Laura Nkula-Wenz

I am a lecturer for the MA in ‘Critical Urbanisms’, a joint program between the ACC and the University of Basel, Switzerland. I am also the research coordinator for 'Cities of Integrity', a two-year long research project currently running at the African Centre for Cities, which focuses on the role of urban planners in fighting corruption at the city scale.

I have been trained as a geographer and have a keen interest in postcolonial urban theory, African urbanism and public culture. My research focuses on the transformation of urban governance and the construction of local political agency, on questions of urban experimentation and knowledge networks, as well as the nexus of cultural production and urban change.

I am holding a PhD in Geography from the University of Münster/Germany, where I also completed a degree in Human Geography, Communication Studies and Political Science. Prior to joining the University of Cape Town completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Pôle de re-cherche pour l'organisation et la diffusion de l'information géographique (Prodig) in Paris, funded by the Laboratory of Excellence “Territorial and Spatial Dynamics” (Labex Dyna-miTe).
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