@misc{Baron,
  author    = {Baron, Nicole},
  title     = {Verflechtungen im st{\"a}dtischen Gef{\"u}ge. Rezension zu Barbara Heer (2019): Cities of entanglements. Social life in Johannesburg and Maputo through ethnographic comparison},
  series = {sub\urban. Zeitschrift f{\"u}r Kritische Stadtforschung},
  volume    = {2021},
  journal   = {sub\urban. Zeitschrift f{\"u}r Kritische Stadtforschung},
  number    = {Band 9, Heft 1/2},
  publisher = {sub\urban e. V.},
  address   = {Berlin},
  doi       = {10.36900/suburban.v9i1/2.664},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20210806-44785},
  pages     = {235 -- 240},
  abstract  = {Dieser Artikel rezensiert die {\"u}berarbeitete Version von Barbara Heers Dissertation zu st{\"a}dtischen Verflechtungen in Johannesburg und Maputo. Das Buch ist 2019 im Transcript Verlag erschienen und umfasst 337 Seiten.},
  subject      = {S{\"u}dafrika},
  language  = {de}
}
@inproceedings{BaronMandavereCheruiyot,
  author    = {Baron, Nicole and Mandavere, Melody and Cheruiyot, Roselyne},
  title     = {SE/ NPO Ecosystems and urban Governance in Johannesburg},
  series = {ISTR, Fifteenth International Conference, Montreal, Canada},
  booktitle = {ISTR, Fifteenth International Conference, Montreal, Canada},
  doi       = {10.25643/bauhaus-universitaet.6364},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20230517-63643},
  pages     = {47},
  abstract  = {This paper presents initial findings from the empirical analysis of community based social enterprise (SE) and non-profit organisation (NPO) ecosystems in Johannesburg. SEs and NPOs are widely recognised as contributors to the resilience of marginalised urban communities. However, the connection between these organisations , urban governance, and community resilience has not yet been sufficiently understood , particularly in African urban contexts. The 'Resilient Urban Communities' project focuses on Johannesburg as a case study to shed light on this under-researched topic. The key to exploring it is understanding SEs and NPOs as providers of public services, job creators, and promoters of good governance, all of which contribute to community resilience. Using this premise as a starting point, this paper investigates ecosystem conditions with a particular focus on state-civil society partnerships. Empirical data was generated through semi-struc-tured interviews and analysed with a grounded theory approach. Preliminary results of this ongoing research reveal that urban geography is a relevant ecosystem factor for SEs and NPOs from marginalised communities. We also suggest that co-production could be an opportunity for growth within the investigated state-civil society partnership.},
  subject      = {S{\"u}dafrika},
  language  = {en}
}
@phdthesis{Baron,
  author    = {Baron, Nicole},
  title     = {Natural Urban Resilience: Understanding general urban resilience through Addis Ababa's inner city},
  doi       = {10.25643/bauhaus-universitaet.4416},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20210428-44166},
  school      = {Bauhaus-Universit{\"a}t Weimar},
  abstract  = {This dissertation describes the urban actors and spatial practices that contribute to natural urban resilience in Addis Ababa's inner city. Natural urban resilience is a non-strategical and bottom-up, everyday form of general urban resilience - an urban system's ability to maintain its essential characteristics under any change. This study gains significance by exposing conceptual gaps in the current un-derstanding of general urban resilience and highlighting its unconvincing applicability to African cities. This study attains further relevance by highlighting the danger of the ongoing large-scale redevelopment of the inner city. The inner city has naturally formed, and its urban memory, spaces, and social cohesion contribute to its primarily low-income population's resilience. This thesis argues that the inner city's demolition poses an incalculable risk of maladaptation to future stresses and shocks for Addis Ababa. The city needs a balanced urban discourse that highlights the inner city's qualities and suggests feasible urban transformation measures. "Natural Urban Resilience" contributes an empirical study to the debate by identifying those aspects of the inner city that contribute to general resilience and identifies feasible action areas. This study develops a qualitative research design for a single case study in Addis Ababa. The data is obtained through expert interviews, interviews with resi-dents, and the analysis of street scene photos, which are abstracted using Grounded Theory. That way, this thesis provides first-time knowledge about who and what generates urban resilience in the inner city of Addis Ababa and how. Furthermore, the study complements existing theories on general urban resilience. It provides a detailed understanding of the change mechanisms in resilience, of which it identifies four: adaptation, upgrading, mitigation, and resistance. It also adapts the adaptive cycle, a widely used concept in resilience thinking, conceptually for urban environments. The study concludes that the inner city's continued redevelopment poses an incalculable threat to the entire city. Therefore, "Natural urban resilience" recommends carefully weighing any intervention in the inner city to promote Addis Ababa's overall resilience. This dissertation proposes a pattern language for natural urban resilience to support these efforts and to translate the model of natural urban resilience into practice.},
  subject      = {Stadtforschung},
  language  = {en}
}