T Tom
Biographic Data
| ID | 49652 |
|---|---|
| NAME | T Tom |
| GIVEN NAMES | T |
| FAMILY NAME | Tom |
| SIGNATURE | TOM T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of South Africa |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4732-7110 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The right to be rural
Social Policy, Development and Democracy in Africa
Social policy, development and democracy in Africa are dominated by externally engineered and controlled philosophies. This has resulted in policy regimes and architecture that fail to sustainably improve the wellbeing of the continent. The article is conceptual and utilises interpretive methodology, and Transformative Social Policy to draw insights from Thandika Mkandawire's philosophy on social policy, development and democracy. The prime argum…
Decades of Land and Agrarian Reform in Zimbabwe
Land is an enabler and guarantor of people’s socioeconomic wellbeing. As Africa grapples with enduring multiple human development challenges, though not the sole pathway nor a panacea, reforming land tenure, agrarian structures, and agrarian relations has immense capacity to address the structural causes of poverty, inequality and marginalisation. Yet, the corpus of scholarly literature that consciously centres the transformative social policy le…
Accessibility, security, and associated policy issues for people with disabilities in Zimbabwe’s urban areas
Accessibility and security issues pertaining to people with disabilities in Zimbabwe's urban areas have so far received limited priority in scholarship and social policy. This is a major deviation from the prerequisites for disability inclusion, rights-based governance and development, and transformative social policy. Using qualitative research methodology, the paper addresses this compelling lacuna by exploring selected germane issues affecting…
Young people’s agency in Zimbabwe’s precarious informal sector
In Zimbabwe’s ‘new’ dispensation, young people’s agency pertaining to the precarious informal sector and livelihoods has so far received limited attention in youth research, youth literature and social policy of the Global South. This article seeks to reduce lacunae in this regard by exploring their lived experiences, situated meanings and agency, basing on Harare City as the heuristic case study. Against prolonged socioeconomic and political cri…
Zimbabwe’s fast-track land reform at 20
This article interrogates disability inclusion two decades after Zimbabwe’s fast-tracked land reform and the associated policy pathways for improving the situation of people with disabilities in an agrarian context. Exploring the country’s land reform through disability inclusion lenses is largely missing in literature and policy. Using disability inclusion and interpretivism as the evaluative conceptual framing and heuristic research approach in…
The Village Database
Chinese American genealogy sources exist in both America and China, but finding them in China can be challenging. In America, an unintended consequence of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 was the generation of voluminous government records that now benefit research on Chinese Americans by providing and confirming the names of people, of villages written in Chinese characters and romanized in English, and sometimes, remarkable photographs. In Chi…
Youth and Citizenship Rights After Zimbabwe’s Land Reform
Covid-19, lockdown and peasants in Zimbabwe
The exploration of COVID-19 in Zimbabwe and the consequent responses have blind spots in relation to peasant communities. Despite the peasantry featuring in Zimbabwe's agrarian reform literature, such literature is lacking when it comes to the interrogation of how this diverse and sometimes less recognised group responded to the novel virus. The article explores peasant life in a time of COVID-19 and lockdown in Zimbabwe, paying special attention…
Covid-19, Lockdown and the Family in Zimbabwe
Globally, COVID-19 has caused disruption to all social institutions and sectors of the economy. Projections are that the pandemic is likely to deepen hardships already experienced by various groups in society, especially the vulnerable. As COVID-19 continues to unfold and spread, it has become apparent that the virus and its associated problems are more than biomedical issues. Against a backdrop where researchers and practitioners from public hea…
Covid-19, lockdown and peasants in Zimbabwe
The exploration of COVID-19 in Zimbabwe and the consequent responses have blind spots in relation to peasant communities. Despite the peasantry featuring in Zimbabwe's agrarian reform literature, such literature is lacking when it comes to the interrogation of how this diverse and sometimes less recognised group responded to the novel virus. The article explores peasant life in a time of COVID-19 and lockdown in Zimbabwe, paying special attention…
Young people’s agency in Zimbabwe’s precarious informal sector
In Zimbabwe’s ‘new’ dispensation, young people’s agency pertaining to the precarious informal sector and livelihoods has so far received limited attention in youth research, youth literature and social policy of the Global South. This article seeks to reduce lacunae in this regard by exploring their lived experiences, situated meanings and agency, basing on Harare City as the heuristic case study. Against prolonged socioeconomic and political cri…
The right to be rural
Social Policy, Development and Democracy in Africa
Social policy, development and democracy in Africa are dominated by externally engineered and controlled philosophies. This has resulted in policy regimes and architecture that fail to sustainably improve the wellbeing of the continent. The article is conceptual and utilises interpretive methodology, and Transformative Social Policy to draw insights from Thandika Mkandawire's philosophy on social policy, development and democracy. The prime argum…
Accessibility, security, and associated policy issues for people with disabilities in Zimbabwe’s urban areas
Accessibility and security issues pertaining to people with disabilities in Zimbabwe's urban areas have so far received limited priority in scholarship and social policy. This is a major deviation from the prerequisites for disability inclusion, rights-based governance and development, and transformative social policy. Using qualitative research methodology, the paper addresses this compelling lacuna by exploring selected germane issues affecting…
Covid-19, Lockdown and the Family in Zimbabwe
Globally, COVID-19 has caused disruption to all social institutions and sectors of the economy. Projections are that the pandemic is likely to deepen hardships already experienced by various groups in society, especially the vulnerable. As COVID-19 continues to unfold and spread, it has become apparent that the virus and its associated problems are more than biomedical issues. Against a backdrop where researchers and practitioners from public hea…
The Village Database
Chinese American genealogy sources exist in both America and China, but finding them in China can be challenging. In America, an unintended consequence of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 was the generation of voluminous government records that now benefit research on Chinese Americans by providing and confirming the names of people, of villages written in Chinese characters and romanized in English, and sometimes, remarkable photographs. In Chi…
Youth and Citizenship Rights After Zimbabwe’s Land Reform
Covid-19, lockdown and peasants in Zimbabwe
The exploration of COVID-19 in Zimbabwe and the consequent responses have blind spots in relation to peasant communities. Despite the peasantry featuring in Zimbabwe's agrarian reform literature, such literature is lacking when it comes to the interrogation of how this diverse and sometimes less recognised group responded to the novel virus. The article explores peasant life in a time of COVID-19 and lockdown in Zimbabwe, paying special attention…
Zimbabwe’s fast-track land reform at 20
This article interrogates disability inclusion two decades after Zimbabwe’s fast-tracked land reform and the associated policy pathways for improving the situation of people with disabilities in an agrarian context. Exploring the country’s land reform through disability inclusion lenses is largely missing in literature and policy. Using disability inclusion and interpretivism as the evaluative conceptual framing and heuristic research approach in…
Young people’s agency in Zimbabwe’s precarious informal sector
In Zimbabwe’s ‘new’ dispensation, young people’s agency pertaining to the precarious informal sector and livelihoods has so far received limited attention in youth research, youth literature and social policy of the Global South. This article seeks to reduce lacunae in this regard by exploring their lived experiences, situated meanings and agency, basing on Harare City as the heuristic case study. Against prolonged socioeconomic and political cri…
Decades of Land and Agrarian Reform in Zimbabwe
Land is an enabler and guarantor of people’s socioeconomic wellbeing. As Africa grapples with enduring multiple human development challenges, though not the sole pathway nor a panacea, reforming land tenure, agrarian structures, and agrarian relations has immense capacity to address the structural causes of poverty, inequality and marginalisation. Yet, the corpus of scholarly literature that consciously centres the transformative social policy le…
Accessibility, security, and associated policy issues for people with disabilities in Zimbabwe’s urban areas
Accessibility and security issues pertaining to people with disabilities in Zimbabwe's urban areas have so far received limited priority in scholarship and social policy. This is a major deviation from the prerequisites for disability inclusion, rights-based governance and development, and transformative social policy. Using qualitative research methodology, the paper addresses this compelling lacuna by exploring selected germane issues affecting…
The right to be rural
Social Policy, Development and Democracy in Africa
Social policy, development and democracy in Africa are dominated by externally engineered and controlled philosophies. This has resulted in policy regimes and architecture that fail to sustainably improve the wellbeing of the continent. The article is conceptual and utilises interpretive methodology, and Transformative Social Policy to draw insights from Thandika Mkandawire's philosophy on social policy, development and democracy. The prime argum…
Economics (9 works) · Geography (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Economic growth (8 works) · African studies and sociopolitical issues (7 works) · Development economics (6 works) · African history and culture studies (4 works) · Agrarian society (4 works) · Agriculture (4 works)