Housing in Zimbabwe: Stewardship and Peri-Urbanity in Contemporary Africa, Innocent Chirisa
Автор: Fisher Название: Urban Environmental Stewardship and Civic Engagement ISBN: 1138689556 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138689558 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 8573.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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Once considered the antithesis of a verdant and vibrant ecosystem, cities are now being hailed as highly efficient and complex social ecological systems. Emerging from the streets of the post-industrial city are well-tended community gardens, rooftop farms and other viable habitats capable of supporting native flora and fauna. At the forefront of this transformation are the citizens living in the cities themselves. As people around the world increasingly relocate to urban areas, this book discusses how they engage in urban stewardship and what civic participation in the environment means for democracy.
Drawing on data collected through a two-year study of volunteer stewards who planted trees as part of the MillionTreesNYC initiative in the United States, this book examines how projects like this can make a difference to the social fabric of a city. It analyses quantitative survey data along with qualitative interview data that enables the volunteers to share their personal stories and motivations for participating, revealing the strong link between environmental stewardship and civic engagement.
As city governments in developed countries are investing more and more in green infrastructure campaigns to change the urban landscape, this book sheds light on the social importance of these initiatives and shows how individuals' efforts to reshape their cities serve to strengthen democracy. It draws out lessons that are highly applicable to global cities and policies on sustainability and civic engagement.
Автор: Jenkins Paul Название: Urbanization, Urbanism, and Urbanity in an African City ISBN: 1137380160 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137380166 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 12577.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Urbanization in sub-Saharan Africa has historic roots, and though it has accelerated in recent decades, it retains distinctive forms. This book explores sub-Saharan urbanism through a detailed and wide-ranging study of Maputo, Mozambique, covering physical and socio-economic factors as well as an ethnographic inquiry into cultural attitudes.
Описание: Highlighting an emergent scholarship amongst young black scholars in Zimbabwe, and providing an understanding of how people and communities respond to socio-economic challenges, this book is an important read for scholars of African political economy, Southern African Studies and livelihoods.
Автор: Mlambo Название: A History of Zimbabwe ISBN: 110768479X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107684799 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 4118.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: There is currently no single-volume history of Zimbabwe that provides detailed coverage of the country`s experience from pre-colonial times to the present. This book examines Zimbabwe`s pre-colonial, colonial and postcolonial social, economic and political history and relates historical factors and trends to more recent developments in the country.
Development has remained elusive in Africa. Through theoretical contributions and case studies focusing on Southern Africa’s former white settler states, South Africa and Zimbabwe, this volume responds to the current need to rethink (and unthink) development in the region. The authors explore how Africa can adapt Western development models suited to its political, economic, social and cultural circumstances, while rejecting development practices and discourses based on exploitative capitalist and colonial tendencies. Beyond the legacies of colonialism, the volume also explores other factors impacting development, including regional politics, corruption, poor policies on empowerment and indigenization, and socio-economic and cultural barriers.
Автор: Tendi Blessing-Miles Название: Army and Politics in Zimbabwe ISBN: 1108472893 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108472890 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 16790.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: An essential record of one of the most controversial figures within the history of African liberation politics, and an important figure in Robert Mugabe`s ruling ZANU PF party, this biography of General Solomon Mujuru is based on unparalleled primary interviews with informants in the army, intelligence services, police and ZANU PF elites.
When the southern African country of Rhodesia was reborn as Zimbabwe in 1980, democracy advocates celebrated the defeat of a white supremacist regime and the end of colonial rule. Zimbabwean crowds cheered their new prime minister, freedom fighter Robert Mugabe, with little idea of the misery he would bring them. Under his leadership for the next 30 years, Zimbabwe slid from self-sufficiency into poverty and astronomical inflation. The government once praised for its magnanimity and ethnic tolerance was denounced by leaders like South African Nobel Prize-winner Desmond Tutu. Millions of refugees fled the country. How did the heroic Mugabe become a hated autocrat, and why were so many outside of Zimbabwe blind to his bloody misdeeds for so long? In A Predictable Tragedy: Robert Mugabe and the Collapse of Zimbabwe Daniel Compagnon reveals that while the conditions and perceptions of Zimbabwe had changed, its leader had not. From the beginning of his political career, Mugabe was a cold tactician with no regard for human rights. Through eyewitness accounts and unflinching analysis, Compagnon describes how Mugabe and the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) built a one-party state under an ideological cloak of antiimperialism. To maintain absolute authority, Mugabe undermined one-time ally Joshua Nkomo, terrorized dissenters, stoked the fires of tribalism, covered up the massacre of thousands in Matabeleland, and siphoned off public money to his minions—all well before the late 1990s, when his attempts at radical land redistribution finally drew negative international attention. A Predictable Tragedy vividly captures the neopatrimonial and authoritarian nature of Mugabe's rule that shattered Zimbabwe's early promises of democracy and offers lessons critical to understanding Africa's predicament and its prospects for the future.
Автор: Mlambo Название: A History of Zimbabwe ISBN: 1107021707 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107021709 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 12355.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: There is currently no single-volume history of Zimbabwe that provides detailed coverage of the country`s experience from pre-colonial times to the present. This book examines Zimbabwe`s pre-colonial, colonial and postcolonial social, economic and political history and relates historical factors and trends to more recent developments in the country.
Автор: Togarasei Название: Aspects of Pentecostal Christianity in Zimbabwe ISBN: 3319785648 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783319785646 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 12577.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Introduction (Lovemore Togarasei ).- Part I: History.- Chapter 1: The religions of Zimbabwe in their plurality (Ezra Chitando).- Chapter 2: The History of Pentecostal Christianity in Zimbabwe (Lovemore Togarasei).- Chapter 3: The Primacy of the Spirit: The Case of African Initiated Churches as Pentecostals (Masiiwa Ragies Gunda).- Chapter 4: Pentecostalism and Charismatism in the Roman Catholic Church's Archdiocese of Harare in Zimbabwe: a Critical Analysis (Joachim Kwaramba).- Part II: Doctrine.- Chapter 5: Health and Wealth in Zimbabwean Pentecostal Doctrine: the case of the Zimbabwe Assemblies of God Africa (ZAOGA) (Kudzai Biri).- Chapter 6: All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues" (Acts 2:4) (Francis Machingura).- Chapter 7: Pentecostal Gospel of Prosperity in Zimbabwe: Understanding the divisive nature of Mega-church Superstar Men of God (Prophets), (Masiiwa Ragies Gunda).- Chapter 8: The Old Testament as a source book for the Pentecostal Gospel of Prosperity (Masiiwa Ragies Gunda).- Part III: Socio-Political and Economic Relevance.- Chapter 9: Pastors, Preachers and Wives: A critical reflection on the role of Pentecostalism in women empowerment in Zimbabwe (Tapiwa Praise Mapuranga). Chapter 10: Health and well-being in Zimbabwe's Pentecostal Churches (Tinoonga Shanduka).- Chapter 11: Pentecostal churches: money making machines or purveyors of socio-economic growth? (Lovemore Togarasei). Chapter 12: Pentecostal Churches and Zimbabwean Politics: Some Reflections, (Mervis Zungura).- Part IV: Theoretical and Methodological Issues.- Chapter 13: Pentecostal Christianity and Religious Pluralism: A Case study of ZAOGA and Shona Traditional Religion (Nisbert T. Taringa).- Chapter 14: Biblical Interpretation in Pentecostal Christianity (Lovemore Togarasei).- Chapter 15: The Pentecostal Kairos: Methodological and Theoretical Implications (Musa W. Dube).
Автор: Suzuki Yuka Название: The Nature of Whiteness: Race, Animals, and Nation in Zimbabwe ISBN: 0295999543 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780295999548 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 4389.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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The Nature of Whiteness explores the intertwining of race and nature in postindependence Zimbabwe. Nature and environment have played prominent roles in white Zimbabwean identity, and when the political tide turned against white farmers after independence, nature was the most powerful resource they had at their disposal. In the 1970s, "Mlilo," a private conservancy sharing boundaries with Hwange National Park, became the first site in Zimbabwe to experiment with "wildlife production," and by the 1990s, wildlife tourism had become one of the most lucrative industries in the country. Mlilo attained international notoriety in 2015 as the place where Cecil the Lion was killed by a trophy hunter.
Yuka Suzuki provides a balanced study of whiteness, the conservation of nature, and contested belonging in twenty-first-century southern Africa. The Nature of Whiteness is a fascinating account of human-animal relations and the interplay among categories of race and nature in this embattled landscape.
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