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urban governance, comparative urbanism, Gender, Mobility
South Africa, Mozambique, Ethiopia, India

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Employment (1)

Cardiff University: Cardiff, GB

2022-01-17 to present | Lecturer in Spatial Planning (School of Geography and Planning)
Employment
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Margot Rubin

Education and qualifications (1)

University of the Witwatersrand: Johannesburg, Gauteng, ZA

2009-01-01 to 2013-11-18 | PhD (School of Architecture and Planning and School of Political Studies)
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Professional activities (1)

Southern Centre for Inequality Studies, University of the Witwatersrand: Johannesburg, Other, ZA

2019-01-01 to present | Research Associate
Invited position
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Margot Rubin

Works (22)

“She’s Here and I’m Not”: Parenthetical Parenting, Hegemonic Masculinity, and the Hidden Geographies of Oppression in the Gauteng City-Region, South Africa

The Professional Geographer
2025-01-09 | Journal article
Contributors: Margot Rubin; Lindsay Blair Howe; Alexandra Parker
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Planned stitching , practical suturing : assembling community voices and mobilisation across difference in Johannesburg’s corridors of freedom

City
2024-11 | Journal article
Contributors: Mike Makwela; Romain Dittgen; Margot Rubin
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Multiple publics, disjunctures, and hybrid systems: how marginalised groups stake their claims to transport infrastructure

2024-04-16 | Book chapter
Contributors: Lindsay Blair Howe; Margot Rubin; Sarah Charlton; Muhammed Suleman; Alexandra Parker; Anselmo Cani
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Oversights, Omissions and Ownership Visions: State-funded Walk-up Housing in Johannesburg

2023 | Book chapter
Contributors: Sarah Charlton; Neil Klug; Margot Rubin
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Rubin, M. and Parker, A., 2023. Many ways to care: mobility, gender and Gauteng’s geography. Gender, Place & Culture, 30(5), pp.714-737.

Gender, Place & Culture
2023 | Journal article
Contributors: Margot Rubin; Alexandra Parker
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Urban Governance of “Messy” Cities: Housing and the African City

2023 | Book chapter
Contributors: Margot Rubin; Neil Klug; Sarah Charlton
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Eternal urban youth?: Waithood and agency in Ethiopian and south African settlements. .

Rubin, M., Meth, P., Tshuwa, L., Charlton, S. and Kinfu, E., 2022. Eternal urban youth?: Waithood and agency in EGateways: International Journal of Community Research and Engagement,
2022 | Journal article
Contributors: Margot Rubin; Sarah Charlton; Paula Meth; Lesego Tshuwa; Eshetayehu Kinfu
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Mobility intersections: Gender, family, culture and location in the Gauteng City-Region.

Urban Forum
2022 | Journal article
Contributors: Margot Rubin; Alexandra Parker
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Local government as the stage for resistance: Strategies and tactics of opposing mega projects in the city of Johannesburg

Refractions of the National, the Popular and the Global in African Cities
2021 | Book chapter
Part of ISBN: 978-1-928502-15-9
Contributors: Margot Rubin
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Parkhurst’s ‘Go Green Initiative’: Governance, sustainable urbanism and social justice

2021 | Book chapter
Contributors: Margot Rubin
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Doing Boundary Work: Suburban Residents’ Associations in Johannesburg

Journal of Asian and African Studies
2021-11 | Journal article
Contributors: Margot Rubin
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Facing homelessness: Scales of spatial exclusion

Facing homelessness: Finding inclusionary, collaborative solutions
2021-01 | Book chapter | Writing - original draft
Contributors: Margot Rubin; Sarah Charlton
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At the Borderlands of Informal Practices of the State: Negotiability, Porosity and Exceptionality

Journal of Development Studies
2018 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85046619951

Contributors: Rubin, M.
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An effective public partnership for suburban land development: Fleurhof, Johannesburg

Suburban Land Question: a global survey,
2018-03 | Book chapter
Part of ISBN: 978-1-4426-4959-0
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A 'Marshall Plan' for human settlements: how megaprojects became South Africa's housing policy

Transformation
2017 | Journal article
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Spatial footprints of mothers in Johannesburg

2017-11-30 | Report
Contributors: Alexandra Parker; Margot Rubin
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Motherhood in Johannesburg: Mapping the experiences and moral geographies of women and their children in the city

2017-11-01 | Report
Contributors: Alexandra Parker; Margot Rubin
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South African cities in an urban world

South African Geographical Journal
2016 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-84979578314

Contributors: Harrison, P.; Rubin, M.
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Land, settlement and space: Conflict within the Western Limb of South Africa's Platinum Belt

Labour, Capital and Society
2015 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85026875024

Contributors: Rubin, M.; Harrison, P.
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Inclusionary housing policy: A tool for re-shaping South Africa's spatial legacy?

Journal of Housing and the Built Environment
2013 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-84885836162

Contributors: Klug, N.; Rubin, M.; Todes, A.
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'Insiders' versus 'outsiders': What difference does it really make?

Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography
2012 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-84869020610

Contributors: Rubin, M.
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Perceptions of corruption in the South African housing allocation and delivery programme: What it may mean for accessing the state

Journal of Asian and African Studies
2011 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-80052978295

Contributors: Rubin, M.
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Peer review (2 reviews for 2 publications/grants)

Review activity for Contemporary Jewry. (1)
Review activity for Urban forum. (1)