| University | University West |
| Department | The School of Business, Economics and IT |
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| Keywords | citizenship, democracy, urban governance, work-integrated learning |
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| Website University West, in Swedish www.hv.se/personal/laurence-piper/ |
| Website University West, in English www.hv.se/personal/laurence-piper/ |
| Networks/thematic areas | Sustanable Urban Development |
| SDG:s | 4. Quality education, 11. Sustainable cities and communities, 17. Partnerships for the goals |
| Regions | Europe and Central Asia, North America, Sub-Saharan Africa |
| Country | South Africa, Canada, United Kingdom |
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| Reasearch / work |
| Laurence Piper is a Political Scientist at University West, Sweden and the University of the Western Cape, South Africa, interested in urban governance, democracy, and informality. His latest book is 'Democracy Disconnected: Participation and Governance in a City of the South', Routledge, 2019, with Professor Fiona Anciano. He is a former President of the South African Association of Political Studies (SAAPS) 2016-8, and the new Editor-in-chief of the journal Theoria.
More recent research is on work-inegrated learning, political science and critical theory. |