Marius Pieterse
@mariusptrs
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City-obsessed South African law professor researching urban governance, constitutionalism, socio-economic rights and the links between these
Johannesburg
Joined August 2011
Don't know how many self-promotion tweets one is allowed per book but herewith a reminder that I recently published this one:
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Just out in the European Journal of International Law: Urban collectives as victims of international human rights violations. Open access. Thanks @ejiltalk ! https://t.co/BreLEytqDX
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Abstract. Cities are places where people experience human rights violations collectively. Disputes arising from such experiences are increasingly percolati
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New open access article in Human Rights Law Review: Justiciable socio-economic rights as adaptive law for urban resilience https://t.co/voKSVXUk7o
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ABSTRACT. This article argues that justiciable socio-economic rights enhance the adaptability and resilience of domestic legal systems, thereby enabling ad
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The second May 2025 issue (Volume 62, Issue 7) of #UrbanStudies is out now! https://t.co/EmmJZo98xq Featuring articles by: @cm_leishman @satyamgoel08 @hjrouwendal @JRouwendal @mariusptrs @MengyuLiu92 @haeran_shin @claudiadiezmtz @DrMartinMuller
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Corporations and cities under distress: Organised business and ‘emergency’ governance in Nelson Mandela Bay, South Africa by @mariusptrs and Amanda Spies https://t.co/zswkJVVy4R
#OpenAccess #DisasterManagement #UrbanLaw
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As wildfires continue to rage around Los Angeles, the climate disaster threatens to forever alter home insurance. Read the Big Take here.
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As the fires continue to rage, the disaster threatens to forever alter home insurance.
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New study by @mariusptrs and Amanda Spies looks into the shifting relationship dynamics between an under-capacitated African municipal government and its #PrivateSector stakeholders during a time of overlapping crises https://t.co/iT8lNIw4Qk
#DisasterManagement #LocalGovernment
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New #OpenAccess article by @mariusptrs and Amanda Spies: Corporations and cities under distress: Organised business and ‘emergency’ governance in Nelson Mandela Bay, #SouthAfrica
https://t.co/iT8lNIw4Qk
#DisasterManagement #UrbanLaw
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My latest article, just out in the South African Law Journal, considers how residential building governance under sectional title (condominium) interacts with urban governance and local government law. DM if interested to read https://t.co/rhsc3KknHa
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Author: Marius Pieterse Source: South African Law Journal 141 I3, pp 589-621 (2024)
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Living the Urban Periphery offers a critical analysis of African city-regions. This book delves into the logics driving peripheral transformation, providing rich empirical data from Ethiopia, South Africa, and Ghana. https://t.co/gKKGezsY8w
#urbanstudies #cityplanning #Africa
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Africa's richest city, Johannesburg, is $12 billion behind on the maintenance and upgrades its power, water and road networks need
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Johannesburg, billed as Africa’s richest city because of its concentration of businesses and millionaires, needs 221 billion rand ($12 billion) to catch up on maintenance and overdue upgrades across...
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A preventable disease of which there's been outbreaks among MSM globally since 2022, for which a vaccine has existed since before then, which @HealthZA is reporting now with fatalist wonder and without a discernible plan other than "we'll see how it goes". Nothing learnt from HIV
#MpoxUpdate Three more cases of mpox have been confirmed. The recent cases include a 17-year-old man from Hillbrow; a 37-year-old man from Pretoria East; a 29-year-old man from West Rand; and a 19-year-old man from Durban All cases are male, aged between 17- 43 years old.
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How may territorialization be evolving beyond state-centred cartography? Join Scott, Marius and I this Thursday at 2pm @STIAS_SA @StellenboschUni @IGLP_HarvardLaw for our 2 day mini-course “Mapping the World: Legal, Historical and Racial Geographies.”
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Check out my article with @AngelavanderBe1 on adaptive law and crisis governance in Dutch and South African cities, out today
Governing Urban Crisis Through Adaptive Urban Law: Lessons from City Responses to COVID-19 in the Netherlands and South Africa Authors: @AngelavanderBe1, Marius Pieterse
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Monday, SCOTUS will hear arguments on whether cities can arrest & fine people for sleeping outside. @TomHByrne & I wrote for our BU community on why criminalizing homelessness is both cruel AND ineffective policy. https://t.co/OLjMvDH5OP
#HousingNotHandcuffs #JohnsonVGrantsPass
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As the US Supreme Court hears a historic case, Grants Pass v. Johnson, on criminalizing people sleeping outside, BU social scientists say there are better ways to prevent and end homelessness
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For close observers of South Africa's municipal context you might find this statement issued after the National Treasury budget speech to be of interest - on municipal PPPs. @LizaCirolia @CroeseSylvia @mariusptrs @kruger_wikus @DangaSACities
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#UrbanLawDay2024 tackled legal frontiers for city sustainability in Stellenbosch! Read more here: 💌 https://t.co/XTP491xBsU ️ @islswan @mousmouti @PlessisAnel
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South Africa's Secunda fuel plant is the world’s largest single-point emitter of greenhouse gas. With decarbonization likely to mean reduced operations, what will happen to the town that grew up around it?
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A fascinating article on San Francisco’s urban challenges.
A decade ago, San Francisco seemed to exist in a helium balloon, floating ever upward. Now it is widely regarded as an emblem of American collapse. What happened?
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Drawing insights on land-use, informal settlement& capitalist development in Durban, @mariusptrs &Thomas Coggin argue cities struggle to progressively govern land conflicts because planning systems remain rooted in property laws based on absolute ownership https://t.co/EgOUa4EpQg
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