Browsing by Author "Maskiti, Bulelani"

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    A curated walk with peer researchers and their communities: engaging a research journey toward meaningful impact
    (UTS ePRESS, 2025) Rink, Bradley; Porter, Gina; Maskiti, Bulelani
    As a collective of peer researchers, scholars and members of a non-profit organisation, we have come together to share a curated walk through low-income communities in Cape Town and London. We do so with the intent of exploring the embodied and social experiences of walking and writing research differently through a collaborative process of listening, co-creating and sharing knowledge about the pedestrian mobilities of young men as mediated by the precarities of urban life. Our walking-writing practices are a hybrid of the actual practices of walking and potential for enacting change by valuing the everyday experiences and knowledge of peer researchers. The curated walk that we share guides readers on the research journey that we have taken together from the homes of those involved to the metaphorical centre of power in the cities/regions where our work takes place, with the intention of long-term, meaningful impact.
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    Young men's daily mobility needs and practices in two low-income neighbourhoods of Cape Town: reflections on first mile experiences, using an innovative community peer research methodology
    (Elsevier Ltd, 2025) Rink, Bradley; Maskiti, Bulelani; Porter, Gina
    Understanding how young men navigate their journeys is important in the context of improving safe mobility for all, especially for those resident in city neighbourhoods with high rates of crime and poverty. Over the past decade, knowledge has been accumulating regarding the challenges faced by young women as they travel around urban areas across the African continent, but young men's lived mobility experiences have been largely ignored. This represents a major research gap. There often seems to be an (unwritten) assumption that men are invulnerable - free to travel wherever and whenever they choose - but there is a lack of specific knowledge of realities on the ground and how they impact on men's lives. In this paper we report recent research conducted with young men aged 18–35 years in two low-income neighbourhoods in Cape Town, utilizing a qualitative participatory Peer Research methodology. The focus is on understanding how young men resident in low-income areas experience and practice mobility, as they walk between home and local transport hubs (the ‘first mile’), wait at the hub, then journey onwards on motorised transport. Our findings suggest that while men's perceptions of potential danger do not necessarily stop them travelling, they experience moments of considerable stress in such contexts, such that they have to engage with a diversity of tactics to try to ensure a safe journey. There are potentially significant impacts on young men's well-being.