Johannes Bhanye

Post Doctoral Research Fellow, University of Cape Town, since 2024per ORCID

I am an interdisciplinary researcher and critical urban scholar whose research revolves around four key themes: (a) urban informality, (b) geographies of urban inclusion and exclusion, and (c) urban transformation and (d) cities, space and power. My goal is to contribute to knowledge, public debate, policy discussions and practice around these themes. I am currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the African Climate and Development Initiative (ACDI), University of Cape… More on ORCID

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Career

As their ORCID record read on October 4, 2026

Positions

Post Doctoral Research Fellow, African Climate and Development Initiative (ACDI)University of Cape Townsince 2024
Post Doctoral Research Fellow, Urban and Regional PlanningUniversity of the Free State2022–2024

Education

Ph.D. Migration and Land Settlement, Center for Applied Social SciencesUniversity of Zimbabwe2018–2021
MSc. Social Ecology, Center for Applied Social SciencesUniversity of Zimbabwe2014–2016

Publications

Honours, memberships and service

Speaker: • Navigating Complex Pluriversal Relations: Indigeneity, Natural Resources Governance and Intercontinental Relations in the 21st centuryUniversity of Pretoria2022
2nd Workshop on Mobility and Sociality in Africa’s Emerging Urban: Theory focused Workshop on Urban Subjectivities.University of Ghana2019
Summer School: Intra-Regional Migration In Africa: Logics, Practices And Challenges, Merrian Institute of Advanced Studies (MIASA)University of Ghana2019
Best Group Achievements Award [Water-Energy-Food (WEF) nexus in Africa (Development by Innovation) Summer School] • Title of Project: Decentralized Energy-Water-Food systems in Africa: Space Analysis, Least cost modelling of sack farming and establishment of renewable energy technologies in the Diepsloot slums of Johannesburg, South Africa.Technical University of Munich2017
Graduate Internship GrantAssociation of African Universities2015
Young Scholars and Early Career Researchers Program GrantCODESRIA
Speaker: AFRICAN INFRASTRUCTURE FUTURES CONFERENCEUniversity of Cape Town2022
Speaker: • The Food System in the (Post-) Pandemic World: Disruptions, Vulnerability, Resilience, and Alternative 9ISA RC 40 Mini-Conference)University of Leipzig2022
Speaker: Migratory dynamics in Africa: state of play and challenges. Seminar organized by the National Council for Human Rights (CNDH) & Mohammed VI Polytechnic University of Ben GuerrirUniversité Mohammed VI Polytechnique2018
Speaker: Conference on Southern Perspectives on Migration Addressing Knowledge Production, Policies and CooperationUniversity of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg2018