Johannes Bhanye
Johannes Bhanye is an Urban Planner and Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the African Climate and Development Initiative (ACDI), University of Cape Town. His current research is on Urban water adaptation: Exploring practices of adaptive governance for building urban water resilience in Cape Town. He holds a Ph.D. in Social Sciences (Migration and Land Settlement), an M.Sc. in Social Ecology, and a B.Sc. in Urban and Regional Planning both from the University of Zimbabwe. Johannes is a former Research Fellow at the University of the Free State [teaching Masters Modules on Research Methods for Urban Planners], the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Centre for Applied Social Sciences (CASS) at the University of Zimbabwe.
Dr Bhanye is very passionate about Southern and Postcolonial Urbanism with a particular focus on Spatial Justice, Urban Informality, Vulnerabilities in African Cities, Urban Health, Urban Governance, Complexity and Systems Thinking, Climate Risk and Urban Resilience, and Migration and Statelessness. He has practically conducted research projects in Zimbabwe, South Africa and Lesotho using Innovative Participatory and Ethnographic Methodologies in understanding the lived experiences of people surviving on the margins in African cities.