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Circular migration in Zimbabwe & contemporary sub-Saharan Africa
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ISBN: 1847010237 9781847010230 9781846159169 9786613584373 1846159164 1280489146 Year: 2010 Publisher: Suffolk Boydell & Brewer

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Circular migration, whereby rural migrants do not remain permanently in town, has particular significance in the academic literature on development and urbanization in Africa, often having negative connotations in southern Africanist studies due to its links with an iniquitous migrant labour system. Literature on other African regions often views circular migration more positively. This book reviews the current evidence about circular migration and urbanization in sub-Saharan Africa. The author challenges the dominant view that rural-urban migration continues unabated and shows that circular migration has continued and has adapted, with faster out-migration in the face of declining urban economic opportunities. The empirical core of the book illustrates these trends through a detailed examination of the case of Zimbabwe based on the author's longstanding research on Harare. The political and economic changes in Zimbabwe since the 1980s transformed Harare from one of the best African cities to live in over this period to one of the worst. Harare citizens' livelihoods exemplify, in microcosm, the central theme of the book: the re-invention of circulation and rural-urban links in response to economic change. Deborah Potts is a Senior Lecturer in the Geography Department of King's College London. She works in the broad research field of urbanization and migration in sub-Saharan Africa, particularly southern Africa and has conducted research on these themes in Harare in Zimbabwe since 1985. South Africa: University of Cape Town Press (pbk).


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The urban roots of democracy and political violence in Zimbabwe : Harare and Highfield, 1940-1964
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ISBN: 1283011301 9786613011305 1580467520 1580462812 1580463630 Year: 2008 Publisher: Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press,

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'The Urban Roots of Democracy and Political Violence in Zimbabwe' details a democratic tradition developed in the 1940s and 1950s, and a movement that would fall victim to an increasingly elitist and divisive political culture by the 1960s. Providing biographical sketches of key personalities within the genealogy of nationalist politics, Timothy Scarnecchia weaves an intricate narrative that traces the trajectories of earlier democratic traditions in Zimbabwe, including women's political movements, township organizations, and trade unions. This work suggests that intense rivalries for control of the nationalist leadership after 1960, the 'sell-out' politics of that period, and Cold War funding for rival groups contributed to a unique political impasse, ultimately resulting in the largely autocratic and violent political state today. The author further proposes that this recourse to political violence, 'top-down' nationalism, and the abandonment of urban democratic traditions are all hallmarks of a particular type of nationalism equally unsustainable in Zimbabwe then as it is now. Timothy Scarnecchia is assistant professor of African history at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio.

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Democracy --- Political violence --- Political culture --- Culture --- Political science --- Violence --- Political crimes and offenses --- Terrorism --- Self-government --- Equality --- Representative government and representation --- Republics --- History. --- Mzingeli, Charles. --- Zimbabwe --- Harare (Zimbabwe) --- Highfield (Zimbabwe) --- Highfield, Southern Rhodesia --- Highfield (Southern Rhodesia) --- City of Harare (Zimbabwe) --- Горад Харарэ (Zimbabwe) --- Horad Khararė (Zimbabwe) --- Харарэ (Zimbabwe) --- Khararė (Zimbabwe) --- Хараре (Zimbabwe) --- Χαράρε (Zimbabwe) --- Charare (Zimbabwe) --- Harareo (Zimbabwe) --- IHarara (Zimbabwe) --- הארארה (Zimbabwe) --- Harareh (Zimbabwe) --- Arare (Zimbabwe) --- Hararensis Urbs (Zimbabwe) --- ハラレ (Zimbabwe) --- Xarare (Zimbabwe) --- הארארע (Zimbabwe) --- 哈拉雷 (Zimbabwe) --- Halalei (Zimbabwe) --- Salisbury (Zimbabwe) --- Politics and government --- Politics and government. --- Democracy. --- Political culture. --- Political violence. --- Zimbabwe. --- Southern Rhodesia --- An tSiombáib --- Cimbabue --- Dēmokratia tēs Zimpampoue --- Government of Zimbabwe --- GOZ (Zimbabwe) --- Jinbabue --- Poblachd Shiombabue --- Repubblica dello Zimbabwe --- Republic of Zimbabwe --- República de Zimbabue --- Republika Zimbabve --- Simbabve --- Simbabwe --- Siombabue --- Yn Çhimbabwe --- Zimbabhue --- Zimbabua --- Zimbabue --- Zimbabvah --- Zimbabve --- Zimbabṿeh --- Zimbabves Republika --- Zīmbābvih --- Zimbabvo --- Zimbabweh --- Zimpampoue --- Ζιμπάμπουε --- Δημοκρατία της Ζιμπάμπουε --- Република Зимбабве --- Зимбабуе --- Зимбабве --- Зімбабве --- זימבבואה --- זימבבווה --- زيمبابوه --- ジンバブエ --- African Politics. --- Political Violence. --- Post-Apartheid Debate. --- Traditional Authority. --- Zimbabwean Nationalism.

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