Amanda Hammar
Biographic Data
| ID | 99642 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Amanda Hammar |
| GIVEN NAMES | Amanda |
| FAMILY NAME | Hammar |
| SIGNATURE | HAMMAR A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Nordic Africa Institute |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9044-987X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 94 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Juxtacity
Certifications of citizenship
A focus on certifications of citizenship as a range of inter-related practices of identity classification, categorisation, registration and validation, provides productive opportunities to explore the many ways that different authorities and/or different citizens engage with both the meaning and materiality of identity documents. At the heart of such practices is a complex politics of recognition that in turn is linked to the political economies …
Becoming Mozambicanised
This article explores the ways in which displaced Zimbabweans who migrated to Mozambique’s Manica Province in the 2000s in the wake of political and economic crisis, constructed a largely unreflective discursive dichotomy between remembered ‘order’ in Zimbabwe and perceived ‘disorder’ in Mozambique. It does so through the lens of two empirical domains of practice: that of public policy, and that of production and enterprise. Unpacking the complex…
Urban Displacement and Resettlement in Zimbabwe
This article examines what urban displacement and resettlement can reveal about the nature of, and co-constitutive relationships among, property, authority, and citizenship. It focuses on an unusual case in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, where long-term illegal squatters living under constant threat of violent displacement by various local and national authorities were formally resettled by the Bulawayo City Council on peri-urban plots with houses. What sur…
Whiteness in Zimbabwe. Race, landscape, and the problem of belonging
Introduction. Displacing Zimbabwe
Since early 2000, political violence and dramatic economic contraction have displaced people within and beyond Zimbabwe's borders on an extraordinary scale.1 The politicised state intrusions into Z
Ambivalent Mobilities
One of the effects of the crisis in Zimbabwe since 2000 has been both the direct and indirect internal displacement of farmers, farm workers and innumerable others for both political and economic reasons, as well as the movement of millions of Zimbabweans across borders into neighbouring countries and further afield. Among some of the reluctant cross-border migrants in the region is a relatively small number (around 80 families) of mostly white Z…
Local Politics and the Dynamics of Property in Africa - By Christian Lund
In the name of sovereignty
This article argues that state-induced displacements are not aberrations, but rather an ever-present possibility and practice integral to contemporary as well as past modes of rule and state making. States and their allies make discursive use of notions of sovereignty to legitimise violence and displacement against selective citizens in the service of different projects at multiple scales. Such practices are themselves a means of producing and pe…
Introduction
This special issue considers how contemporary forms of displacement in southern Africa may be approached and analysed in terms of multiple ‘political economies of displacement’. Drawing insight from classic concepts of political economy, but without adhering to the more rigid aspects of these frameworks, the five studies that comprise this collection explore how certain values related to identity, violence, movement and belonging may be generated…
The Unsettled Land
The Day of Burning
A violent eviction in a remote northwestern corner of Zimbabwe in late 1997 provides a prism through which to explore the changing dynamics of competition over space, power and production in Zimbabwe's agrarian margins, where con?ict over wildlife and agriculture has intensi?ed and the state has become a key player. The article argues that in its quest to (re)gain control over one such location, the state has had to construct it as space of viole…
Introduction. Displacing Zimbabwe
Since early 2000, political violence and dramatic economic contraction have displaced people within and beyond Zimbabwe's borders on an extraordinary scale.1 The politicised state intrusions into Z
Urban Displacement and Resettlement in Zimbabwe
This article examines what urban displacement and resettlement can reveal about the nature of, and co-constitutive relationships among, property, authority, and citizenship. It focuses on an unusual case in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, where long-term illegal squatters living under constant threat of violent displacement by various local and national authorities were formally resettled by the Bulawayo City Council on peri-urban plots with houses. What sur…
In the name of sovereignty
This article argues that state-induced displacements are not aberrations, but rather an ever-present possibility and practice integral to contemporary as well as past modes of rule and state making. States and their allies make discursive use of notions of sovereignty to legitimise violence and displacement against selective citizens in the service of different projects at multiple scales. Such practices are themselves a means of producing and pe…
Whiteness in Zimbabwe. Race, landscape, and the problem of belonging
The Day of Burning
A violent eviction in a remote northwestern corner of Zimbabwe in late 1997 provides a prism through which to explore the changing dynamics of competition over space, power and production in Zimbabwe's agrarian margins, where con?ict over wildlife and agriculture has intensi?ed and the state has become a key player. The article argues that in its quest to (re)gain control over one such location, the state has had to construct it as space of viole…
Ambivalent Mobilities
One of the effects of the crisis in Zimbabwe since 2000 has been both the direct and indirect internal displacement of farmers, farm workers and innumerable others for both political and economic reasons, as well as the movement of millions of Zimbabweans across borders into neighbouring countries and further afield. Among some of the reluctant cross-border migrants in the region is a relatively small number (around 80 families) of mostly white Z…
Certifications of citizenship
A focus on certifications of citizenship as a range of inter-related practices of identity classification, categorisation, registration and validation, provides productive opportunities to explore the many ways that different authorities and/or different citizens engage with both the meaning and materiality of identity documents. At the heart of such practices is a complex politics of recognition that in turn is linked to the political economies …
Introduction
This special issue considers how contemporary forms of displacement in southern Africa may be approached and analysed in terms of multiple ‘political economies of displacement’. Drawing insight from classic concepts of political economy, but without adhering to the more rigid aspects of these frameworks, the five studies that comprise this collection explore how certain values related to identity, violence, movement and belonging may be generated…
The Day of Burning
A violent eviction in a remote northwestern corner of Zimbabwe in late 1997 provides a prism through which to explore the changing dynamics of competition over space, power and production in Zimbabwe's agrarian margins, where con?ict over wildlife and agriculture has intensi?ed and the state has become a key player. The article argues that in its quest to (re)gain control over one such location, the state has had to construct it as space of viole…
The Unsettled Land
In the name of sovereignty
This article argues that state-induced displacements are not aberrations, but rather an ever-present possibility and practice integral to contemporary as well as past modes of rule and state making. States and their allies make discursive use of notions of sovereignty to legitimise violence and displacement against selective citizens in the service of different projects at multiple scales. Such practices are themselves a means of producing and pe…
Introduction
This special issue considers how contemporary forms of displacement in southern Africa may be approached and analysed in terms of multiple ‘political economies of displacement’. Drawing insight from classic concepts of political economy, but without adhering to the more rigid aspects of these frameworks, the five studies that comprise this collection explore how certain values related to identity, violence, movement and belonging may be generated…
Local Politics and the Dynamics of Property in Africa - By Christian Lund
Introduction. Displacing Zimbabwe
Since early 2000, political violence and dramatic economic contraction have displaced people within and beyond Zimbabwe's borders on an extraordinary scale.1 The politicised state intrusions into Z
Ambivalent Mobilities
One of the effects of the crisis in Zimbabwe since 2000 has been both the direct and indirect internal displacement of farmers, farm workers and innumerable others for both political and economic reasons, as well as the movement of millions of Zimbabweans across borders into neighbouring countries and further afield. Among some of the reluctant cross-border migrants in the region is a relatively small number (around 80 families) of mostly white Z…
Whiteness in Zimbabwe. Race, landscape, and the problem of belonging
Becoming Mozambicanised
This article explores the ways in which displaced Zimbabweans who migrated to Mozambique’s Manica Province in the 2000s in the wake of political and economic crisis, constructed a largely unreflective discursive dichotomy between remembered ‘order’ in Zimbabwe and perceived ‘disorder’ in Mozambique. It does so through the lens of two empirical domains of practice: that of public policy, and that of production and enterprise. Unpacking the complex…
Urban Displacement and Resettlement in Zimbabwe
This article examines what urban displacement and resettlement can reveal about the nature of, and co-constitutive relationships among, property, authority, and citizenship. It focuses on an unusual case in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, where long-term illegal squatters living under constant threat of violent displacement by various local and national authorities were formally resettled by the Bulawayo City Council on peri-urban plots with houses. What sur…
Certifications of citizenship
A focus on certifications of citizenship as a range of inter-related practices of identity classification, categorisation, registration and validation, provides productive opportunities to explore the many ways that different authorities and/or different citizens engage with both the meaning and materiality of identity documents. At the heart of such practices is a complex politics of recognition that in turn is linked to the political economies …
Juxtacity
Political science (12 works) · Sociology (10 works) · African studies and sociopolitical issues (9 works) · Politics (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Urban and Rural Development Challenges (7 works) · African history and culture studies (6 works) · Economics (5 works) · Geography (5 works)