Postdoctoral Fellow · Human geography
Dr Johnathan Goeiman
Dr. Johnathan Goeiman is a Postdoctoral Fellow with a PhD in Human Geography from the University of the Western Cape. His current research examines the economic dimensions of decline and revival in central cities in South Africa. Johnathan is a human and urban geographer by training and has expertise in ethnographic methods that explore how urban mobilities and infrastructures mediate city-region development and everyday urban life. His work has been published in both local and leading international journals.
Research focus
- Decline and revival in South African central cities
- Urban mobilities and infrastructures
- Ethnographic methods in urban research
- City-region development and everyday urban life
Selected publications
- Goeiman, J. (forthcoming) Infrastructural Place-Making and the Geographies of Relief in Johannesburg. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space.
- Goeiman, J. (2026). Embodied infrastructures and the spatial imagination of mobilities: ‘Following’ street waste-picker bodies within and among critical urban waste networks of Johannesburg. Urban Studies, 63(2), 337-354.
- Goeiman, J. and Rink, B. (2025) Waste Work in the Global South: Exploring Activity Theory as a Framework for Understanding Distributed Roles of Intermediaries in Cape Town’s Urban Waste Economy. Urban Forum 36, 43–61. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12132-024-09518-1