Happy Mathew Tirivangasi
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 4156566 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Happy Mathew Tirivangasi |
| PRENOMES | Happy Mathew |
| SOBRENOME | Tirivangasi |
| ASSINATURA | TIRIVANGASI H M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Limpopo |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1353-6635 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 14 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 10 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 14 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2019 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Integrating mental health aspects into disaster and climate risk management strategies
Introduction Climate-related disasters increasingly threaten mental well-being, yet mental health remains insufficiently integrated into disaster risk reduction and climate change response strategies in many low- and middle-income countries, including Zimbabwe. Drawing on lessons from Cyclone Idai, this study explored the mental health impacts of the disaster and assessed the extent to which mental health aspects were incorporated into disaster p…
Private sector agency in low-carbon transitions
The growing involvement of private firms in low-carbon transitions is reshaping how energy security is governed across the Global South. Yet the strategic role of corporate actors within hybrid governance systems remains insufficiently examined. This study investigates how private companies influence energy transitions through investment strategies, sustainability commitments, and engagement with evolving policy frameworks. The analysis integrate…
Reclaiming Indigenous knowledge for sustainability
An Afrocentric approach to climate change adaptation
Purpose The effectiveness of scientific seasonal weather forecasts as a tool to help rural communities in Zimbabwe make decisions is under continuous debate. This persists due to rural communities' ongoing difficulty accessing scientific weather forecasts, early warning systems and remote sensing technologies. As a result, rural people continue to rely on the repository of their indigenous knowledge systems for decision-making, seasonal predictio…
The interplay of Christianity and Ndau African traditional religion in shaping climate change adaptation in Zimbabwe
This paper utilizes Afrocentric tenets to explore how the Ndau people's shift from African traditional religion to Christianity affects their understanding and experience of climate change. Set against recent climate‐induced disasters in Chimanimani, the study employs Afrocentric qualitative methods, including talking cycles and philosophical sagacity interviews, to gather data from household heads and village leaders. Findings indicate that trad…
Navigating planetary human entanglements through climate change-induced human mobility in Zimbabwe
The central question of the 21st century revolves around increasing human entanglement. Humans are finding it increasingly difficult to survive in the changing environment caused by climate-induced disasters such as floods, droughts, storms, and heat waves. In Zimbabwe, this has led to the emergence of human mobility as an adaptation strategy, with individuals (indigenous and local) relocating to areas offering more favorable economic and environ…
Exploring Humanitarian response strategies in the aftermath of disasters induced by climate change in Zimbabwe
This study explored the humanitarian responses to the scourges of climate change-related disasters in the Chimanimani district of Zimbabwe in southern Africa. This is against the backdrop of climate-induced disasters that have plagued the region before, with some of its consequences visible in the present day. Eleven humanitarian organisations that can aid victims of Cyclone Idai in 2019 were selected through purposive and convenience sampling. I…
Challenges faced by humanitarian organisations in rendering services in the aftermath of Cyclone Idai in Chimanimani, Zimbabwe
This paper explores the challenges faced by humanitarian organizations in implementing disaster management services in the aftermath of Cyclone Idai in Chimanimani district. The tropical cyclone left footprints of humanitarian crises that overwhelmed the capacity of the Zimbabwean government and called for the intervention of international and local non-governmental organizations. This paper utilised the qualitative research methods guided by the…
Women and Economic Production
Persistent drought and economic collapse in Zimbabwe have seen most, if not all, rural women shifting from the receiving end to the giving end. Rural women have since initiated several livelihood activities to make ends meet, as they are the most vulnerable whenever they are left to look after children at home. The paper aims to examine rural livelihoods and how they contribute to economic production in Ward 5 of Bikita district. A mixed design i…
Power Sharing as a Tool for Resolving Electoral Violence
This paper uses Hartzell and Hoddie’s four dimensions of power-sharing to analyse the implementation of the 2008 power-sharing in Zimbabwe and its impact on electoral violence. It interrogates the resolving of the Zimbabwean electoral violence through the use of power-sharing deal between the opposition and the ruling party. The theoretical explanations why electoral violence would occur in a country ruled by an authoritarian leadership suggests …
Implications of the Marginalisation of Social Sciences in the Fight against the Covid 19 Pandemic
In the history of pandemics that plagued humanity, COVID-19 represents a catastrophic global health crisis. The pandemic has placed a huge burden on health care systems around the globe. Due to its easy transmission from one individual to the other, COVID-19 prevention require large scale behaviour change. Through the recommendations of the WHO, governments across the world have enacted policies of social distancing, national lockdown, wearing fa…
Revisiting Electoral Violence in Zimbabwe
This study explores theoretical contradictions with realism, regarding the actors or perpetrators of violence when explaining the causes of electoral violence in the Zimbabwean context. These perspectives can be divided into two contesting schools of thought. The first group is mainly made up of rational theories and holds the position that, autocratic governments use electoral violence as a way of influencing electoral outcome. The second positi…
Social Work Practice
Mandelafying the public service in South Africa
A surfeit of service delivery disapprovals in South Africa is a clear reflection of the failure of the Public Service of South from the local, provincial, and national government to effectively and efficiently deliver service to its citizenry. The rise in a dissatisfied citizenry stems from a precise social realization, which envisions the failure of the state to deliver services to the public in an impartial, responsible, translucent, and befitt…
Social Work Practice
The interplay of Christianity and Ndau African traditional religion in shaping climate change adaptation in Zimbabwe
This paper utilizes Afrocentric tenets to explore how the Ndau people's shift from African traditional religion to Christianity affects their understanding and experience of climate change. Set against recent climate‐induced disasters in Chimanimani, the study employs Afrocentric qualitative methods, including talking cycles and philosophical sagacity interviews, to gather data from household heads and village leaders. Findings indicate that trad…
Navigating planetary human entanglements through climate change-induced human mobility in Zimbabwe
The central question of the 21st century revolves around increasing human entanglement. Humans are finding it increasingly difficult to survive in the changing environment caused by climate-induced disasters such as floods, droughts, storms, and heat waves. In Zimbabwe, this has led to the emergence of human mobility as an adaptation strategy, with individuals (indigenous and local) relocating to areas offering more favorable economic and environ…
Revisiting Electoral Violence in Zimbabwe
This study explores theoretical contradictions with realism, regarding the actors or perpetrators of violence when explaining the causes of electoral violence in the Zimbabwean context. These perspectives can be divided into two contesting schools of thought. The first group is mainly made up of rational theories and holds the position that, autocratic governments use electoral violence as a way of influencing electoral outcome. The second positi…
Mandelafying the public service in South Africa
A surfeit of service delivery disapprovals in South Africa is a clear reflection of the failure of the Public Service of South from the local, provincial, and national government to effectively and efficiently deliver service to its citizenry. The rise in a dissatisfied citizenry stems from a precise social realization, which envisions the failure of the state to deliver services to the public in an impartial, responsible, translucent, and befitt…
Mandelafying the public service in South Africa
A surfeit of service delivery disapprovals in South Africa is a clear reflection of the failure of the Public Service of South from the local, provincial, and national government to effectively and efficiently deliver service to its citizenry. The rise in a dissatisfied citizenry stems from a precise social realization, which envisions the failure of the state to deliver services to the public in an impartial, responsible, translucent, and befitt…
Women and Economic Production
Persistent drought and economic collapse in Zimbabwe have seen most, if not all, rural women shifting from the receiving end to the giving end. Rural women have since initiated several livelihood activities to make ends meet, as they are the most vulnerable whenever they are left to look after children at home. The paper aims to examine rural livelihoods and how they contribute to economic production in Ward 5 of Bikita district. A mixed design i…
Power Sharing as a Tool for Resolving Electoral Violence
This paper uses Hartzell and Hoddie’s four dimensions of power-sharing to analyse the implementation of the 2008 power-sharing in Zimbabwe and its impact on electoral violence. It interrogates the resolving of the Zimbabwean electoral violence through the use of power-sharing deal between the opposition and the ruling party. The theoretical explanations why electoral violence would occur in a country ruled by an authoritarian leadership suggests …
Implications of the Marginalisation of Social Sciences in the Fight against the Covid 19 Pandemic
In the history of pandemics that plagued humanity, COVID-19 represents a catastrophic global health crisis. The pandemic has placed a huge burden on health care systems around the globe. Due to its easy transmission from one individual to the other, COVID-19 prevention require large scale behaviour change. Through the recommendations of the WHO, governments across the world have enacted policies of social distancing, national lockdown, wearing fa…
Revisiting Electoral Violence in Zimbabwe
This study explores theoretical contradictions with realism, regarding the actors or perpetrators of violence when explaining the causes of electoral violence in the Zimbabwean context. These perspectives can be divided into two contesting schools of thought. The first group is mainly made up of rational theories and holds the position that, autocratic governments use electoral violence as a way of influencing electoral outcome. The second positi…
Social Work Practice
Challenges faced by humanitarian organisations in rendering services in the aftermath of Cyclone Idai in Chimanimani, Zimbabwe
This paper explores the challenges faced by humanitarian organizations in implementing disaster management services in the aftermath of Cyclone Idai in Chimanimani district. The tropical cyclone left footprints of humanitarian crises that overwhelmed the capacity of the Zimbabwean government and called for the intervention of international and local non-governmental organizations. This paper utilised the qualitative research methods guided by the…
Exploring Humanitarian response strategies in the aftermath of disasters induced by climate change in Zimbabwe
This study explored the humanitarian responses to the scourges of climate change-related disasters in the Chimanimani district of Zimbabwe in southern Africa. This is against the backdrop of climate-induced disasters that have plagued the region before, with some of its consequences visible in the present day. Eleven humanitarian organisations that can aid victims of Cyclone Idai in 2019 were selected through purposive and convenience sampling. I…
An Afrocentric approach to climate change adaptation
Purpose The effectiveness of scientific seasonal weather forecasts as a tool to help rural communities in Zimbabwe make decisions is under continuous debate. This persists due to rural communities' ongoing difficulty accessing scientific weather forecasts, early warning systems and remote sensing technologies. As a result, rural people continue to rely on the repository of their indigenous knowledge systems for decision-making, seasonal predictio…
The interplay of Christianity and Ndau African traditional religion in shaping climate change adaptation in Zimbabwe
This paper utilizes Afrocentric tenets to explore how the Ndau people's shift from African traditional religion to Christianity affects their understanding and experience of climate change. Set against recent climate‐induced disasters in Chimanimani, the study employs Afrocentric qualitative methods, including talking cycles and philosophical sagacity interviews, to gather data from household heads and village leaders. Findings indicate that trad…
Navigating planetary human entanglements through climate change-induced human mobility in Zimbabwe
The central question of the 21st century revolves around increasing human entanglement. Humans are finding it increasingly difficult to survive in the changing environment caused by climate-induced disasters such as floods, droughts, storms, and heat waves. In Zimbabwe, this has led to the emergence of human mobility as an adaptation strategy, with individuals (indigenous and local) relocating to areas offering more favorable economic and environ…
Integrating mental health aspects into disaster and climate risk management strategies
Introduction Climate-related disasters increasingly threaten mental well-being, yet mental health remains insufficiently integrated into disaster risk reduction and climate change response strategies in many low- and middle-income countries, including Zimbabwe. Drawing on lessons from Cyclone Idai, this study explored the mental health impacts of the disaster and assessed the extent to which mental health aspects were incorporated into disaster p…
Private sector agency in low-carbon transitions
The growing involvement of private firms in low-carbon transitions is reshaping how energy security is governed across the Global South. Yet the strategic role of corporate actors within hybrid governance systems remains insufficiently examined. This study investigates how private companies influence energy transitions through investment strategies, sustainability commitments, and engagement with evolving policy frameworks. The analysis integrate…
Reclaiming Indigenous knowledge for sustainability
Sociology (9 obras) · Political science (8 obras) · African studies and sociopolitical issues (6 obras) · Economics (6 obras) · Climate change (5 obras) · Disaster Management and Resilience (4 obras) · Geography (4 obras) · Law (4 obras) · Law (4 obras) · Agriculture (3 obras)