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Everyday Crisis-Living in Contemporary Zimbabwe book cover

1st Edition

Everyday Crisis-Living in Contemporary Zimbabwe

Edited By Kirk Helliker, Sandra Bhatasara, Manase Kudzai Chiweshe Copyright 2021
208 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge
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This book examines the everyday lives of ordinary Zimbabweans in the context of national crises in post-2000 Zimbabwe. Throughout the literature of Zimbabwean studies, a consideration of everyday lives has been limited to informal trading and rarely applied as an analytical framework, despite the importance of understanding crisis-living with reference to the specific character of national... Read more

    1. Everyday crisis-living in Zimbabwe

    Kirk Helliker, Manase Kudzai Chiweshe, Sandra Bhatasara and Gift Mwonzora

    Part 1: Urban and rural lives

    2. Accountability of Bulawayo's urban council: service delivery and civic activism challenges

    Delta Sivalo

    3. Mistrust and despondency: fractured relations between residents and council in Glenview, Harare

    Tafadzwa Sachikonye

    4. Climate change adaptation by Chivi farmers

    Elinah Nciizah

    5. A2 fast-track Lowveld sugar cane farms: lives of farmers and farm labourers

    Kudakwashe Rejoice Chingono

    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

    Shamiso C. Madzivire and Wiseman Masunda

    7. Understanding forms of loyalty to Mugabe

    Rufaro C.A. Manzira

    8. Sex, HIV and medically circumcised males: a study in Harare

    Paidashe Chamuka

    9. HIV therapy in Chivanhu, Masvingo district

    Tendai Wapinduka

    10. Married women and development in Gwanda

    Patience Sibanda

    Part 3: Along and beyond the border

    11. Lived experiences of cross-border traders: the case of Kariba

    Joshua Matanzima

    12. Trust and the Zimbabwean diaspora: a case study of the West Midlands County, England

    Felix Tombindo and Simbarashe Gukurume

    13. Zimbabweans at foreign universities: the case of Rhodes University

    Andile Daki

    14. Zimbabwean traders in South Africa

    Tariro Henrietta Musiyandaka

Biography

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.

 

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