Marius Pieterse

Don't know how many self-promotion tweets one is allowed per book but herewith a reminder that I recently published this one:

@CityPowerJhb Hi there, Parktown east went off same time as Braams and has not yet been restored?

#CityPowerUpdates #InnerCitySDC *Braamfontein Substation* We are pleased to inform customers in Braamfontein and surroundings that the power supply is fully restored. The outage was reported on Saturday due to faulty equipment. We thank the customers for their patience and, once again, apologise for the inconvenience. *Customers who are still off or experiencing any electricity-related issues are encouraged to log in calls on citypower.mobi or dial 011 490 7484. For escalations or updates of logged calls, please call 0800 003 156.*^LP

Interesting article on an under-researched side of housing financialization and on combating it through collective action tribunemag.co.uk/2025/11/join-a…

Can cities be subjects of human rights violations? Marius Pieterse lays out the pathways for the recognition of collective harm in human rights courts. academic.oup.com/ejil/advance-a…

Just out in the European Journal of International Law: Urban collectives as victims of international human rights violations. Open access. Thanks @ejiltalk ! doi.org/10.1093/ejil/c…

New open access article in Human Rights Law Review: Justiciable socio-economic rights as adaptive law for urban resilience doi.org/10.1093/hrlr/n…

The second May 2025 issue (Volume 62, Issue 7) of #UrbanStudies is out now! buff.ly/wpk3DhT Featuring articles by: @cm_leishman @satyamgoel08 @hjrouwendal @JRouwendal @mariusptrs @MengyuLiu92 @haeran_shin @claudiadiezmtz @DrMartinMuller

Corporations and cities under distress: Organised business and ‘emergency’ governance in Nelson Mandela Bay, South Africa by @mariusptrs and Amanda Spies buff.ly/wXpaS2B #OpenAccess #DisasterManagement #UrbanLaw

As wildfires continue to rage around Los Angeles, the climate disaster threatens to forever alter home insurance. Read the Big Take here. trib.al/8LH3AWl

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 ow.ly/R0Jh50TzjFm #DisasterManagement #LocalGovernment

New #OpenAccess article by @mariusptrs and Amanda Spies: Corporations and cities under distress: Organised business and ‘emergency’ governance in Nelson Mandela Bay, #SouthAfrica ow.ly/R0Jh50TzjFm #DisasterManagement #UrbanLaw

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 doi.org/10.47348/SALJ/…

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. tinyurl.com/yr645bn8 #urbanstudies #cityplanning #Africa

Africa's richest city, Johannesburg, is $12 billion behind on the maintenance and upgrades its power, water and road networks need trib.al/zUapGkJ

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

IGLP, Stellenbosch, South Africa, 2024

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.”

Check out my article with @AngelavanderBe1 on adaptive law and crisis governance in Dutch and South African cities, out today

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. bu.edu/articles/2024/… #HousingNotHandcuffs #JohnsonVGrantsPass

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 treasury.gov.za/comm_media/pre…

#UrbanLawDay2024 tackled legal frontiers for city sustainability in Stellenbosch! Read more here: 💌urbanpolicyplatform.org/2024-urban-law… ️ @islswan @mousmouti @PlessisAnel