Research Outputs

The following research outputs demonstrate my focus on mobilities, the urban environment, and the relationships between space, place and identity. All are detailed below with links to publisher websites. Details of my research outputs may be found in my ORCID profile as well (you may follow the link or scan the QR code at right).

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles in Accredited Publications

Rink B, Makitle M, Mosikare M, Behrens R, Zuidgeest M, Schramm S, Nyamai D, Greiving S, Schnittfinke T, Scholz W, Momm S, Travassos L. (2025). Long-term travel behaviour impacts of Covid-19 on marginalised households in Cape Town, Transportation Research Procedia, 89, 499-510. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trpro.2025.05.077

Rink, B., Gumede, S., Moubachir, I., Seebach, N., & Widmer, P. (2025). Sonic urbanism(s): listening to the city. Cultural Geographies, 32(2), 281-286. https://doi.org/10.1177/14744740241293102

Goeiman, J., Rink, B. 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 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12132-024-09518-1

Porter, G., Rink, B., Maskiti, B., Clark, S., & Barber, C. (2025) 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, African Transport Studies, 3, 100033, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aftran.2025.100033.

Rink, B., Porter, G., Maskiti, B., Clark, S., Barber, C., with peer researchers Ashitey, J., Evans, A., Jucwa, S., Malangabi, B., Mpiliso, S., Ntozini, S., Pulickal Abdul Azeez, A., Siyatha, T., Sosanti, B., Uddin, R., Watson, D. (2025). A Curated Walk with Peer Researchers and their Communities: Engaging a Research Journey Toward Meaningful Impact. Gateways: International Journal of Community Research and Engagement, 18:1, 1–15. https://doi.org/10.5130/ijcre.v18i1.9217

Dyer, S., Hill, J., Walkington, H., Couper, P., McMorran, C., Oates, Y., Pant, L., Rink, B., & West, H. (2023). Courageous and compassionate teaching: international reflections on our responses to teaching geography during the pandemic. Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 48(4), 557–574. https://doi.org/10.1080/03098265.2023.2266999

Schnittfinke T, Greiving S, Nyamai DN, Scholz W, Schramm S, Behrens R, Zuidgeest M, Rink B, Momm S, Travassos L, Brauer B, Fischer L. (2024) Criticality assessment and cascading effects: impacts of COVID-19 disruptions in public transport on marginalized groups in Dortmund, Germany, São Paulo, Brazil, and Cape Town, South Africa. Journal of Surveillance, Security and Safety, 5(3): 140-159. http://dx.doi.org/10.20517/jsss.2024.11

Rink, Bradley. (2023) Emplacing students through everyday mobilities: From practice to theory, Transfers, 13(1/2): 55–67. https://doi.org/10.3167/TRANS.2023.13010205

Morgan, Njogu, Rink, Bradley. (2023). The Past in Present African Urban Mobility Systems: Towards a Mobilities Longue Durée. Urban Forum, 34(4): 413–418. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12132-023-09501-2

Rink, Bradley. (2023). Public space on the move: Mediating mobility, stillness and encounter on a Cape Town bus. Urban Studies, 60(15), 3027-3044. https://doi.org/10.1177/00420980221088123

Rink, Bradley. (2022). Capturing amaphela: Negotiating township politics through shared mobility. Geoforum, 136: 232-241. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2020.06.010.

Rink, Bradley and Crow, Justin. (2021). Horse/power: human–animal mobile assemblage in the contemporary city. Contemporary Social Science, 16(1): 84-95. https://doi.org/10.1080/21582041.2019.1655164

Rink, Bradley and Klaas, Lwando. (2021) Flying, health and the city: sensing aeromobility and risk in an informal settlement. Cities & Health, 5(1-2): 198-209. https://doi.org/10.1080/23748834.2019.1598925

Rink, Bradley, Mohamed, Kharnita, Ngoasheng, Asanda, Behari-Leak, Kasturi. (2020). Crossing borders as ‘new’ academics in contested times: Reflexive narratives of curriculum change and transformation. Critical Studies in Teaching and Learning, 8(1): 1-20, https://doi.org/10.14426/cristal.v8i1.229

Rink, Bradley. (2020). Liminality at-sea: Cruises to nowhere and their metaworlds. Tourism Geographies, 22(2): 392-412. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14616688.2019.1637450

Rink, Bradley (2020). Mobilizing theory through practice: Authentic learning in teaching mobilities. Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 44(1): 108-123. https://doi.org/10.1080/03098265.2019.1695107

Ramsawmy, Sharon, Rink, Bradley, and Anderson, Pippin. (2020). Rural and gated: Narratives of lifestyle migration to Grotto Bay Private Residential Estate, South Africa. South African Geographical Journal, 102(1): 77-96. https://doi.org/10.1080/03736245.2019.1631209

Rink, Bradley (2017). Mobile heterotopia: Movement, circulation and the function of the university, Kronos, 43(1): 137-151.

Rink, Bradley. (2017). The aeromobile tourist gaze: Understanding tourism ‘from above’, Tourism Geographies, 19(5): 878-896. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14616688.2017.1354391

Rink, Bradley and Gamedze, Asher. (2016). Mobility and the City Improvement District: Frictions in the Human-capital Mobile Assemblage, Mobilities, 11(5): 643-661. DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2015.1053716

Rink, Bradley. (2016). Race and the Micropolitics of Mobility: Mobile Autoethnography on a South African Bus Service. Transfers, 6(1): 62-79.

Rink, Bradley. (2016). Quartering the city in discourse and bricks: Articulating urban change in a South African enclave, Urban Forum, 27(1): 19–34, DOI: 10.1007/s12132-015-9270-8

Rink, Bradley. (2008). Community as utopia: Reflections on De Waterkant. Urban Forum 19 (2): 205-220.

Book Chapters in Peer-Reviewed Edited Collections

Bock, Z., Mnyaka, P., Oyowe, O, and Rink, B. (2024). What makes for a ‘good university’: Dialogue from a southern faculty. In M. Ralarala, S, Pillay, Z. Bock, & R. Kaschula (Eds) Unlocking the chains of knowledge: Understanding the challenges, remaking pedagogies and curriculum renewal. Stellenbosch: African Sun Media Publications, pp. 83-102.

Paulsen, Adrian. and Rink, Bradley. (2024). The Practice of Sharing: Mapping Food Networks in Delft, South Africa. In: K. Bohn and M. Tomkins, eds., Urban Food Mapping Making Visible The Edible City. New York: Routledge, pp.142–151.

Rink, Bradley. (2022). Cultures of flying and low-cost carriers in Southern Africa: Accessible air travel for all? In W. Lin & J-B Fretigny (Eds.), Low-cost aviation: society, culture and environment (pp. 83-97). Amsterdam: Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-820131-2.00007-2

[This chapter was chosen for inclusion in a special collection for RELX’s (Elsevier) SDG Resource Centre, as part of their campaign for International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination 2023.]

Rink, Bradley and Grobler, Lisa. (2021) Connection, Place, Transit: Airport Atmospherics and Meaning-Making at Cape Town International Airport. In: Rogerson C.M., Rogerson J.M. (Eds.), Urban Tourism in the Global South (pp. 113-128). Cham: Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-71547-2_5

Rink, Bradley. (2021). Liminality at-sea: Cruises to nowhere and their metaworlds, In Liminality in Tourism, Robert Bristow and Ian Jenkins (Eds.). London: Routledge.

Rink, Bradley. (2020). Queer bodies and the construction of tourism destination space. In C. Palmer & H. Andrews (Eds.), Tourism and Embodiment (pp. 41-53). London: Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/Tourism-and-Embodiment/Palmer-Andrews/p/book/9781138573550

Rink, Bradley. (2020). Enclaves and quartering in urban South Africa. In R. Massey & A. Gunter (Eds.), Urban Geography in South Africa - Perspectives and Theory (pp. 75-84) Cham: Springer Nature.

Rink, Bradley. (2020). Cruising nowhere: A South African contribution to cruise tourism. In J. Rogerson & G. Visser (Eds.), New directions in South African tourism geographies (pp. 249-266) Cham: Springer Nature.

Rink, Bradley (2019 Measuring learning for the masses: Assessment strategies for large classes. In H. Walkington, J. Hill & S. Dyer (Eds.), The Handbook of Teaching and Learning in Geography. Edward Elgar Publishers.

Rink, Bradley. (2019). Place ballet in a South African minibus taxi rank. In Agbiboa, D. (ed) Transport, Transgressionand Politics in African Cities: The Rhythm of Chaos, London: Routledge, 81-98.

Rink, Bradley. (2019). Conspicuous Queer Consumption: Emulation and Honour in the Pink Map. In Posel D. & Van Wyk I. (Eds.), Conspicuous Consumption in Africa (pp. 183-199). Johannesburg: Wits University Press.

Rink, Bradley. (2017). Sojourn to the dark continent: Landscape and affect in an African mobility experience. In Doerr, N. and Taieb, H. (eds) The Romance of Study and Volunteering Abroad: Affect in the Experience of Border-Crossing. Oxford: Berghahn Books, 93-113.

Rink, Bradley. (2013). Que(e)rying Cape Town: Touring Africa’s gay capital with the Pink Map. In Sarmento, J. and Brito-Henriques, E. (eds) Tourism in the global south: heritages,identities and development. Lisbon: Centre for Geographical Studies, 65-90.

Other Publications

Sarmento, J., Rink, B. (2024). Africa Tourism. In: Jafari, J., Xiao, H. (eds) Encyclopedia of Tourism. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-01669-6_230-5

Rink, Bradley. (2022). ‘Tourist mobilities and climate change’, in J. Saarinen, J. Fitchett, and G. Hoogendoorn (Eds), Climate Change and Tourism in Southern Africa (pp. 117-119). Abingdon: Routledge.

Sarmento, João and Rink, Bradley. (2022). Africa Tourism. In: Jafari, J., Xiao, H. (eds) Encyclopedia of Tourism. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-01669-6_230-4

Rink, Bradley. (2022). Seeing tourism landscapes: Teaching tourism at the confluence of theory and practice. In Joppe, M., Edelheim, J. & Flaherty, J. (Eds), Teaching Tourism: Innovative, values-based learning experiences for transformative practices. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishers.

Rink, Bradley. (2019). Mobility, moorings, frictions and fixities: Relational geographies and international higher education. CAPA Occasional Publication 8: 145-153.

Sarmento, João and Rink, Bradley (2015). ‘Africa, tourism’, In Jafari, J. and Xiao, H. (eds), Springer Encyclopedia of Tourism, Springer, DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-01669-6_230-3

Book Reviews

Rink, Bradley (2023) Review Essay, They Eat Our Sweat: Transport Labor, Corruption, and Everyday Survival in Urban Nigeria and Mobility, Mobilization, and Counter/Insurgency: The Routes of Terror in an African Context, The AAG Review of Books, 11:3, 36-39, https://doi.org/10.1080/2325548X.2023.2208299

Rink, Bradley. (2015). [Review of the book Migrant Women of Johannesburg: Life in an in-between city, by Caroline Kihato]. Refuge: Canada's Journal on Refugees, 31(2): 97-98.

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