    
    T.AbdouMaliq Simone
- 1999
  - 'Embedded Autonomy' and the re-creation of non-racial South African local government
- 1998
  - 'Developmental Local government': The second wave of Post-Apartheid urban Reconstruction
    
    Firoz Khan / Firoz Khan (Ed.)

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