Urban Displacement and Resettlement in Zimbabwe: The Paradoxes of Propertied Citizenship
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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.
Original language | English |
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Journal | African Studies Review |
Volume | 60 |
Issue number | 3 |
Pages (from-to) | 81-104 |
Number of pages | 24 |
ISSN | 0002-0206 |
Publication status | Published - Dec 2017 |
- Faculty of Theology - urban displacement, urban resettlement, citzenship, zimbabwe
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