Urban Forum - Editors-in-Chief

Mercy Brown-Luthango

Mercy Brown-Luthango holds a DPhil in the Sociology of Work. Her main research focus is on the creation of sustainable human settlements with particular interest in the management of urban land and the operation of the urban land market. Her research has contributed towards a better understanding of the functioning of urban land markets and how inappropriate land management practices impact on poor people’s access to affordable and well-located land and housing in South Africa.  This research looks at the principles, instruments and potential of land value capture to address spatial inequalities and promote more equitable and  sustainable use of finite land resources.
 

Kira Erwin

Kira Erwin completed her MPhil at Cambridge (UK) and her PHD from the University of KwaZulu-Natal. Kira’s training is in sociology and her focus areas include race, the intersections of social identities and urban ethnography. She is also interested in how ideas around participation shape academic and civic practices in South Africa, and elsewhere.
 

Bradley Rink

Bradley is an urban and human geographer who brings to Urban Forum an interest in mobilities, place-making and identities in the context of African cities.  He looks forward to building on the achievements of his predecessors in continuing to support emerging and established scholars in their exploration of urban issues from an African perspective.  He is particularly interested in using social media to extend the reach of the journal not only to scholars, but also to activists, practitioners and communities/individuals who lend their knowledge to shaping urban life.