Author

Suraya Scheba

Observed institution: University of Cape Town

ORCID: 0000-0001-6856-9103

Observed ORCID: 0000-0001-6856-9103

OpenAlex ID: A5062940010

Day Zero and The Infrastructures of Climate Change: Water Governance, Inequality, and Infrastructural Politics in Cape Town's Water Crisis

2020 · Nate Millington, Suraya Scheba · International Journal of Urban and Regional Research · 125

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Towards a multi-scalar reading of informality in Delft, South Africa: Weaving the ‘everyday’ with wider structural tracings

2018 · Liza Rose Cirolia, Suraya Scheba · Urban Studies · 72

Strengthening community-based adaptation for urban transformation: managing flood risk in informal settlements in Cape Town

2021 · Ashley Fox, Gina Ziervogel, et al. · Local Environment · 53

Occupations as reparative urban infrastructure: thinking with Cissie Gool House

2023 · Suraya Scheba, Nate Millington · City · 31

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REDD+ as ‘inclusive’ neoliberal conservation: the case of Lindi, Tanzania

2017 · Andreas Scheba, Suraya Scheba · Journal of Eastern African Studies · 29

Retrofitting, repurposing and re-placing: A multi-media exploration of occupation in Cape Town, South Africa

2021 · Liza Rose Cirolia, Nobukhosi Ngwenya, et al. · plaNext - Next Generation Planning · 10

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Crisis Temporalities: Intersections Between Infrastructure and Inequality in the Cape Town Water Crisis

2018 · Suraya Scheba, Nate Millington · International Journal of Urban and Regional Research · 9

‘Dwellers as designers’ – untangling the politics and practices of co-design ‘from below’ through a Cape Town housing occupation

2026 · Laura Nkula-Wenz, Suraya Scheba · Third World Quarterly · 3

Housing occupations as urban commoning: three modalities of transversal engagement

2024 · Suraya Scheba, Andreas Scheba, et al. · Cidades, comunidades e território/Cidades comunidades e territórios · 3

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Co-producing just geographies: Resourcing, bridging, and critical crossings in engaged scholarship

2023 · Suraya Scheba, Andreas Scheba · Dialogues in Human Geography · 2

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Viewpoint – The South African water sector: Municipal dysfunction, resistance, and future pathways

2022 · Suraya Scheba · DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) · 2

Pathways toward a dialectical urbanism

2021 · Suraya Scheba · Routledge eBooks · 2

Desalination as emergency fix: tracing the drought–desalination assemblage in South Africa

2018 · Suraya Scheba, Andreas Scheba · Edward Elgar Publishing eBooks · 2

Overcoming water scarcity for good? : querying the adoption of desalination technology in the Knysna Local Municipality of South Africa

2015 · Suraya Scheba · Research Explorer (The University of Manchester) · 2

Editorial

2025 · Yannis Tzaninis, Creighton Paul Connolly, et al. · Urban Political Ecology · 1

Making repair reparative: Towards expanded geographies of repair

2026 · Nate Millington, Suraya Scheba, et al. · Progress in Human Geography

Undoing crisis urbanism: Rewiring the circuits of relational harm towards relational repair

2026 · Suraya Scheba · Dialogues in Human Geography

Visualising urban commoning: geographies of precarity, defiance and hope

2024 · Joana Pestana Lages, Saila-Maria Saaristo, et al. · Cidades, comunidades e território/Cidades comunidades e territórios

Housing as commons: Sites of struggle and possibility

2024 · Joana Pestana Lages, Saila-Maria Saaristo, et al. · Cidades, comunidades e território/Cidades comunidades e territórios

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Works count: 19

Citation count: 346

H-index: 7

I10-index: 6