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Sian Catherine Butcher

Assistant Professor

Additional Campus Affiliations

Assistant Professor, Geography and Geographic Information Science
Assistant Professor, Center for African Studies

Highlighted Publications

Butcher, S. (2023). Making Land ‘Developable’ for Market-Driven Affordable Housing in Gauteng, South Africa. In GeoJournal Library (pp. 65-84). (GeoJournal Library; Vol. Part F1806). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-37408-1_4

Butcher, S. (2022). The Economy: Metaphors and Models of Social Change: Metaphors and models of social change. In R. Ballard, & C. Barnett (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Social Change (pp. 219-231). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351261562-21

Butcher, S. C. (2021). New Ward for a New Johannesburg? Reformatting Belonging and Boundaries in the City’s South. Urban Forum, 32(2), 183-204. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12132-021-09426-8

Ballard, R., Parker, A., Butcher, S. C., de Kadt, J., Hamann, C., Joseph, K., Mapukata, S., Mkhize, T., Mosiane, N., & Spiropoulos, L. (2021). Scale of Belonging: Gauteng 30 Years After the Repeal of the Group Areas Act. Urban Forum, 32(2), 131-139. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12132-021-09429-5

Butcher, S. C. (2020). Appropriating rent from greenfield affordable housing: developer practices in Johannesburg. Environment and Planning A, 52(2), 337-361. https://doi.org/10.1177/0308518X19895278

Rubin, M., Samson, M., Butcher, S., Joffe, A., Merlo, S., Smith, L., & Wafer, A. (2020). Investigating infrastructures of urban inequality. In D. Francis, I. Valodia, & E. Webster (Eds.), Inequality Studies from the Global South (pp. 163-183). (Routledge Inequality Studies). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429282447-13

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Recent Publications

van Heyde, K. D., & Butcher, S. (2024). Investigating students’ perceptions of single-use plastics at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. Southern African Geographical Journal, 106(3), 340-360. https://doi.org/10.1080/03736245.2024.2315948

Butcher, S. (2023). Making Land ‘Developable’ for Market-Driven Affordable Housing in Gauteng, South Africa. In GeoJournal Library (pp. 65-84). (GeoJournal Library; Vol. Part F1806). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-37408-1_4

Butcher, S. (2022). The Economy: Metaphors and Models of Social Change: Metaphors and models of social change. In R. Ballard, & C. Barnett (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Social Change (pp. 219-231). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351261562-21

Ballard, R., Parker, A., Butcher, S. C., de Kadt, J., Hamann, C., Joseph, K., Mapukata, S., Mkhize, T., Mosiane, N., & Spiropoulos, L. (2021). Scale of Belonging: Gauteng 30 Years After the Repeal of the Group Areas Act. Urban Forum, 32(2), 131-139. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12132-021-09429-5

Butcher, S. C. (2021). New Ward for a New Johannesburg? Reformatting Belonging and Boundaries in the City’s South. Urban Forum, 32(2), 183-204. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12132-021-09426-8

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