The Translocal Geography of Lodging in Urban Zimbabwe
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This book will argue that lodging is a hugely ignored, largely invisible but critical sector of housing provision and economic contributor of burgeoning African cities. It further connects the rural and the urban, challenging traditional definitions of locationally-bound communities. Lodgers create micro, local and translocal communities and the lodging system offers livelihood strategies. Rather than engage in the dominant portrayal of rural-urban as binary, dichotomous space, we maintain that lodging represents and supports the translocal community and relational networks of the extended family as it seeks to maximize access to resources.
Miriam Grant is a professor Emeritus (Geography) in the Department of Community, Culture and Global Studies, and Graduate Dean Emeritus, UBC Okanagan. A social urban Geographer who obtained her PhD from Queen’s University, she was a faculty member in Geography at the University of Calgary for twenty years. There she also held the positions of Associate Dean, Graduate Studies and Associate Dean, Research (Faculty of Social Sciences, which became the Faculty of Arts). She then moved to UBCO to become Vice Provost and Dean, Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies (2011-2018).
Arja Vainio-Mattila began her career as a researcher at the University of Helsinki, completing her PhD in Geography at the University of Turku, Finland. Dr. Vainio-Mattila has held the positions of Director of the Centre for Global Studies at Huron University College, Dean of School of Arts and Social Sciences at Cape Breton University, and Provost, Vice-President Academic and Research at Nipissing University. She is currently the Provost, Vice-President Academic at Brock University.
This book will argue that lodging is a hugely ignored, largely invisible but critical sector of housing provision and economic contributor of burgeoning African cities. It further connects the rural and the urban, challenging traditional definitions of locationally-bound communities. Lodgers create micro, local and translocal communities and the lodging system offers livelihood strategies. Rather than engage in the dominant portrayal of rural-urban as binary, dichotomous space, we maintain that lodging represents and supports the translocal community and relational networks of the extended family as it seeks to maximize access to resources.
Argues that lodging is an invisible but critical sector of housing provision and economic contributor of African cities Connects the rural and the urban, challenging traditional definitions of locationally-bound communities It supports translocal community & relational networks of extended family as it seeks to maximize access to resources
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Miriam R. Grant
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Lodging lodgers and landlords/ladies gender urban development spatiality translocal migration Zimbabwe African urbanization secondary cities urban gender relations
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“Informal rental is a significant, if too often neglected, part of urban housing markets in low-income countries, and especially so in sub-Saharan African secondary cities. This book fills an important gap by focusing on the perspectives of both owners and lodgers and presents an innovative conceptual framework of lodging that combines a multidimensional understanding of space, translocality, gender relations and community dynamics.” (Professor Cecilia Tacoli, Senior Associate, International Institute for Environment and Development)
“The locus of Africa’s dramatic urban transition is in its small towns and secondary cities, where ordinary people negotiate their lives and build their place in an unstable world. Grant and Vainio-Mattila’s clear and insightful accounts of Gweru provide the texture so often missing from broad-brush accounts of urbanization.” (Susan Parnell, Professor, University of Bristol and Emeritus Professor, University of Cape Town)
“The Translocal Geography of Lodging in urban Zimbabwe is an insightful book that examines with a profound sensitivity the practice of lodging within the African urban housing market. Through applying translocal lenses and a gender perspective, the book offers a compelling study that vividly portrays the lodging landscape in Gweru, a secondary city in Zimbabwe. It presents new perspectives and valuable insights that have the potential to enrich theoretical and policy understandings about lodging in Africa’s secondary cities.” (Daniel Tevera, Extraordinary Professor, Department of Geography, Environmental Studies & Tourism, University of the Western Cape)
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