Pub Date : 2024-02-14DOI: 10.1007/s12132-024-09509-2
C. Hungwe, Patience Chadambuka, N. Muridzo, M. Maseko, Z. E. Mugari, Nyevero Maruzani, Decent Gaura, Kenneth Chinovumburuka Maregere
{"title":"Effects of COVID-19 on the Livelihoods of Women with Disabilities in Zimbabwe: A Study of Three Low-Income Areas in Harare Metropolitan Province","authors":"C. Hungwe, Patience Chadambuka, N. Muridzo, M. Maseko, Z. E. Mugari, Nyevero Maruzani, Decent Gaura, Kenneth Chinovumburuka Maregere","doi":"10.1007/s12132-024-09509-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12132-024-09509-2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35221,"journal":{"name":"Urban Forum","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2024-02-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139839149","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-02-10DOI: 10.1007/s12132-024-09508-3
N.S. Jacobs, Selna Cornelius, C. Claassen, C. Niesing, J. Cilliers, R. Burger
{"title":"Academic Knowledge on Quality of Life in Urban Africa: What Do We Know?","authors":"N.S. Jacobs, Selna Cornelius, C. Claassen, C. Niesing, J. Cilliers, R. Burger","doi":"10.1007/s12132-024-09508-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12132-024-09508-3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35221,"journal":{"name":"Urban Forum","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2024-02-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139786172","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-02-10DOI: 10.1007/s12132-024-09508-3
N.S. Jacobs, Selna Cornelius, C. Claassen, C. Niesing, J. Cilliers, R. Burger
{"title":"Academic Knowledge on Quality of Life in Urban Africa: What Do We Know?","authors":"N.S. Jacobs, Selna Cornelius, C. Claassen, C. Niesing, J. Cilliers, R. Burger","doi":"10.1007/s12132-024-09508-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12132-024-09508-3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35221,"journal":{"name":"Urban Forum","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2024-02-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139845971","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-01-27DOI: 10.1007/s12132-024-09507-4
Abubakari Ahmed, Antje Bruns
{"title":"Energy Poverty and the Proliferation of Heterogeneous Infrastructure Configurations in Accra: Implications for Urban Energy Governance in African Cities","authors":"Abubakari Ahmed, Antje Bruns","doi":"10.1007/s12132-024-09507-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12132-024-09507-4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35221,"journal":{"name":"Urban Forum","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2024-01-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139592642","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-12-22DOI: 10.1007/s12132-023-09506-x
Shaheen Sewparsadh Thakur, Adrian Nel
{"title":"Alter-nation? Factions, Coalitions and Environmental Governance in the Context of Contested Post-apartheid Local State Democratisation","authors":"Shaheen Sewparsadh Thakur, Adrian Nel","doi":"10.1007/s12132-023-09506-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12132-023-09506-x","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35221,"journal":{"name":"Urban Forum","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-12-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138945314","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-12-11DOI: 10.1007/s12132-023-09505-y
Silvia M. Agostinho do Amaral
{"title":"Armed Conflict and Urbanization in Cabo Delgado, Mozambique: A Methodology for a Critical Inquiry","authors":"Silvia M. Agostinho do Amaral","doi":"10.1007/s12132-023-09505-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12132-023-09505-y","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35221,"journal":{"name":"Urban Forum","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-12-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138584293","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-11-23DOI: 10.1007/s12132-023-09504-z
J. Visagie, I. Turok, Andreas Scheba
{"title":"Social Housing and Upward Mobility in South Africa: an Assessment of Household Outcomes","authors":"J. Visagie, I. Turok, Andreas Scheba","doi":"10.1007/s12132-023-09504-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12132-023-09504-z","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35221,"journal":{"name":"Urban Forum","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-11-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139243791","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-10-02DOI: 10.1007/s12132-023-09501-2
Njogu Morgan, Bradley Rink
Abstract Building on the notion that mobility plays a critical role in everyday urban life in Africa as elsewhere, this editorial provides an introduction to the special collection ‘The Past in Present African Urban Mobility Systems’. As we introduce the papers in this collection, we argue for an understanding of contemporary urban mobility systems that account for their historical roots. While historians of African transport have provided insights into the origins of mobility systems on the continent, we wish to animate the contemporary experience of those systems, advocating for a mobilities longue durée.
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Pub Date : 2023-09-29DOI: 10.1007/s12132-023-09503-0
Johannes Bhanye
Abstract Within the past few years, pandemics like HIV/AIDS, influenza, and SARS-CoV-2 have become common worldwide. The COVID-19 pandemic, which broke out recently, profoundly impacted the world. As part of containing this pandemic, lockdowns which put a moratorium on human mobility and associational life became a dominant measure. Yet these mobilities and associational life are the lifeblood of migrants and diaspora belonging. This paper examines the impacts of bans on associational life on migrants and, further, what migrants did to continue living in the absence of these associations during the COVID-19 pandemic. The paper is based on a case study of Lydiate informal settlement in Zimbabwe, where Malawian migrants have established an ethnic enclave to shield themselves from the precarity and injustices of foreign lands. Through convivial and digital ethnographic fieldwork, the paper revealed that bans on associational life disrupted community engagements and binding religious associational life, increased targeted violence and “othering,” and perpetuated stigma and discrimination and loss of ties with family and fictive kin. However, migrants restructured their associational life by adopting agile and new forms of belonging to get by, including relocating religious shrines to more secretive places or conducting religious ceremonies in the dark, drinking beer within the perimeter of the settlement, using of WhatsApp and instant messaging and WhatsApp groups for important community updates, and collective resistance. I termed these strategies “nimble forms of sociality and belonging,” meaning there are lithe mechanisms that migrants employ to further their sociality even when they are restricted.
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Pub Date : 2023-09-27DOI: 10.1007/s12132-023-09502-1
C. J. Schenck, D. Blaauw, N. Theodore, R. Niyobuhungiro
Abstract Faced with extraordinarily high unemployment, the long-term unemployed in South Africa increasingly have been securing livelihoods outside of standard waged work. Many are establishing unregistered, micro-enterprises that provide low-cost goods and services to low-income households. This paper presents the results of an exploratory study of unregistered (informal) second-hand tyre dealers in three South African cities to better assess their role in urban economies. Interviews with informal tyre dealers were conducted to understand how their businesses are positioned along the waste tyre value chain, their prospects for generating employment, and their potential to contribute to product reuse and repurposing. By extending the useful lives of tyres, informal dealerships can be analysed through a circular economy framework that acknowledges their varied environmental, economic, and social benefits. Concerns, however, are raised about the unregulated sale of second-hand tyres, some of which are unsafe and pose risks for road users. This in turn gives rise to difficult trade-offs between on the one hand the economic and environmental benefits of informal tyre sales and road safety on the other.
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