Dr. Bradley Rink

 

Dr. Bradley Rink

Position: Lecturer
Department: Geography,Environmental Studies & Tourism
Faculty: Faculty of Arts
Qualifications: BA (St. Johns University, USA); MA (University of Vermont, USA); PhD (UCT)
My publications in this repository
More about me: here, and here
Tel: 021 959 2626
Fax: 021 959 3422
Email: brink@uwc.ac.za

Recent Submissions

  • Public space on the move: Mediating mobility, stillness and encounter on a Cape Town bus 

    Rink, Bradley (SAGE Publications Ltd, 2023)
    As a public space, the environment of public transportation services is maintained by an ordered set of rules and conditions. Such rules and conditions are prescribed by law as they are in generally-accepted norms of social ...

  • Quartering the city in discourse and bricks: Articulating urban change in a South African enclave 

    Rink, Bradley M. (Springer, 2016)
    Focusing on the urban enclave in Cape Town known as De Waterkant, this paper examines the product and process of ‘quartering’ urban space—shaping urban space as the locus for the symbolic framing of culture. This paper ...

  • Performing cities: Engaging the high-tech flâneur 

    Rodríguez, Karen; Rink, Bradley M. (The Forum on Education Abroad, 2011)
    The city as place forms the backdrop to many study abroad experiences. Our sense of place, however, is often fractured by modern mobilities. As Sack (1988) notes, we move from place to place so much that places often begin ...

  • Community as utopia: Reflections on De Waterkant 

    Rink, Bradley M. (Springer, 2008)
    This paper will reflect on research currently in progress in Cape Town's De Waterkant neighbourhood—an area also known as Cape Town's 'gay village'. This paper engages the literature of utopia as a framework of analysis ...

  • Que(e)rying Cape Town: touring Africa’s gay capital with the pink map 

    Rink, Bradley M. (Centre for Geographical Studies: Lisbon, 2013)
    Since 1999, Cape Town’s Pink Map has attempted to provide local and international visitors alike with a cartographic representation of the city’s queer landscape. This paper engages with the archive provided by more than ...