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Politics, centralisation and service delivery in urban Zimbabwe
(Taylor & Francis, 2018)
The politics of urban control has revolved around centralisation since independence in 1980. However, such politics became more pronounced after 2000 owing to the rise of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) ...
Building a transformative agenda for accountability in SRHR: Lessons learned from SRHR and accountability literatures
(Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters, 2019)
Global strategies and commitments for sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) underscore the need to strengthen rights-based accountability processes. Yet there are gaps between these ambitious SRHR rights frameworks ...
Politics and the practice of planning: the case of Zimbabwean cities
(Elsevier, 2016)
Planning is intrinsically a political process. This paper explores how the practice and profession of planning has been affected by politics. Available evidence in Zimbabwe shows that planning is problematized by unsettled ...
Semiotic signature of transformation in a diachronic corpus of a South African political party
(Benjamins, 2019)
Corpus analysis has become established as an approach to the study of language
description or for applied pursuits in language teaching, terminology, and so on.
However, because of the social indexicalities of language ...
Gender, politics and sugarcane commercialisation in Tanzania
(Taylor & Francis Group, 2019)
This article explores relationships between state, corporate capital and local stakeholders in the political economy of sugarcane from a gender perspective. The findings, based on empirical research at the site of Tanzania’s ...
A hip-hopera in Cape Town: The aesthetics, and politics of performing ‘Afrikaaps’
(Taylor & Francis, 2017)
This paper looks into the aesthetics and politics of the ‘hip-hopera’ Afrikaaps. Afrikaaps was produced in 2010 by a group of musicians and spoken-word artists from Cape Town and the rural Western Cape Province of South ...
Narratives of scarcity: Framing the global land rush
(Elsevier, 2019)
Global resource scarcity has become a central policy concern, with predictions of rising populations, naturalresource depletion and hunger. The narratives of scarcity that arise as a result justify actions to harness ...
Power in action: Democracy, citizenship and social justice by Steven Friedman
(2019)
Steven Friedman has long been one of South Africa’s premier public intellectuals, making invaluable
and thoughtful contributions on the political issues of the day. In Power in Action, he zooms out from
everyday issues ...
Un/making difference through performance and mediation in contemporary Africa
(Taylor & Francis, 2017)
This special issue of the Journal of African Cultural Studies grew out of a panel we organized at the European Conference on African Studies in Lisbon in June 2013. Our starting point was the observation of a massive revival ...
The idea of a new Zimbabwe post- Mugabe
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2020)
Zimbabwe has gone through deep political, economic and social challenges for close to three decades. Once known as the shining light of
Africa, Zimbabwe is now often known for dominating international headlines for the ...