Mitchell Centre Seminar Series
| Dates: | 12 February 2020 |
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| Times: | 16:00 - 17:30 |
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| What is it: | Seminar |
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| Organiser: | School of Social Sciences |
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Lorien Jasny, University of Exeter
Multiplex Networks of Civic Organizations in Cape Town, South Africa
The urban environment of Cape Town is contested along various dimensions of race, class and geography and presents an important case study to (i) learn about collective action processes in newly developing democracies, and (ii) how legacies of apartheid shape the structuring of civic networks. Drawing on a structural and relational network approach, we interviewed 130 civic associations mobilizing on a range of issues, including conservation of animals and habitat, the promotion of urban agriculture, and access to housing, water and sanitation. Groups came from white affluent areas, to black informal settlements (slums). Here we use Exponential Random Graph Models to test the extent by which there is mixing across geographic locales, racial composition, and levels of radicalization in the network of 120 organizations. We compare findings across networks of multiple types of ties: sharing information, sharing resources, working together on events, and sharing membership. First we look at individual ERG models for each tie, then combine them into social bonds and transaction ties following some theoretical work of Mario Diani (2015), and in the newest instalment evaluate some of these theories using the latest multiplex modeling packages for ERG models.
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