Harare: from a European settler-colonial 'sunshine city' to a 'zhing-zhong' African city
In: International development planning review: IDPR, Band 39, Heft 4, S. 375-398
ISSN: 1478-3401
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In: International development planning review: IDPR, Band 39, Heft 4, S. 375-398
ISSN: 1478-3401
In: International journal of urban and regional research, Band 41, Heft 2, S. 213-234
ISSN: 1468-2427
AbstractDavid Harvey's notion of 'accumulation by dispossession' has inspired a wide range of studies in different places. But it has hardly registered in the area of urban land grabbing in Africa and what the role of local capital has been in these processes. In this article, I use archival data, field observations and insights from key informant interviews in Harare to examine how the 1990s neoliberalism and the post‐1999 Zimbabwe crisis created new opportunities for accumulation of wealth through the irregular and fraudulent transfer of public urban land into private hands, including those of reputable corporate institutions. I provide a summary of the literature on contemporary land grabbing, raising questions about and providing new insights for a comparative understanding of the transformative role and nature of the state, postcolonial African cities, anti‐capitalist struggles, and the status and meaning of planning in different settings.
Zimbabwe's 2012 census report suggests that notable de-urbanisation occurred between 2002 and 2012. Some external commentators have cited urban–rural migration and the Fast Track Land Reform Programme – jambanja – initiated in 2000 as the principal drivers of this phenomenon. During field research in the second half of 2016, I found that ordinary citizens and key informants – in politics, government and civil society – expressed bewilderment at suggestions that the country is de-urbanising. While the populations of the large cities appear to be growing slowly, if at all, unadjusted boundaries mean that the demographic growth associated with urban sprawl has not been captured. In-depth analysis also reveals rapid population growth in peri-urban areas that should be designated as urban, and in small and intermediate urban settlements. Overestimation of the urban populations, and the rate at which urbanisation levels are increasing in African countries, is a consistent feature of international organisation reports.1 But for Zimbabwe, underestimation seems to have occurred. While the rate of urbanisation may have slowed, the extent of the slowdown appears exaggerated and it is likely to be reversed when boundary changes are made. It is not inconceivable that Zimbabwe could still be majority urban by 2050.
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In: Habitat international: a journal for the study of human settlements, Band 43, S. 152-162
In: Commonwealth and comparative politics, Band 50, Heft 2, S. 226-252
ISSN: 1743-9094
In: Commonwealth & comparative politics, Band 50, Heft 2, S. 226-253
In: African affairs: the journal of the Royal African Society, Band 108, Heft 430, S. 152-153
ISSN: 0001-9909
In: African affairs: the journal of the Royal African Society, Band 108, Heft 432, S. 503-504
ISSN: 0001-9909
In: The round table: the Commonwealth journal of international affairs, Band 95, Heft 384, S. 201-218
ISSN: 1474-029X
In: Development in practice, Band 9, Heft 3, S. 316-322
ISSN: 1364-9213
In: Development Southern Africa, Band 12, Heft 1, S. 75-86
ISSN: 1470-3637
In: World development perspectives, Band 27, S. 100452
ISSN: 2452-2929
In: Progress in development studies, Band 2, Heft 2, S. 113-131
ISSN: 1477-027X
This paper reviews the current state of literature on peri-urban research in sub-Saharan Africa. This research has been led by multi-lateral and bilateral development agencies that have sought to find a role in urban development. The review finds that the donor-driven research has remained largely descriptive. It has neither emphasized nor theorized the rapid and contentious peri-urban transformations associated with globalization. The paper identifies these contradictory transformations and then reviews a range of social development theories, suggesting to what extent they are useful to a meaningful engagement with these contradictions. It highlights in particular the potential role of structuration theory.
In: Third world planning review: TWPR, Band 18, Heft 1, S. 107
ISSN: 0142-7849
In: International development planning review: IDPR, Band 38, Heft 1, S. 95-103
ISSN: 1478-3401