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
Recent Publications
Harrison, K., & Butcher, S. (2025). Financialization, affordable housing and urban governance: a spatio-temporal analysis of four South African REITs. Urban Geography. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/02723638.2025.2486995
van Heyde, K. D., & Butcher, S. (2024). Investigating students’ perceptions of single-use plastics at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. South 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