Urban Displacement and Resettlement in Zimbabwe: The Paradoxes of Propertied Citizenship
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Urban Displacement and Resettlement in Zimbabwe: The Paradoxes of Propertied Citizenship. / Hammar, Amanda.
I: African Studies Review, Bind 60, Nr. 3, 12.2017, s. 81-104.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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T1 - Urban Displacement and Resettlement in Zimbabwe: The Paradoxes of Propertied Citizenship
AU - Hammar, Amanda
PY - 2017/12
Y1 - 2017/12
N2 - This article examines what urban displacement and resettlement can reveal about the nature of, and co-constitutive relationships among, property, authority, and citizenship. It focuses on an unusual case in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, where long-term illegal squatters living under constant threat of violent displacement by various local and national authorities were formally resettled by the Bulawayo City Council on peri-urban plots with houses. What surfaces are some of the paradoxes of propertied citizenship and of attaining seemingly “proper” lives in conditions of sustained marginality, a result that is not entirely unexpected when impoverished squatters are resettled far outside the frame of the city and its possibilities.
AB - This article examines what urban displacement and resettlement can reveal about the nature of, and co-constitutive relationships among, property, authority, and citizenship. It focuses on an unusual case in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, where long-term illegal squatters living under constant threat of violent displacement by various local and national authorities were formally resettled by the Bulawayo City Council on peri-urban plots with houses. What surfaces are some of the paradoxes of propertied citizenship and of attaining seemingly “proper” lives in conditions of sustained marginality, a result that is not entirely unexpected when impoverished squatters are resettled far outside the frame of the city and its possibilities.
KW - Faculty of Theology
KW - urban displacement
KW - urban resettlement
KW - citzenship
KW - zimbabwe
M3 - Journal article
VL - 60
SP - 81
EP - 104
JO - African Studies Review
JF - African Studies Review
SN - 0002-0206
IS - 3
ER -
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