Carole Rakodi
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 126064 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Carole Rakodi |
| PRENOMES | Carole |
| SOBRENOME | Rakodi |
| ASSINATURA | RAKODI C |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Wales |
| ORCID | 0009-0003-6768-5091 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 44 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 406 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 42 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1986 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2019 |
| ÍNDICE H | 10 |
Religion and Society in Sub-Saharan Africa and Southern Asia
This book analyses how religion is entangled in people’s lives in Sub-Saharan Africa and southern Asia. It provides an introduction to the teachings, practices and values promoted by the main religious traditions in these regions and an overview of the evidence on what religion means to people in terms of their beliefs and religious practices and how it influences their values, attitudes and day-to-day relationships with others, especially their …
Religion, Religious Organisations and Development
Urban land conflict in the Global South
In cities of the Global South, access to land is a pressing concern. Typically neither states nor markets provide suitable land for all users, especially low-income households. In the context of urban growth and inequality, acute competition for land and the regulatory failures of states often result in conflict, which is sometimes violent, affecting urban authorities and residents. Conflicts are often mentioned in analyses of urban land, but rar…
Religion and social life in African cities
Inter-Religious Violence and its Aftermath
Azar's framework for analysing protracted social conflict is used to examine the roles played by religious and other actors in episodes of inter-religious violence and their aftermath in two cities in India (Ahmedabad and Mumbai) and two in Nigeria (Jos and Kano). Although the violence was apparently related to differences in beliefs and/or religious expansionism, explanations were more complicated. Religious organizations provided relief to vict…
Poverty and Morality
Edited by W.A. Galston and P.H. Hoffenberg Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010, pp. 312, £17.99, ISBN 978-0-521-76374-5 This book is the outcome of a project in comparative ethics organised
Religion and development
Writing on the relationships between religion and development has blossomed in the last decade or so, after years of relative neglect. Like any field of social enquiry that is both underdeveloped and closely linked to the interests of advocates and practitioners, the work available to date has encountered various pitfalls. These are outlined, to pinpoint the contribution that this special issue makes to the rapidly-evolving body of research on re…
A framework for analysing the links between religion and development
In mainstream development thinking, policy, and practice, religion has generally been neglected, despite its pervasiveness and importance. As a result, analysts puzzle over how best to study the complex links between religion and development. The framework outlined in this paper addresses the question – how can the presence, nature, and activities of religious people and organisations be better understood, so that they can be taken into account i…
Revisiting Religion
The limits of land titling and home ownership
This paper reviews whether land titling programmes have achieved the benefits claimed by their proponents. It finds that they have generally failed to do so. Investment in land and housing, access to formal credit, and municipal revenues have not increased noticeably more than under other tenure regimes, including those that allow many unauthorized settlements, and there is no significant evidence of poverty levels being reduced. Titling does pro…
Social agency and state authority in land delivery processes in African cities
Housing land delivery processes in five medium-sized cities in Anglophone Africa (Enugu in Nigeria, Kampala in Uganda, Maseru in Lesotho, Gaborone in Botswana and Eldoret in Kenya) are compared, to identify commonalities and differences in the channels for housing land delivery and relations between the informal and formal institutions and actors involved. Factors that have led to compliance or non-compliance with regulatory provisions are identi…
Relationships of power and place
Politics and performance
Poverty and political conflict in Mombasa
This paper describes how complex political struggles in Mombasa underlie the inadequate provision for basic infrastructure and services, and the corruption and lack of accountability within government. These struggles are underpinned by overlapping responsibilities and rivalry between central and local government, and a political system (both national and local) which plays on ethnic and tribal loyalties as a basis for support and reward. The pap…
Poverty and political conflict in Mombasa
This paper describes how complex political struggles in Mombasa underlie the inadequate provision for basic infrastructure and services, and the corruption and lack of accountability within government. These struggles are underpinned by overlapping responsibilities and rivalry between central and local government, and a political system (both national and local) which plays on ethnic and tribal loyalties as a basis for support and reward. The pap…
A Capital Assets Framework for Analysing Household Livelihood Strategies
The urban challenge in Africa
In this work, scholars examine the growth of the largest cities in Africa. It is revealed that the new phase of globalization has reinforced the continent's marginalization, impoverishment, indebtedness, and lack of policy autonomy, rather than leading to economic growth and diversification.
Women in the city of man
This article reviews recent publications that add to the debate about gender and human settlements. Urban development is ultimately shaped by gender assumptions and by the way in which each sex experiences the urban environment; gender-blind urban planning can be overcome by reaching a greater understanding of women's economic and social roles (and the limitations imposed on them) in urban society. Most of the recent publications on women and hum…
Urban Land Policy in Zimbabwe
Related to the functions of the central state and local state, a range of interventions in the urban land-development process may be pursued. Typically, policies and practices related to land are devised at different times for different purposes and are administered by different agencies. Rarely are the relationships between them, their implementation, and their overall impact considered systematically, especially for developing countries. In thi…
Housing finance for lower income urban households in Zimbabwe
Housing finance systems in developing countries have been the subject of considerable international agency research and lending attention in recent years. The lack of availability of finance for public sector housing programmes and for the purchase of construction of housing by all income groups in urban areas is typically a major constraint on the ability of supply to meet demand. However, national efforts have often not dealt systematically wit…
Housing aspirations and affordability in Harare and Gweru
The household strategies of the urban poor
Sites and services
Poverty lines or household strategies
Urban poverty
The limits of land titling and home ownership
This paper reviews whether land titling programmes have achieved the benefits claimed by their proponents. It finds that they have generally failed to do so. Investment in land and housing, access to formal credit, and municipal revenues have not increased noticeably more than under other tenure regimes, including those that allow many unauthorized settlements, and there is no significant evidence of poverty levels being reduced. Titling does pro…
Revisiting Religion
Urban land conflict in the Global South
In cities of the Global South, access to land is a pressing concern. Typically neither states nor markets provide suitable land for all users, especially low-income households. In the context of urban growth and inequality, acute competition for land and the regulatory failures of states often result in conflict, which is sometimes violent, affecting urban authorities and residents. Conflicts are often mentioned in analyses of urban land, but rar…
Social agency and state authority in land delivery processes in African cities
Housing land delivery processes in five medium-sized cities in Anglophone Africa (Enugu in Nigeria, Kampala in Uganda, Maseru in Lesotho, Gaborone in Botswana and Eldoret in Kenya) are compared, to identify commonalities and differences in the channels for housing land delivery and relations between the informal and formal institutions and actors involved. Factors that have led to compliance or non-compliance with regulatory provisions are identi…
Urban Agriculture
The cultivation of food crops within the overall boundaries of towns and cities is not new, but has been forgotten or ignored in the last 20 years, while urbanisation has, it is thought, absorbed a disproportionate share of national resources. Can, however, an alternative form of urban development, less greedy of financial and natural assets, capable of satisfying the basic needs of the population and of reducing the vulnerability of the poorest,…
Poverty lines or household strategies
Housing markets in third world cities
Relationships of power and place
Rental Tenure in the Cities of Developing Countries
Women's work or household strategies
Women's work or household strategies considers some conceptual and methodological issues in seeking a better understanding of the position of women in urban areas. The author discusses the nature of the "household" and draws on the literature to highlight the unequal balance between male and female household members in terms of power and access to knowledge, resources and income
Politics and performance
Poverty and political conflict in Mombasa
This paper describes how complex political struggles in Mombasa underlie the inadequate provision for basic infrastructure and services, and the corruption and lack of accountability within government. These struggles are underpinned by overlapping responsibilities and rivalry between central and local government, and a political system (both national and local) which plays on ethnic and tribal loyalties as a basis for support and reward. The pap…
Developing institutional capacity to meet the housing needs of the urban poor
Religion and development
Writing on the relationships between religion and development has blossomed in the last decade or so, after years of relative neglect. Like any field of social enquiry that is both underdeveloped and closely linked to the interests of advocates and practitioners, the work available to date has encountered various pitfalls. These are outlined, to pinpoint the contribution that this special issue makes to the rapidly-evolving body of research on re…
A framework for analysing the links between religion and development
In mainstream development thinking, policy, and practice, religion has generally been neglected, despite its pervasiveness and importance. As a result, analysts puzzle over how best to study the complex links between religion and development. The framework outlined in this paper addresses the question – how can the presence, nature, and activities of religious people and organisations be better understood, so that they can be taken into account i…
From a Settler History to an African Present
The economies, politics, and sociology of a settler society are shown to have shaped the urban built environment in Harare in enduring ways. The postindependence period has been marked by limited changes but greater continuities. Although the public sector accepts responsibility for satisfying low-income housing needs by supplying serviced plots, this bureaucratic supply is quantitatively inadequate and not affordable by many. The analysis reveal…
Land, layouts and infrastructure in squatter upgrading
State and Class in Africa
Four alternative theoretical approaches to analysing the form of the national state are outlined, their use in studies of African countries noted, and their appropriateness assessed, to provide background for a consideration of the possible utility of the concept of a local state in analysing African urban situations. Instrumentalist views of the national state In Africa are now less widely used than structuralist approaches, and so structuralist…
Urban Land Policy in Zimbabwe
Related to the functions of the central state and local state, a range of interventions in the urban land-development process may be pursued. Typically, policies and practices related to land are devised at different times for different purposes and are administered by different agencies. Rarely are the relationships between them, their implementation, and their overall impact considered systematically, especially for developing countries. In thi…
Upgrading in Chawama, Lusaka
Provision of security of tenure and infrastructure in unauthorised residential areas of Third World cities may render such areas more attractive to higher income households. The danger of displacement is increased if regularisation involves additional costs to residents. The impact of upgrading in a squatter area in Lusaka is evaluated, to ascertain the extent to which it improved living conditions, benefited all residents equally and led to disp…
Housing finance for lower income urban households in Zimbabwe
Housing finance systems in developing countries have been the subject of considerable international agency research and lending attention in recent years. The lack of availability of finance for public sector housing programmes and for the purchase of construction of housing by all income groups in urban areas is typically a major constraint on the ability of supply to meet demand. However, national efforts have often not dealt systematically wit…
Self-help housing
Urban plan preparation in Lusaka
The household strategies of the urban poor
Sites and services
State and Class in Africa
Four alternative theoretical approaches to analysing the form of the national state are outlined, their use in studies of African countries noted, and their appropriateness assessed, to provide background for a consideration of the possible utility of the concept of a local state in analysing African urban situations. Instrumentalist views of the national state In Africa are now less widely used than structuralist approaches, and so structuralist…
Land, layouts and infrastructure in squatter upgrading
Urban plan preparation in Lusaka
Upgrading in Chawama, Lusaka
Provision of security of tenure and infrastructure in unauthorised residential areas of Third World cities may render such areas more attractive to higher income households. The danger of displacement is increased if regularisation involves additional costs to residents. The impact of upgrading in a squatter area in Lusaka is evaluated, to ascertain the extent to which it improved living conditions, benefited all residents equally and led to disp…
Urban Agriculture
The cultivation of food crops within the overall boundaries of towns and cities is not new, but has been forgotten or ignored in the last 20 years, while urbanisation has, it is thought, absorbed a disproportionate share of national resources. Can, however, an alternative form of urban development, less greedy of financial and natural assets, capable of satisfying the basic needs of the population and of reducing the vulnerability of the poorest,…
Self-help housing
Housing Production and Housing Policy in Harare, Zimbabwe
In recent years, the government in Zimbabwe has continued its pre-independence housing policy attempts to control, directly or indirectly, the production of housing for all income groups. This article, which is part of an overall review of housing, production, and exchange in Harare, Zimbabwe, summarizes available evidence on housing production and the effects of government intervention on housing markets. The assumptions on which housing policy …
Cities and people conference
The future of urbanization
Does aid work
Women's work or household strategies
Women's work or household strategies considers some conceptual and methodological issues in seeking a better understanding of the position of women in urban areas. The author discusses the nature of the "household" and draws on the literature to highlight the unequal balance between male and female household members in terms of power and access to knowledge, resources and income
Developing institutional capacity to meet the housing needs of the urban poor
Housing markets in third world cities
Managing Fast Growing Cities
Planning for sustainable urban development — cities and natural resource systems in developing countries
Housing finance for lower income urban households in Zimbabwe
Housing finance systems in developing countries have been the subject of considerable international agency research and lending attention in recent years. The lack of availability of finance for public sector housing programmes and for the purchase of construction of housing by all income groups in urban areas is typically a major constraint on the ability of supply to meet demand. However, national efforts have often not dealt systematically wit…
Housing aspirations and affordability in Harare and Gweru
The household strategies of the urban poor
Sites and services
Poverty lines or household strategies
Urban poverty
Rental Tenure in the Cities of Developing Countries
Urban Management
Preface The Challenge of Urban Management: Some Issues by G. Shabbir Cheema Urbanization Process and Strategies Global Urbanization: Challenges and the Transfer of Innovations by Janice E. Perlman Problems of Metropolitan Management in Asia by Harry W. Richardson Urbanization and Urban Development Strategies in East Africa by R. A. Obudho Urban Management Issues: Comparative Analysis Housing Policies: A Review of Changing Government Attitudes and…
From a Settler History to an African Present
The economies, politics, and sociology of a settler society are shown to have shaped the urban built environment in Harare in enduring ways. The postindependence period has been marked by limited changes but greater continuities. Although the public sector accepts responsibility for satisfying low-income housing needs by supplying serviced plots, this bureaucratic supply is quantitatively inadequate and not affordable by many. The analysis reveal…
Home Ownership and Commodification of Housing in Zimbabwe
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