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Athletic training services in public secondary schools: a benchmark study by Pryor, Riana R, Casa, Douglas J, Vandermark, Lesley W, Stearns, Rebecca L, Attanasio, Sarah M, Fontaine, Garrett J, Wafer, Alex M

“…Authors of the most recent study of athletic training (AT) services have suggested that only 42% of secondary schools have access to athletic trainers…”
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Using multisource data and the V-I-S model in assessing the urban expansion of Riyadh city, Saudi Arabia by Aina, Yusuf A., Adam, Elhadi, Ahmed, Fethi, Wafer, Alex, Alshuwaikhat, Habib M.

“…This paper examines the application of remote sensing, based on the Vegetation-Impervious surface-Soil (V-I-S) model and spatial metrics, in an urban analysis…”
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Can Social Impact Assessments (SIAs) be a sustainable strategy to address the skills development gap and community sustainability challenges in Just Energy Transition (JET) policy decision-making? Evidence from the South African mining communities of Kriel and Carolina in Mpumalanga by Chidzungu, Thandiwe, Wafer, Alex

“…South Africa's Just Energy Transition (JET) from coal to renewable energy in response to climate change mitigation policies comes packaged with social costs…”
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Loitering: reassembling time in the city-of-the-global-south by Wafer, Alex

“…One of the most powerfully visible ways in which public space in inner city Johannesburg is ordered is through the material presence of apparently idle young…”
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Top-down sustainable urban development? Urban governance transformation in Saudi Arabia by Aina, Yusuf A., Wafer, Alex, Ahmed, Fethi, Alshuwaikhat, Habib M.

“…This paper focuses on transformation in sustainable urban governance by examining the prospect of fostering sustainable development through top-down urban…”
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Documentary evidence: Navigating identity and credibility in Africa's urban estuaries by Rasmussen, Jacob, Wafer, Alex

“…In this article we argue for closer intellectual attention to the intersection between the unstable materiality of urban spaces on the one hand, and anxieties…”
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Liquidscapes of the City by Alex Wafer, Andrea Pavoni

“…The liquid reality of the urban has been often explored in the field of urban political ecology, which has considered the ways in which the city is actually…”
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Suburban road-closures and the ruinous landscapes of privilege in Johannesburg by Dirsuweit, Teresa, Wafer, Alex

“…In this article we trace the emergence of road-closures - i.e. the barricading by local residents of public roads ostensibly in response to crime - in the…”
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Social Networks within the City: Remaking the City through Movement and Collecting Materials in Johannesburg, South Africa by Rabbani, Fehmida Qaddus, Wafer, Alex, Moolla, Raeesa

“…This study examines the dynamics of networks among informal recyclers in Fietas, Johannesburg, South Africa, focussing on how these networks embody their…”
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Discourses of Infrastructure and Citizenship in Post-Apartheid Soweto by Wafer, Alex

“…In this article, I locate Soweto at the epicentre of the changing relationship between state infrastructural capacity on the one hand, and imaginations of…”
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Fire, (In)visibility and the Magic of the State by Alex Wafer

“…What follows is a brief description of a fire that ravaged an informal settlement in the urban peripheries of Johannesburg in October 2014. What this…”
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Assessing the Reliability and Validity of an Objective Method of Measuring Postural Stability: Preliminary Data 1131 Board #310 May 31 3 30 PM - 5 00 PM by Scarneo, Samantha E., Burland, Julie P., Wafer, Alex M., Giersch, Gabrielle EW, Curtis, Ryan M., DiStefano, Lindsay J., Casa, Douglas J.

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Local Politics and the Circulation of Community Security Initiatives in Johannesburg by BÉNIT-GBAFFOU, CLAIRE, FOURCHARD, LAURENT, WAFER, ALEX

“…The article analyses the emergence and circulation of community‐driven security initiatives in two types of setting in Johannesburg, South Africa: street…”
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Scale, governance and the maintenance of privileged control: The case of road closures in Johannesburg’s Northern Suburbs by Dirsuweit, Teresa, Wafer, Alex

“…An examination of development patterns, especially since 1990, leads one to the assertion that not only are racial divisions still firmly entrenched in the…”
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Local politics and the circulation of community security initiatives in Johannesburg by Fourchard, Laurent, Bénit-Gbaffou, Claire, Wafer, Alex

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Informality, Infrastructure and the State in Post-Apartheid Johannesburg by Wafer, Alex

“…The central argument of this thesis is that the spatiality of encounter between state and citizenship in post-apartheid South Africa is unequal and…”
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Critical cities I: security, citizenship and governance by Dirsuweit, Teresa, Bénit-Gbaffou, Claire, Wafer, Alex, Morange, Marianne, Didier, Sophie, Fabiyi, Oluseyi O, Pieterse, Edgar

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