Claire Benit-Gbaffou

Claire Bénit-Gbaffou, PhD Geography, MA Planning, is a former fellow of Ecole Normale Supérieure (Ulm). She was an associate professor in the School of Architecture and Planning at Wits University (Johannesburg, South Africa) from 2008 to 2018, and has been posted since 2018 in the Département de Géographie, Aménagement, Environnement at Aix Marseille University (France). Her research focuses on the governance of large cities, and the relations between local activism and urban policy change. She is currently exploring practices of institutional activism in cities encountering a ‘progressive moment’, such as post-apartheid Johannesburg and Marseille under the Printemps Marseillais coalition.