Jo Beall was a Deputy Vice Chancellor at University of Cape Town and chaired the ACC Board. She was linked to the Development Studies Institute at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), which she directed.A political sociologist, she specialises in urban development issues.
Nov 10, 2010 — Cape Town
Cities have long been connected with processes of bureaucratisation and state-building, as indeed they have long been linked to conflict and war. In bringing these two associations together we engaged ...
Oct 7, 2010 — Basel
Professor Jo Beall delivers this year's annual distinguished lecture of the Centre for African Studies Basel. The lecture is bridging the annual conference of the Commission for Research Partners ...
From the early 1980s decentralisation became integral to international development and by the mid-1990s 80 per cent of countries were engaged in some form of decentralisation (Crook and Manor 2000). ...
South Africa was not atypical in having to accommodate indigenous institutions in its new political order when the country made its transition from minority rule to a non-racial democracy in 1994. In ...
This article adopts a 'state-in-society' approach in order to take account of the impact of the transition to democracy in South Africa on social groups and their engagement with the state. ...
From the early 1980s decentralisation became integral to international development and by the mid-1990s 80 per cent of countries were engaged in some form of decentralisation (Crook and Manor 2000). ...
