Dr. Jane Battersby-Lennard

Research Interests

I am an urban social and cultural geographer with ongoing research interests through Urban Food Security as part of the CIDA funded AFSUN programme (AFSUN website) and the Formas funded 'Ways of Knowing' project, which aims to use interdisciplinary approaches to reflect on the values inherent in the management of green spaces in urban areas. I am also a member of the SANPAD-funded project, "Healthy Cities for Children" with Children's Institute at UCT.

I have particular interests in urban food systems and the construction of food security theory in Northern and Southern research contexts. I have ongoing interest in the linkages between spatial transformation and identity transformation in post-apartheid urban areas - a topic I have addressed through the lenses of youth identities, education, music and land restitution.

Publications

• Battersby, J. (under review) Urban agriculture and race in Slocum, R. & Saldanha, A. (eds.) Geographies of Race and Food: Fields, Bodies and Markets, Duke University Press, Durham, NC.
• Battersby, J. (submitted) Beyond the food desert: finding ways to speak about urban food security in South Africa
• Battersby, J. (submitted) Urban food insecurity in Cape Town, South Africa: A critical assessment of the operation of the formal and informal food sectors
• Battersby, J. & Marshak, M. (submitted) Growing communities: Integrating the social and economic benefits of urban agriculture in Cape Town
• Battersby, J. (in press) Modelling Urban Food Security and Climate Change as a System of Temporal and Scalar Flows in Cape Town, South Africa Urban food security and climate change: A system of flows, in Moser, C., Frayne, B and Ziervogel, G. (eds) Climate Change, Assets and Food Security in Southern African Cities
• Battersby, J. (in press) Size matters: The role of settlement scale in urban land claims, in Donaldson, R. and Marais, L. (eds.) Contemporary Developmental Challenges in African Small Towns
• Battersby, J. (in press) Report on the findings of the Cape Town food security survey, AFSUN
• Lemon, A. & Battersby- Lennard, J. (2011) Studying together, living apart: emerging geographies of school attendance in post-apartheid Cape Town, African Affairs 111 (438) 97-120.
• Battersby-Lennard, J., Kandelman, Y. & Taroborelli, D. (2010) Time-warped maps: Mapping the mental image of a city through travel distances, Online conference paper for Mobile A2K: Resources, Interfaces, Contents for Urban Transformation. Bellagio, Italy
• Frayne, B., Pendleton, W., Battersby, J., Bras, E., Chiweza, A., Dlamini, T., Fincham, R., Kroll, F., Leduka, C., Mosha, A., Mulenga, C., Pomuti, A., Raimundo, I., Rudolph, M., Ruysenaar, A., Simelane, N., Tevera, D., Tsoka, M., Tawodzera, G. & Zanamwe, L. (2010) The state of urban food insecurity in southern Africa, Urban Food Security Series No. 2, AFSUN, Queen's University, Canada.
• Battersby-Lennard, J., Fincham, R., Frayne, B. and Haysom, G. (2009) Urban food security in South Africa: Case study of Cape Town, Msunduzi and Johannesburg Development Bank of South Africa Working Paper Development Planning Division Working Paper Series No. 15
• Battersby-Lennard, J. (2009) "Apartheid/Post-apartheid" International Encyclopaedia of Human Geography. Elsevier
• Lemon, A. & Battersby-Lennard, J. (2009) "Overcoming the apartheid legacy in Cape Town Schools" Geographical Review 99 (4) 517-538
• Lemon, A. & Battersby-Lennard, J. (2009) "Emerging geographies of school provision in Cape Town, South Africa" Geography, 94 (2), 79-87
• Battersby, J. (2005) "Re-inscribing race and ethnicity in post-apartheid South Africa" Gervais-Lambony P., Landy F., and Oldfield S. (eds). Fractured nations: Identity, space and territory in India and South Africa, New Delhi: Manohar, pp. 85-97.
• Battersby, J. (2004) "Cape Town's Model C schools: Desegregated and desegregating spaces?" Urban Forum 13 (4), 279-291.
• Battersby, J. (2004) "Seeking African Solutions: The new social and cultural geographies of South Africa." Social and Cultural Geography 5 (1), 151-157.
• Battersby, J. (2003) "Sometimes it feels like I'm not black enough": Recast(e)ing Coloured through South African Hip Hop as a postcolonial text", in Jacobs, S. and Wasserman, H. (Eds) Shifting Selves: Post-Apartheid Essays on Mass Media, Culture and Identity. Cape Town: Kwela Books, pp.109-29