Garth Andrew Myers
Biographic Data
| ID | 92036 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Garth Andrew Myers |
| GIVEN NAMES | Garth Andrew |
| FAMILY NAME | Myers |
| SIGNATURE | MYERS G A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Center for Urban and Global Studies, Trinity College , Hartford, CT, USA |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 195 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
A century of urban planning for Zanzibar’s other side, 1923–2023
This paper interrogates what has and has not changed in 100 years of professional planning in Zanzibar, Tanzania. The geographical focus is on the area of the historic core of the city known as Ng’ambo (a KiSwahili place-name meaning ‘the Other Side’). The gap between formal plans for infrastructure, housing, or neighbourhood development, and their implementation, is examined in its evolution over this century. The central focus of the empirical …
Cultural studies 50 years on: History, Practice and Politics
Cultural studies 50 years on: history, practice and politics." Social & Cultural Geography, 18(4), pp. 596–597
Toward Expanding Links Between Political Geography and African Studies
Africa receives limited attention from political geographers, and African studies scholars pay too little attention to political geography. In reviewing the recent literature on African political geography, several themes emerge. This essay concentrates on three of these: the new scramble for Africa, political ecology, and electoral geography. The first two are areas in which a fair amount of political geography work has been done, but where more…
Wiped From the Map of the World'? Zanzibar, Critical Geopolitics and Language
This essay uses the case of Zanzibar in its complicated relationship with the United Republic of Tanzania (of which it is a part) as a lens on debates in political geography on empirical and conceptual approaches to critical geopolitics. We test the veracity of a multi-faceted critical geopolitics in the contemporary public contestation of Zanzibar's place in the United Republic from 2008–2012. We analyze Tanzanian media, the speech acts of Tanza…
Peri-Urban Land Reform, Political-Economic Reform, and Urban Political Ecology in Zanzibar
The rapid urbanization of land in the peri-urban West District surrounding Zanzibar city in Tanzania has occurred during a 20-year period of political and economic reform, with related reforms in the land sector. Utilizing 2006 and 2007 interviews with officials and residents alongside document and archival research, this study examines two themes in relation to Zanzibar's most prominent program of contemporary land reform, a Finnish-funded proje…
Sustainable Development and Environmental Justice in African Cities
The rhetoric of sustainable development has substantive impacts in African cities, through programs like the United Nations Sustainable Cities Program. Discussions of urban environmental justice are comparatively rare in African cities, with notable exceptions in South African policy and research. I examine the sustainable development and environmental justice literatures in African urban studies, largely around South African and Tanzanian cases.…
Place and Humanistic African Cultural Geography: A Tanzanian Case
Humanistic cultural geography studies of the experience and meaning of place in sub-Saharan Africa are fairly rare. The narration of senses of place has occupied a crucial niche in Anglo-American cultural geography for several decades. Yet edited volumes in humanistic cultural geography seldom have Africa-related chapters, and relatively few Africa-based research outcomes in cultural geography are forthrightly concerned with place meaning from a …
Four caveats for participatory solid waste management in Lusaka, Zambia
Verandahs of Power: Colonialism and Space in Urban Africa (Space, Place, and Society)
Designing power: Forms and purposes of colonial model neighborhoods in British Africa
The Urban Experience in Eastern Africa, c. 1750-2000
Colonial Geography and Masculinity in Eric Dutton's Kenya Mountain
Eric Dutton's Kenya Mountain, (1929) tells the story of an unsuccessful attempt to climb Mount Kenya in the 1920s. In this article, the author concentrates on a close, contextualized reading of the book as a contribution to critical feminist geographical understanding of colonial discourse at a later point in the colonial timeline than has been commonly analyzed in studies of British colonial geographies and travel literature. Dutton's discursive…
Local communities and the new environmental planning: A case study from Zanzibar
Sub–Saharan Africa is experiencing a new round of conservation initiatives, based around democratized local institutions and local knowledge of the environment. This essay uses political ecology research from a case study settlement in the Zanzibar islands of Tanzania to interrogate how to create the enabling conditions for these new conservation programmes. The case study highlights the importance of understanding social and political issues at …
Cultural Geographies in Practice: Safari in Kansas: around the world with Mr and Mrs Johnson
Protecting Privacy in Foreign Fields
Intellectual of Empire: Eric Dutton and Hegemony in British Africa
This essay examines the career of Eric Dutton in five British African colonies from 1919 to 1952, with case studies of his work in Lusaka and Zanzibar. In analyzing Dutton's career, I use a Gramscian conception of the role of intellectuals in creating colonial hegemony, against the backdrop of recent research on the relationship of geography to colonial discourse. Dutton worked and corresponded with key players in Britain's African empire. He was…
The Myth of Continents: A Critique of Metageography
The Peopling of Africa: A Geographical Interpretation
Sticks and stones: Colonialism and Zanzibari housing
It has become commonplace for scholars to speak of cities, especially colonial cities, as texts in which power relations are embedded. This article presents the findings of six years' research, including archival research, interviewing and fieldwork on the planning and development of Zanzibar. I concentrate on house-building and domestic environments in the city's historic African neighbourhoods, known as Ngʼambo, or the 'Other Side'. Struggles f…
Naming and Placing the Other: Power and the Urban Landscape in Zanzibar
Place names mark the spatiality of power relationships, but toponymy has yet to be reexamined in light of human geography's recent philosophical and theoretical emphasis on power and language. This essay utilizes the example of Zanzibar's Ng'ambo neighborhoods, literally the city's ‘Other Side’, in order to show how toponymy and boundary‐making embody a complex spatial discourse on power. Rather than simply reflecting the impress of state or elit…
Isle of Cloves, Sea of Discourses: Writing About Zanzibar
A Stupendous Hammer: Colonial and Post-colonial Reconstructions of Zanzibar's Other Side
Ng'ambo is the historic Other Side of Zanzibar city. The last 50 years have brought two attempts to demolish Ng'ambo and replace it with spaces designed to express the dominance of the state. Differences at first appear to be large between colonial and post-colonial Zanzibar. Yet these reconstructions shared similar objectives, failures and consequences. This paper highlights commonalities between the two projects and ties them to three themes fr…
Eurocentrism and African Urbanization: The Case of Zanzibar's Other Side
S A number of geographers have recently championed the struggle against Eurocentric theoretical categorizations in geographical research on African cities. At the same time, many whose work has concentrated on African urban geography have felt left out in the more abstract theoretical debates of their colleagues based in the West. I argue for the possibility of confronting Western bias and contributing to broader theoretical debates by creating t…
Naming and Placing the Other: Power and the Urban Landscape in Zanzibar
Place names mark the spatiality of power relationships, but toponymy has yet to be reexamined in light of human geography's recent philosophical and theoretical emphasis on power and language. This essay utilizes the example of Zanzibar's Ng'ambo neighborhoods, literally the city's ‘Other Side’, in order to show how toponymy and boundary‐making embody a complex spatial discourse on power. Rather than simply reflecting the impress of state or elit…
The Urban Experience in Eastern Africa, c. 1750-2000
Eurocentrism and African Urbanization: The Case of Zanzibar's Other Side
S A number of geographers have recently championed the struggle against Eurocentric theoretical categorizations in geographical research on African cities. At the same time, many whose work has concentrated on African urban geography have felt left out in the more abstract theoretical debates of their colleagues based in the West. I argue for the possibility of confronting Western bias and contributing to broader theoretical debates by creating t…
Peri-Urban Land Reform, Political-Economic Reform, and Urban Political Ecology in Zanzibar
The rapid urbanization of land in the peri-urban West District surrounding Zanzibar city in Tanzania has occurred during a 20-year period of political and economic reform, with related reforms in the land sector. Utilizing 2006 and 2007 interviews with officials and residents alongside document and archival research, this study examines two themes in relation to Zanzibar's most prominent program of contemporary land reform, a Finnish-funded proje…
Designing power: Forms and purposes of colonial model neighborhoods in British Africa
A Stupendous Hammer: Colonial and Post-colonial Reconstructions of Zanzibar's Other Side
Ng'ambo is the historic Other Side of Zanzibar city. The last 50 years have brought two attempts to demolish Ng'ambo and replace it with spaces designed to express the dominance of the state. Differences at first appear to be large between colonial and post-colonial Zanzibar. Yet these reconstructions shared similar objectives, failures and consequences. This paper highlights commonalities between the two projects and ties them to three themes fr…
Local communities and the new environmental planning: A case study from Zanzibar
Sub–Saharan Africa is experiencing a new round of conservation initiatives, based around democratized local institutions and local knowledge of the environment. This essay uses political ecology research from a case study settlement in the Zanzibar islands of Tanzania to interrogate how to create the enabling conditions for these new conservation programmes. The case study highlights the importance of understanding social and political issues at …
Sticks and stones: Colonialism and Zanzibari housing
It has become commonplace for scholars to speak of cities, especially colonial cities, as texts in which power relations are embedded. This article presents the findings of six years' research, including archival research, interviewing and fieldwork on the planning and development of Zanzibar. I concentrate on house-building and domestic environments in the city's historic African neighbourhoods, known as Ngʼambo, or the 'Other Side'. Struggles f…
Intellectual of Empire: Eric Dutton and Hegemony in British Africa
This essay examines the career of Eric Dutton in five British African colonies from 1919 to 1952, with case studies of his work in Lusaka and Zanzibar. In analyzing Dutton's career, I use a Gramscian conception of the role of intellectuals in creating colonial hegemony, against the backdrop of recent research on the relationship of geography to colonial discourse. Dutton worked and corresponded with key players in Britain's African empire. He was…
Sustainable Development and Environmental Justice in African Cities
The rhetoric of sustainable development has substantive impacts in African cities, through programs like the United Nations Sustainable Cities Program. Discussions of urban environmental justice are comparatively rare in African cities, with notable exceptions in South African policy and research. I examine the sustainable development and environmental justice literatures in African urban studies, largely around South African and Tanzanian cases.…
Colonial Geography and Masculinity in Eric Dutton's Kenya Mountain
Eric Dutton's Kenya Mountain, (1929) tells the story of an unsuccessful attempt to climb Mount Kenya in the 1920s. In this article, the author concentrates on a close, contextualized reading of the book as a contribution to critical feminist geographical understanding of colonial discourse at a later point in the colonial timeline than has been commonly analyzed in studies of British colonial geographies and travel literature. Dutton's discursive…
Wiped From the Map of the World'? Zanzibar, Critical Geopolitics and Language
This essay uses the case of Zanzibar in its complicated relationship with the United Republic of Tanzania (of which it is a part) as a lens on debates in political geography on empirical and conceptual approaches to critical geopolitics. We test the veracity of a multi-faceted critical geopolitics in the contemporary public contestation of Zanzibar's place in the United Republic from 2008–2012. We analyze Tanzanian media, the speech acts of Tanza…
Isle of Cloves, Sea of Discourses: Writing About Zanzibar
Cultural studies 50 years on: History, Practice and Politics
Cultural studies 50 years on: history, practice and politics." Social & Cultural Geography, 18(4), pp. 596–597
Toward Expanding Links Between Political Geography and African Studies
Africa receives limited attention from political geographers, and African studies scholars pay too little attention to political geography. In reviewing the recent literature on African political geography, several themes emerge. This essay concentrates on three of these: the new scramble for Africa, political ecology, and electoral geography. The first two are areas in which a fair amount of political geography work has been done, but where more…
Protecting Privacy in Foreign Fields
The Peopling of Africa: A Geographical Interpretation
Place and Humanistic African Cultural Geography: A Tanzanian Case
Humanistic cultural geography studies of the experience and meaning of place in sub-Saharan Africa are fairly rare. The narration of senses of place has occupied a crucial niche in Anglo-American cultural geography for several decades. Yet edited volumes in humanistic cultural geography seldom have Africa-related chapters, and relatively few Africa-based research outcomes in cultural geography are forthrightly concerned with place meaning from a …
Eurocentrism and African Urbanization: The Case of Zanzibar's Other Side
S A number of geographers have recently championed the struggle against Eurocentric theoretical categorizations in geographical research on African cities. At the same time, many whose work has concentrated on African urban geography have felt left out in the more abstract theoretical debates of their colleagues based in the West. I argue for the possibility of confronting Western bias and contributing to broader theoretical debates by creating t…
A Stupendous Hammer: Colonial and Post-colonial Reconstructions of Zanzibar's Other Side
Ng'ambo is the historic Other Side of Zanzibar city. The last 50 years have brought two attempts to demolish Ng'ambo and replace it with spaces designed to express the dominance of the state. Differences at first appear to be large between colonial and post-colonial Zanzibar. Yet these reconstructions shared similar objectives, failures and consequences. This paper highlights commonalities between the two projects and ties them to three themes fr…
Naming and Placing the Other: Power and the Urban Landscape in Zanzibar
Place names mark the spatiality of power relationships, but toponymy has yet to be reexamined in light of human geography's recent philosophical and theoretical emphasis on power and language. This essay utilizes the example of Zanzibar's Ng'ambo neighborhoods, literally the city's ‘Other Side’, in order to show how toponymy and boundary‐making embody a complex spatial discourse on power. Rather than simply reflecting the impress of state or elit…
Isle of Cloves, Sea of Discourses: Writing About Zanzibar
Sticks and stones: Colonialism and Zanzibari housing
It has become commonplace for scholars to speak of cities, especially colonial cities, as texts in which power relations are embedded. This article presents the findings of six years' research, including archival research, interviewing and fieldwork on the planning and development of Zanzibar. I concentrate on house-building and domestic environments in the city's historic African neighbourhoods, known as Ngʼambo, or the 'Other Side'. Struggles f…
Intellectual of Empire: Eric Dutton and Hegemony in British Africa
This essay examines the career of Eric Dutton in five British African colonies from 1919 to 1952, with case studies of his work in Lusaka and Zanzibar. In analyzing Dutton's career, I use a Gramscian conception of the role of intellectuals in creating colonial hegemony, against the backdrop of recent research on the relationship of geography to colonial discourse. Dutton worked and corresponded with key players in Britain's African empire. He was…
The Myth of Continents: A Critique of Metageography
The Peopling of Africa: A Geographical Interpretation
Cultural Geographies in Practice: Safari in Kansas: around the world with Mr and Mrs Johnson
Protecting Privacy in Foreign Fields
Colonial Geography and Masculinity in Eric Dutton's Kenya Mountain
Eric Dutton's Kenya Mountain, (1929) tells the story of an unsuccessful attempt to climb Mount Kenya in the 1920s. In this article, the author concentrates on a close, contextualized reading of the book as a contribution to critical feminist geographical understanding of colonial discourse at a later point in the colonial timeline than has been commonly analyzed in studies of British colonial geographies and travel literature. Dutton's discursive…
Local communities and the new environmental planning: A case study from Zanzibar
Sub–Saharan Africa is experiencing a new round of conservation initiatives, based around democratized local institutions and local knowledge of the environment. This essay uses political ecology research from a case study settlement in the Zanzibar islands of Tanzania to interrogate how to create the enabling conditions for these new conservation programmes. The case study highlights the importance of understanding social and political issues at …
Verandahs of Power: Colonialism and Space in Urban Africa (Space, Place, and Society)
Designing power: Forms and purposes of colonial model neighborhoods in British Africa
The Urban Experience in Eastern Africa, c. 1750-2000
Four caveats for participatory solid waste management in Lusaka, Zambia
Place and Humanistic African Cultural Geography: A Tanzanian Case
Humanistic cultural geography studies of the experience and meaning of place in sub-Saharan Africa are fairly rare. The narration of senses of place has occupied a crucial niche in Anglo-American cultural geography for several decades. Yet edited volumes in humanistic cultural geography seldom have Africa-related chapters, and relatively few Africa-based research outcomes in cultural geography are forthrightly concerned with place meaning from a …
Peri-Urban Land Reform, Political-Economic Reform, and Urban Political Ecology in Zanzibar
The rapid urbanization of land in the peri-urban West District surrounding Zanzibar city in Tanzania has occurred during a 20-year period of political and economic reform, with related reforms in the land sector. Utilizing 2006 and 2007 interviews with officials and residents alongside document and archival research, this study examines two themes in relation to Zanzibar's most prominent program of contemporary land reform, a Finnish-funded proje…
Sustainable Development and Environmental Justice in African Cities
The rhetoric of sustainable development has substantive impacts in African cities, through programs like the United Nations Sustainable Cities Program. Discussions of urban environmental justice are comparatively rare in African cities, with notable exceptions in South African policy and research. I examine the sustainable development and environmental justice literatures in African urban studies, largely around South African and Tanzanian cases.…
Wiped From the Map of the World'? Zanzibar, Critical Geopolitics and Language
This essay uses the case of Zanzibar in its complicated relationship with the United Republic of Tanzania (of which it is a part) as a lens on debates in political geography on empirical and conceptual approaches to critical geopolitics. We test the veracity of a multi-faceted critical geopolitics in the contemporary public contestation of Zanzibar's place in the United Republic from 2008–2012. We analyze Tanzanian media, the speech acts of Tanza…
Toward Expanding Links Between Political Geography and African Studies
Africa receives limited attention from political geographers, and African studies scholars pay too little attention to political geography. In reviewing the recent literature on African political geography, several themes emerge. This essay concentrates on three of these: the new scramble for Africa, political ecology, and electoral geography. The first two are areas in which a fair amount of political geography work has been done, but where more…
Cultural studies 50 years on: History, Practice and Politics
Cultural studies 50 years on: history, practice and politics." Social & Cultural Geography, 18(4), pp. 596–597
A century of urban planning for Zanzibar’s other side, 1923–2023
This paper interrogates what has and has not changed in 100 years of professional planning in Zanzibar, Tanzania. The geographical focus is on the area of the historic core of the city known as Ng’ambo (a KiSwahili place-name meaning ‘the Other Side’). The gap between formal plans for infrastructure, housing, or neighbourhood development, and their implementation, is examined in its evolution over this century. The central focus of the empirical …
Geography (15 works) · Political science (15 works) · Sociology (15 works) · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories (14 works) · Law (12 works) · Politics (12 works) · Law (10 works) · African history and culture studies (8 works) · Urban and Rural Development Challenges (7 works) · Colonialism (6 works)