Marius Pieterse

City-obsessed South African law professor researching urban governance, constitutionalism, socio-economic rights and the links between these

[Marius Pieterse @mariusptrs]

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

[Marius Pieterse @mariusptrs]

New article: The urban evolution of the right to health

https://t.co/erJQHlpthk

[Marius Pieterse @mariusptrs]

Workshop: The city as democratic frontier in an authoritarian age https://t.co/B6QJFcWRcg

[Marius Pieterse @mariusptrs]

Who in universities owns the time saved in the AI era? https://t.co/1RISc97dLy

[IJURR.org @IJURResearch]

How do citizens providing their own services reshape state sovereignty? This article examines off-grid infrastructure strategies across income levels in South Africa.

By Anciano, Lemanski, Culwick Fatti & Rubin

📖 https://t.co/IoBvPJt6Cq

[Marius Pieterse @mariusptrs]

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

[Marius Pieterse @mariusptrs]

Interesting article on an under-researched side of housing financialization and on combating it through collective action https://t.co/mAoCIuOdmR

[EJIL: Talk! @ejiltalk]

Can cities be subjects of human rights violations? Marius Pieterse lays out the pathways for the recognition of collective harm in human rights courts.

https://t.co/d5Q3SfDUVI

[Marius Pieterse @mariusptrs]

Just out in the European Journal of International Law: Urban collectives as victims of international human rights violations. Open access. Thanks @ejiltalk !
https://t.co/BreLEytqDX

[Marius Pieterse @mariusptrs]

New open access article in Human Rights Law Review: Justiciable socio-economic rights as adaptive law for urban resilience

https://t.co/voKSVXUk7o

[Urban Studies Journal @USJ_online]

The second May 2025 issue (Volume 62, Issue 7) of #UrbanStudies is out now!

https://t.co/EmmJZo98xq

Featuring articles by:
@cm_leishman @satyamgoel08 @hjrouwendal @JRouwendal @mariusptrs @MengyuLiu92 @haeran_shin @claudiadiezmtz @DrMartinMuller

[Urban Studies Journal @USJ_online]

Corporations and cities under distress: Organised business and ‘emergency’ governance in Nelson Mandela Bay, South Africa by @mariusptrs and Amanda Spies

https://t.co/zswkJVVy4R

#OpenAccess #DisasterManagement #UrbanLaw

[Bloomberg CityLab @CityLab]

As wildfires continue to rage around Los Angeles, the climate disaster threatens to forever alter home insurance. Read the Big Take here. https://t.co/rT7JCMXopF

[Urban Studies Journal @USJ_online]

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
https://t.co/iT8lNIw4Qk
#DisasterManagement #LocalGovernment

[Urban Studies Journal @USJ_online]

New #OpenAccess article by @mariusptrs and Amanda Spies: Corporations and cities under distress: Organised business and ‘emergency’ governance in Nelson Mandela Bay, #SouthAfrica
https://t.co/iT8lNIw4Qk
#DisasterManagement #UrbanLaw

[Marius Pieterse @mariusptrs]

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
https://t.co/rhsc3KknHa

[Urban Knowledge Exchange Southern Africa @UKE_SA]

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.

https://t.co/gKKGezsY8w

#urbanstudies #cityplanning #Africa

[Bloomberg Africa @BloombergAfrica]

Africa's richest city, Johannesburg, is $12 billion behind on the maintenance and upgrades its power, water and road networks need https://t.co/phwxX303Ju

[Marius Pieterse @mariusptrs]

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

[National Department of Health @HealthZA]

#MpoxUpdate Three more cases of mpox have been confirmed. The recent cases include a 17-year-old man from Hillbrow; a 37-year-old man from Pretoria East; a 29-year-old man from West Rand; and a 19-year-old man from Durban All cases are male, aged between 17- 43 years old.

[Dr. Maryam S. Khan @MaryamShKhan]

IGLP, Stellenbosch, South Africa, 2024

[Nikolas M. Rajkovic @NikolasRajkovic]

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.”