Daniel Tevera
Biographic Data
| ID | 125713 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Daniel Tevera |
| GIVEN NAMES | Daniel |
| FAMILY NAME | Tevera |
| SIGNATURE | TEVERA D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of the Western Cape |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7435-005X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 49 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Xenophobia in the Media
Auditing the spatial and temporal changes in urban cropland in Harare metropolitan Province, Zimbabwe
Urban agriculture continues to play a key role in addressing food insecurity and poverty across developing countries. This study used Landsat 5 imagery to map the spatial and temporal distribution of cropland in Harare Metropolitan in Zimbabwe using the Random Forest classifier in Google Earth Engine. Results show that the area under cultivation fluctuated considerably between 1985 and 2019 and several factors account for this trend. The results …
The Palgrave Handbook of South–South Migration and Inequality
Sustainable Development Goals and Food Remittances
The United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) aim to address global challenges like food insecurity, poverty, inequality, and economic growth. Remittances are crucial in achieving these goals, especially in developing countries. By directly supporting households, remittances help reduce poverty and food insecurity, improve access to healthcare and education and bolster financial stability. Strengthening policies to facilitate safe,…
Lifeworlds in Crisis
Making Refugees in the Chad-Sudan Borderlands is an engaging book that addresses the gap in the literature on refugee precarity in the Chad-Sudan borderlands.The book pursues an intersectional approach to examine crises and gendered forms of migration and unpack the complex web of cross-border activities and the multifaceted experiences of refugees in the Chad-Sudan borderlands.Andrea Behrends engages with critical questions about borderland migr…
Unveiling quiet activism
Urban community gardening is emerging as a form of quiet activism challenging the corporate food system. In urban community gardening, quiet activism subtly challenges the dominant corporate food system. However, research tends to overlook its presence and impact in global South cities, where issues of food insecurity and corporatisation are acute. There is a gap in research on urban community gardening activism, with a focus mainly on global Nor…
Experimental urban commons
Contemporary literature on urban agriculture often analyses urban community gardens as 'existing' commons with the capacity to counter neoliberal urban development and resource management practices. However, the existing literature on 'political gardening' generally focuses on cities in North America and Europe, despite the prevalence of urban community gardens and neoliberal planning across other regions, including Southern cities. This paper ex…
Migration in Southern Africa
Migration in Southern Africa is the title of the book edited by Pragna Rugunanan and Nomkhosi Xulu-Gama, whose stated aim is to facilitate migration studies through an Africanist contextual framework that aims to disrupt easy explanations for the migrant and refugee crises experienced in the region.This book is an output from the July 2019 workshop that brought together a diverse range of migration and mobility scholars based mainly in Southern A…
Citizen and Pariah
Citizen and Pariah is the title of a book by Vanya Gastrow that is based on her doctoral and postdoctoral research. In the preface Gastrow informs the reader that “the book investigates violent crime affecting Somali shopkeepers, their ability to access informal and formal justice mechanisms, and efforts to regulate their economic activities”
Expanding Boundaries
Food Resilience and Urban Gardener Networks in Sub-Saharan Africa
This paper draws on the results of a mixed-methods study that investigates whether urban gardener networks in a low-income neighbourhood in Cape Town are contributing to urban agriculture and food resilience. The findings reveal that the urban gardeners are organised into largely fragmented informal networks whose primary goal is to enhance food resilience. While these networks have succeeded in disseminating information, they have not been able …
Traditional Authorities in African Cities
This special issue on the role of traditional authorities in African cities highlights critical debates about governance and urban development on a fast-urbanising continent. The six articles in this issue focus on the following: (1) the roles of traditional authorities as custodians of the values of society; (2) the roles of traditional leaders as moral authorities; (3) the modern chieftaincy as an invention of the colonial state; (4) the 'unrel…
Living With Xenophobia
South Africa’s crisis of xenophobia is defined by the discrimination and intolerance to which migrants are exposed on a daily basis. A major target of the country’s extreme xenophobia – defined as a heightened form of xenophobia in which hostility and opposition to those perceived as outsiders and foreigners is expressed through violent acts – is the businesses run by migrants and refugees in the informal sector. Attitudinal surveys clearly show …
Harnessing Migration for Inclusive Growth and Development in Southern Africa
The primary goal of this study is to present the results of a comprehensive scope of key opportunities and challenges for harnessing migration for inclusive growth and development at the regional level in Southern Africa. The main objectives were as follows: Provide an overview of regional migration stocks and flows identifying regional trends, drivers and impacts from existing research literature and official data; Profile migrant characteristic…
The Owners of Xenophobia
This paper is a contribution to our understanding of the intertwined economic and political crises in Zimbabwe and the crisis of xenophobia in South Africa. There have been few studies to date specifically examining the impact of xenophobic violence on Zimbabweans trying to make a living in the South African informal economy. The paper first provides a picture of Zimbabwean migrant entrepreneurship using survey data from a 2015 study of migrants …
Remaking Life in Transnational Urban Space
Recent academic debate on the transnationalised lives of skilled migrants from developing countries tends to provide universalizing explanations that often fail to address the underlying socio-economic contexts. This paper aims to contribute to the debate by exploring how skilled migrants in South-South diasporic situations remake their livelihood strategies and expectations as they operate in transnational spaces. The paper is based on field res…
Food for the Urban Poor
Food security in Southern African cities
Several decades of research on ‘urban agriculture’ have led to markedly different conclusions about the actual and potential role of household food production in African cities. In the context of rapid urbanization, urban agriculture is, once again, being advocated as a means to mitigate the growing food insecurity of the urban poor. This article examines the contemporary importance of household food production in poor urban communities in 11 dif…
Neoliberalism, Regime Survival, and the Environment
(2001). Neoliberalism, Regime Survival, and the Environment: Economic Reform and Agricultural Transformation in Zimbabwe in the 1990s. Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines: Vol. 35, No. 1, pp. 99-138
Neoliberalism, Regime Survival, and the Environment
B. Ikubolajeh Logan, Daniel Tevera, Neoliberalism, Regime Survival, and the Environment: Economic Reform and Agricultural Transformation in Zimbabwe in the 1990s, Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue Canadienne des Études Africaines, Vol. 35, No. 1 (2001), pp. 99-138
Urban poverty and urban agriculture
Dump Scavenging in Gaborone, Botswana
The aim of this paper is to shed some light on urban poverty in Botswana by examining scavenging activities at the old Tlokweng Road waste dump in Gaborone the capital. The paper contextualises dum
Food security in Southern African cities
Several decades of research on ‘urban agriculture’ have led to markedly different conclusions about the actual and potential role of household food production in African cities. In the context of rapid urbanization, urban agriculture is, once again, being advocated as a means to mitigate the growing food insecurity of the urban poor. This article examines the contemporary importance of household food production in poor urban communities in 11 dif…
Traditional Authorities in African Cities
This special issue on the role of traditional authorities in African cities highlights critical debates about governance and urban development on a fast-urbanising continent. The six articles in this issue focus on the following: (1) the roles of traditional authorities as custodians of the values of society; (2) the roles of traditional leaders as moral authorities; (3) the modern chieftaincy as an invention of the colonial state; (4) the 'unrel…
Urban poverty and urban agriculture
Experimental urban commons
Contemporary literature on urban agriculture often analyses urban community gardens as 'existing' commons with the capacity to counter neoliberal urban development and resource management practices. However, the existing literature on 'political gardening' generally focuses on cities in North America and Europe, despite the prevalence of urban community gardens and neoliberal planning across other regions, including Southern cities. This paper ex…
Food Resilience and Urban Gardener Networks in Sub-Saharan Africa
This paper draws on the results of a mixed-methods study that investigates whether urban gardener networks in a low-income neighbourhood in Cape Town are contributing to urban agriculture and food resilience. The findings reveal that the urban gardeners are organised into largely fragmented informal networks whose primary goal is to enhance food resilience. While these networks have succeeded in disseminating information, they have not been able …
Unveiling quiet activism
Urban community gardening is emerging as a form of quiet activism challenging the corporate food system. In urban community gardening, quiet activism subtly challenges the dominant corporate food system. However, research tends to overlook its presence and impact in global South cities, where issues of food insecurity and corporatisation are acute. There is a gap in research on urban community gardening activism, with a focus mainly on global Nor…
Expanding Boundaries
Dump Scavenging in Gaborone, Botswana
The aim of this paper is to shed some light on urban poverty in Botswana by examining scavenging activities at the old Tlokweng Road waste dump in Gaborone the capital. The paper contextualises dum
Migration in Southern Africa
Migration in Southern Africa is the title of the book edited by Pragna Rugunanan and Nomkhosi Xulu-Gama, whose stated aim is to facilitate migration studies through an Africanist contextual framework that aims to disrupt easy explanations for the migrant and refugee crises experienced in the region.This book is an output from the July 2019 workshop that brought together a diverse range of migration and mobility scholars based mainly in Southern A…
The Owners of Xenophobia
This paper is a contribution to our understanding of the intertwined economic and political crises in Zimbabwe and the crisis of xenophobia in South Africa. There have been few studies to date specifically examining the impact of xenophobic violence on Zimbabweans trying to make a living in the South African informal economy. The paper first provides a picture of Zimbabwean migrant entrepreneurship using survey data from a 2015 study of migrants …
Dump Scavenging in Gaborone, Botswana
The aim of this paper is to shed some light on urban poverty in Botswana by examining scavenging activities at the old Tlokweng Road waste dump in Gaborone the capital. The paper contextualises dum
Urban poverty and urban agriculture
Neoliberalism, Regime Survival, and the Environment
(2001). Neoliberalism, Regime Survival, and the Environment: Economic Reform and Agricultural Transformation in Zimbabwe in the 1990s. Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines: Vol. 35, No. 1, pp. 99-138
Neoliberalism, Regime Survival, and the Environment
B. Ikubolajeh Logan, Daniel Tevera, Neoliberalism, Regime Survival, and the Environment: Economic Reform and Agricultural Transformation in Zimbabwe in the 1990s, Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue Canadienne des Études Africaines, Vol. 35, No. 1 (2001), pp. 99-138
Food security in Southern African cities
Several decades of research on ‘urban agriculture’ have led to markedly different conclusions about the actual and potential role of household food production in African cities. In the context of rapid urbanization, urban agriculture is, once again, being advocated as a means to mitigate the growing food insecurity of the urban poor. This article examines the contemporary importance of household food production in poor urban communities in 11 dif…
Remaking Life in Transnational Urban Space
Recent academic debate on the transnationalised lives of skilled migrants from developing countries tends to provide universalizing explanations that often fail to address the underlying socio-economic contexts. This paper aims to contribute to the debate by exploring how skilled migrants in South-South diasporic situations remake their livelihood strategies and expectations as they operate in transnational spaces. The paper is based on field res…
Food for the Urban Poor
Living With Xenophobia
South Africa’s crisis of xenophobia is defined by the discrimination and intolerance to which migrants are exposed on a daily basis. A major target of the country’s extreme xenophobia – defined as a heightened form of xenophobia in which hostility and opposition to those perceived as outsiders and foreigners is expressed through violent acts – is the businesses run by migrants and refugees in the informal sector. Attitudinal surveys clearly show …
Harnessing Migration for Inclusive Growth and Development in Southern Africa
The primary goal of this study is to present the results of a comprehensive scope of key opportunities and challenges for harnessing migration for inclusive growth and development at the regional level in Southern Africa. The main objectives were as follows: Provide an overview of regional migration stocks and flows identifying regional trends, drivers and impacts from existing research literature and official data; Profile migrant characteristic…
The Owners of Xenophobia
This paper is a contribution to our understanding of the intertwined economic and political crises in Zimbabwe and the crisis of xenophobia in South Africa. There have been few studies to date specifically examining the impact of xenophobic violence on Zimbabweans trying to make a living in the South African informal economy. The paper first provides a picture of Zimbabwean migrant entrepreneurship using survey data from a 2015 study of migrants …
Traditional Authorities in African Cities
This special issue on the role of traditional authorities in African cities highlights critical debates about governance and urban development on a fast-urbanising continent. The six articles in this issue focus on the following: (1) the roles of traditional authorities as custodians of the values of society; (2) the roles of traditional leaders as moral authorities; (3) the modern chieftaincy as an invention of the colonial state; (4) the 'unrel…
Citizen and Pariah
Citizen and Pariah is the title of a book by Vanya Gastrow that is based on her doctoral and postdoctoral research. In the preface Gastrow informs the reader that “the book investigates violent crime affecting Somali shopkeepers, their ability to access informal and formal justice mechanisms, and efforts to regulate their economic activities”
Expanding Boundaries
Food Resilience and Urban Gardener Networks in Sub-Saharan Africa
This paper draws on the results of a mixed-methods study that investigates whether urban gardener networks in a low-income neighbourhood in Cape Town are contributing to urban agriculture and food resilience. The findings reveal that the urban gardeners are organised into largely fragmented informal networks whose primary goal is to enhance food resilience. While these networks have succeeded in disseminating information, they have not been able …
Migration in Southern Africa
Migration in Southern Africa is the title of the book edited by Pragna Rugunanan and Nomkhosi Xulu-Gama, whose stated aim is to facilitate migration studies through an Africanist contextual framework that aims to disrupt easy explanations for the migrant and refugee crises experienced in the region.This book is an output from the July 2019 workshop that brought together a diverse range of migration and mobility scholars based mainly in Southern A…
Auditing the spatial and temporal changes in urban cropland in Harare metropolitan Province, Zimbabwe
Urban agriculture continues to play a key role in addressing food insecurity and poverty across developing countries. This study used Landsat 5 imagery to map the spatial and temporal distribution of cropland in Harare Metropolitan in Zimbabwe using the Random Forest classifier in Google Earth Engine. Results show that the area under cultivation fluctuated considerably between 1985 and 2019 and several factors account for this trend. The results …
The Palgrave Handbook of South–South Migration and Inequality
Sustainable Development Goals and Food Remittances
The United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) aim to address global challenges like food insecurity, poverty, inequality, and economic growth. Remittances are crucial in achieving these goals, especially in developing countries. By directly supporting households, remittances help reduce poverty and food insecurity, improve access to healthcare and education and bolster financial stability. Strengthening policies to facilitate safe,…
Lifeworlds in Crisis
Making Refugees in the Chad-Sudan Borderlands is an engaging book that addresses the gap in the literature on refugee precarity in the Chad-Sudan borderlands.The book pursues an intersectional approach to examine crises and gendered forms of migration and unpack the complex web of cross-border activities and the multifaceted experiences of refugees in the Chad-Sudan borderlands.Andrea Behrends engages with critical questions about borderland migr…
Unveiling quiet activism
Urban community gardening is emerging as a form of quiet activism challenging the corporate food system. In urban community gardening, quiet activism subtly challenges the dominant corporate food system. However, research tends to overlook its presence and impact in global South cities, where issues of food insecurity and corporatisation are acute. There is a gap in research on urban community gardening activism, with a focus mainly on global Nor…
Experimental urban commons
Contemporary literature on urban agriculture often analyses urban community gardens as 'existing' commons with the capacity to counter neoliberal urban development and resource management practices. However, the existing literature on 'political gardening' generally focuses on cities in North America and Europe, despite the prevalence of urban community gardens and neoliberal planning across other regions, including Southern cities. This paper ex…
Xenophobia in the Media
Geography (17 works) · Political science (16 works) · Economic growth (13 works) · Economics (12 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Development economics (7 works) · Agriculture (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Urban Agriculture and Sustainability (6 works) · Business (5 works)