Everyday Crisis-Living in Contemporary Zimbabwe

Herausgeber: Helliker, Kirk; Chiweshe, Manase Kudzai; Bhatasara, Sandra

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Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the everyday lives of ordinary Zimbabweans in the context of national crises in post-2000 Zimbabwe.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 196
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Februar 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 155mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9780367863104
• ISBN-10: 0367863103
• Artikelnr.: 60353207

Autorenporträt

Kirk Helliker is Research Professor and Head of the Unit of Zimbabwean Studies in the Department of Sociology at Rhodes University, South Africa. He supervises a large number of Zimbabwean PhD students, and publishes primarily on livelihoods, land struggles and civil society in Zimbabwe. Dr. Sandra Bhatasara is a Senior Lecturer in the Sociology Department at the University of Zimbabwe and Research Associate in the Department of Sociology at Rhodes University. Her research focuses on intersectional studies of gender, agrarian issues, environment and social dimensions of climate change. Manase Kudzai Chiweshe is Senior Lecturer in the Sociology Department at the University of Zimbabwe. He is also Research Associate, Department of Sociology, Rhodes University, South Africa. His research resolves around everyday life in African spaces.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Everyday crisis-living in Zimbabwe Part 1: Urban and rural lives
2. Accountability of Bulawayo's urban council: service delivery and
civic activism challenges 3. Mistrust and despondency: fractured
relations between residents and council in Glenview, Harare 4.
Climate change adaptation by Chivi farmers 5. A2 fast-track Lowveld
sugar cane farms: lives of farmers and farm labourers Part 2: Men,
women and HIV 6. Caught between a rock and a hard place: girl-child
marriage as a safety net in Mabvuku, Harare 7. Understanding forms of
loyalty to Mugabe 8. Sex, HIV and medically circumcised males: a
study in Harare 9. HIV therapy in Chivanhu, Masvingo district 10.
Married women and development in Gwanda Part 3: Along and beyond the
border 11. Lived experiences of cross-border traders: the case of
Kariba 12. Trust and the Zimbabwean diaspora: a case study of the
West Midlands County, England 13. Zimbabweans at foreign
universities: the case of Rhodes University 14. Zimbabwean traders in
South Africa