Kudzai Chatiza
Biographic Data
| ID | 5019059 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kudzai Chatiza |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kudzai |
| FAMILY NAME | Chatiza |
| SIGNATURE | CHATIZA K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Director, Development Governance Institute, Harare, Zimbabwe |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Township Economies as Left-Behind Places: Case of Chitungwiza, Zimbabwe
This article applies the left-behind places (LBPs) framework to explain how colonial planning legacies and post-colonial politics jointly reproduce marginalization in Chitungwiza. Drawing on 25 in-depth interviews with entrepreneurs and 10 key-informant interviews, complemented by municipal plans and secondary sources, we show that Chitungwiza’s economy is predominantly survivalist yet entrepreneurial, with firms embedded in dense social networks…
Partisan citizenship and its discontents: Precarious possession and political agency on Harare City’s expanding margins
On the margins of Zimbabwe’s expanding capital Harare, the ruling ZANU–PF party promotes a view of access to urban land, housing and security as ‘gift’, conditional on demonstrations of party loyalty. This article discusses contestation over this form of partisan citizenship, making the following broader arguments. First, it argues that the notion of partisan citizenship draws attention to the role of party political affiliation as a source of di…
Frontiers of Urban Control: Lawlessness on the City Edge and Forms of Clientalist Statecraft in Zimbabwe
This article develops the concept of “urban frontier” to explore conflicts over state regularisation of city edge informal settlements in Zimbabwe’s capital Harare. It conceptualises the presence of “lawless” urban frontiers and “illegal” territorial authorities in capital cities as expressions of a permissive form of central statecraft. In so doing, the article takes forward debates over the politics shaping the margins of Africa’s rapidly expan…
Partisan citizenship and its discontents: Precarious possession and political agency on Harare City’s expanding margins
On the margins of Zimbabwe’s expanding capital Harare, the ruling ZANU–PF party promotes a view of access to urban land, housing and security as ‘gift’, conditional on demonstrations of party loyalty. This article discusses contestation over this form of partisan citizenship, making the following broader arguments. First, it argues that the notion of partisan citizenship draws attention to the role of party political affiliation as a source of di…
Frontiers of Urban Control: Lawlessness on the City Edge and Forms of Clientalist Statecraft in Zimbabwe
This article develops the concept of “urban frontier” to explore conflicts over state regularisation of city edge informal settlements in Zimbabwe’s capital Harare. It conceptualises the presence of “lawless” urban frontiers and “illegal” territorial authorities in capital cities as expressions of a permissive form of central statecraft. In so doing, the article takes forward debates over the politics shaping the margins of Africa’s rapidly expan…
Frontiers of Urban Control: Lawlessness on the City Edge and Forms of Clientalist Statecraft in Zimbabwe
This article develops the concept of “urban frontier” to explore conflicts over state regularisation of city edge informal settlements in Zimbabwe’s capital Harare. It conceptualises the presence of “lawless” urban frontiers and “illegal” territorial authorities in capital cities as expressions of a permissive form of central statecraft. In so doing, the article takes forward debates over the politics shaping the margins of Africa’s rapidly expan…
Partisan citizenship and its discontents: Precarious possession and political agency on Harare City’s expanding margins
On the margins of Zimbabwe’s expanding capital Harare, the ruling ZANU–PF party promotes a view of access to urban land, housing and security as ‘gift’, conditional on demonstrations of party loyalty. This article discusses contestation over this form of partisan citizenship, making the following broader arguments. First, it argues that the notion of partisan citizenship draws attention to the role of party political affiliation as a source of di…
Township Economies as Left-Behind Places: Case of Chitungwiza, Zimbabwe
This article applies the left-behind places (LBPs) framework to explain how colonial planning legacies and post-colonial politics jointly reproduce marginalization in Chitungwiza. Drawing on 25 in-depth interviews with entrepreneurs and 10 key-informant interviews, complemented by municipal plans and secondary sources, we show that Chitungwiza’s economy is predominantly survivalist yet entrepreneurial, with firms embedded in dense social networks…
African studies and sociopolitical issues (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · African history and culture studies (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Political economy (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Urban and Rural Development Challenges (2 works) · Capital (architecture (1 works) · Citizenship (1 works)