Current issue: Urban reform coalitions
This issue explores the processes through which coalitions negotiate a common understanding of the policies, programmes and practices of a more inclusive and prosperous urban future.
Its nine papers examine aspects including the way reform coalitions advance more equitable internal relations, reducing hierarchies between urban activists and professionals; discuss the contribution of reform coalitions to create cross-class alliances; and explore how academics can act as catalysts or intermediaries in coalitions.
These papers, from a range of urban contexts including Cape Town, Dakar, Durban, Harare and Lagos, and those analysing movements across Asian and African cities, allow authors to step beyond their primary academic and professional expertise to write about something in which they are deeply involved both as knowledge providers and as activists concerned with the future of their cities.
