Simon Bekker
Selected recent publications (2006–2021)
- Bekker S, S Croese & E Pieterse (eds) 2021 Refractions
of the National, the Popular and the Global in African Cities.
Cape Town: African Minds.
Bekker, S. and N. Bromberger 2016 ‘A shift in Western development
agency thinking? The case for second best.’ Social Dynamics Vol.
42 , Iss. 3.
Bekker S.B. 2016 “La politique publique sud-africaine de I'
immigration après 2008: un survol.” In: Hamdouch B (ed.) L'Avenir
des Migrations Transmediterraneenne—au-delà des crises,
Association Migration Internationale, Rabat, France, 2016: 171–179.
Bekker, S. and L. Hill 2016 ‘Household language, residential
segregation and social mobility: continuity and change in eThekwini.’
African Population Studies. 30(2) 2255–2274.
Bekker, S. 2015 Entitlement demands and entitlement despair.
Reflections on the violent xenophobic episodes of 2015 and of
2008. African Human Mobility Review 1(3) 230–253.
Hill, L. B. and S.B. Bekker (2014) Language, residential
space and inequality in Cape Town: broad-brush profiles and trends,
African Population Studies, 28(1).
Bekker S. 2013 Book review of Denis-Constant Martin, Sounding
the Cape: Music, Identity and Politics in South Africa. African
Music 9(3) 183–186.
Bekker S. 2013 ‘Global transitions: Introducing South Africa
and the World.’ in Pillay U., G. Hagg & F. Nyamnjoh (eds.)
State of the Nation. South Africa 2012–2013. Cape Town: HSRC
Press. pp 581–588.
Bekker S. & L. Fourchard (eds.) 2013 Governing Cities
in Africa. Politics and Policies. Cape Town: HSRC Press.
Bekker S & G Therborn (eds.) 2012 Capital Cities in Africa:
Power and Powerlessness. Cape Town and Dakar: CODESRIA and HSRC
Presses.
Bekker S. 2011 ‘Quelle est l’importance des identités religieuses
pour les Sud-Africains aujourd’hui?’ Carrefours de l’ éducation
(numéro hors-série), Université de Picardie. (translation of
2010 article of same title).
Bekker S. 2010a ‘Explaining violence against foreigners and
strangers in urban South Africa: outbursts during May and June
2008.’ The African Yearbook of International Law. Vol. 16: 125–149.
Bekker, S. 2010b ‘How important are religious identities to
South Africans today?’ in Jacques Vanderlinden (ed.) Convictions
Philosophiques et Religieuses et Droits Positifs. Bruxelles:
Bruylant pp 113–131.
Bekker S. 2010c ‘U rban Identities in South Africa: Changes
over the Past 25 Years.’ in Sadran P., D Darbon, R Otayek (e
ds.) Mélanges en l’Honneur de Christian Coulon. Buxelles: Bruylant
pp 261–276.
Williams M. and S. Bekker 2008 ‘Language policy and speech
practice in Cape Town: an exploratory public health sector study’
Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies. 26(
1):171–183.
Bekker S. & A Leildé 2007 ‘De nouvelles identités urbaines
dans une nouvelle Afrique du Sud ? Classe, culture et race au
Cap et à Johannesburg’ in Fourchard L. (ed.) Gouverner les Villes
d’Afrique : Etat, Gouvernement Local et Acteurs Privés. Paris:
Kartala.
Bekker S. 2007 ‘Postface’ in Philippe Gervais- Lambony &
Gabriel Kwami Nyassogbo (eds.) Lomé. Dynamiques d' une Ville
Africaine. Paris: Kartala.
Bekker S & A Leildé (eds.) 2006 Reflections on identity
in four African cities. Cape Town: African Mines, including …
- Bekker S & A Leildé ‘Class, race and language in Cape Town
and Johannesburg’;
- Bekker S & A Leildé ‘The importance of language identities
in Libreville and Lomé’.
- Bekker S. 2006 ‘Migration from South Africa’s rural sending
areas: changing policies and changing destinations’ in Gallo-
Mosala S. (ed.) Migration Week 2006. Migration to South Africa
within International Migration Trends. Cape Town: The Scalabrini
Centre.