Beacon Mbiba
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 96374 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Beacon Mbiba |
| PRENOMES | Beacon |
| SOBRENOME | Mbiba |
| ASSINATURA | MBIBA B |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Oxford Brookes University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4667-4671 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 17 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 75 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 17 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1994 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Exploring the challenges and potential of implementing community solar initiatives into Egypt’s urban subsidized low-income housing
The mystery of recurrent housing demolitions in urban Zimbabwe
This paper reflects on how to interpret the dearth of radical activism in Zimbabwe’s peri-urban areas: why Zimbabwe’s urban ‘subalterns’ do not mobilize against the recurrent heart-wrenching demolitions of their informal settlements housing. It contributes to the understanding of how politics in context is a major determinant of informal urban and peri-urban developments in which working classes, middle classes, elites and the state are major act…
Rising to the occasion
By early 2021, The World Bank was indicating that the massive COVID-19 induced declines in remittance flows it had predicted in the previous year had not materialised; actual declines were smaller and shorter term than expected. In some cases like that for Zimbabwe, there were significant increases. It argued that coronavirus pandemic lock down policies led to a shift from use of informal to formal recorded money transfer channels. However, given…
Circumventing the investor-friendly city and displaceability in Maputo’s street economy space
This article explores how street economy workers are resisting the condition of ‘displaceability’ imposed upon them via exclusionary market-led redevelopment and state-municipal practices in Maputo, Mozambique. In particular, it focuses on how street and market workers engage in forms of ‘street politics’ to build their rights to produce, to inhabit and to work in public spaces from which they are being excluded. Drawing on Yiftachel’s notion of …
At the deep end
Discursive analysis of this community data shows that health and social care worker experiences included recurrent and widely reported themes such as discrimination in allocation of equipment, moral injury and trauma that may lead to long- term mental health problems. These results confirm diversity of experiences amongst health care professionals when compared to other ethnic groups and by gender. They reinforce the case for monitoring, for afte…
Harare
Fifteen years after Zimbabwe’s political independence and Black majority rule, Rakodi (1995) concluded that Harare, the capital city, remained quintessentially a settler-colonial city. Then, Harare had not yet experienced the full impacts of ‘neo-liberalism’ as in Nairobi or the suburbanisation of office and commercial development as in Johannesburg. In view of significant political economy transformations since the 1990s, this paper aims to prov…
Idioms of Accumulation
David Harvey's notion of 'accumulation by dispossession' has inspired a wide range of studies in different places. But it has hardly registered in the area of urban land grabbing in Africa and what the role of local capital has been in these processes. In this article, I use archival data, field observations and insights from key informant interviews in Harare to examine how the 1990s neoliberalism and the post-1999 Zimbabwe crisis created new op…
Urban solid waste characteristics and household appetite for separation at source in Eastern and Southern Africa
Zimbabwean Diaspora politics in Britain
Zimbabwe features highly in western media, in African scholarship and in political debates at international fora. However, little attention has been paid to Zimbabwean Diaspora politics as an aspect of the ongoing transformations and one whose analysis can help understand the multifaceted changes and challenges confronting the Zimbabwean community. Using a critical moment approach and drawing on key informant interviews, cyberspace materials and …
Beyond Abject Spaces
The concept of space in relation to the experiences of African immigrants in Britain has been the focus of recent geographical and development studies with Joann McGregor’s notion of abject spaces the most provocative. This paper considers how the concept of abject spaces can be extended beyond the existence of the marginal, illegal and undocumented immigrants to explore opportunities for entrepreneurship within and beyond these spaces. Based on …
Zimbabwe's New Diaspora
Re-living the Second Chimurenga
History is predominantly the story of the powerful. But in these memoirs, through skilful use of language and respect for the reader's intelligence, Fay Chung has succeeded in keeping her own position of power out of sight. Using a personal narrative, she brings to life familiar ground in Zimbabwe's racial past, the nationalist struggle, and how the ‘revolution lost its way’. Personalities such as Tongogara, Ian Smith and Robert Mugabe are import…
Untold stories
The Commission for Africa (CFA) and its report launched on 11 March 2005 has been described as a significant global development initiative and, from the British perspective, as one of the most complicated processes in public policy making seen in recent times. It sought to mobilize and reconfigure global power and in particular to shape global thinking and actions on development policy towards Africa. However, the CFA (and the G8 Gleneagles Summi…
Contentious development
This paper reviews the current state of literature on peri-urban research in sub-Saharan Africa. This research has been led by multi-lateral and bilateral development agencies that have sought to find a role in urban development. The review finds that the donor-driven research has remained largely descriptive. It has neither emphasized nor theorized the rapid and contentious peri-urban transformations associated with globalization. The paper iden…
Communal Land Rights in Zimbabwe as State Sanction and Social Control
This article takes a historical approach to argue that communal lands in Zimbabwe are a construct inherited from colonial days (prior to 1980) which governments in post-colonial Zimbabwe have found convenient to maintain rather than dismantle. The construct is not only a convenient framework for the delivery of collective consumption goods but in turn it enables the government to subtly use communal lands as a framework for social control, especi…
Security of tenure, development victims, and the limits of environmental impact assessment in Zimbabwe's communal lands
With specific reference to the case of granite mining in the Mutoko District in Zimbabwe, the author argues that while the state continues to hold rights to communal land, and freehold tenure is prohibited, Zimbabweans are being denied rights: in this case, a say in, and compensation for, damage to `their' land caused by mining. The author compares the current injustice to the `inequitable bias' with which tenure was distributed in the 1950s. Thi…
Institutional responses to uncontrolled urban cultivation in Harare
Institutional responses to uncontrolled urban cultivation in Harare: prohibitive or accommodative? reviews local government's response to uncontrolled crop cultivation within the urban boundary of Harare. The author reviews institutional responses to urban agriculture in Harare during the colonial period and since Independence in 1980. The final section comments on why local authorities find it difficult to manage urban agriculture effectively an…
Contentious development
This paper reviews the current state of literature on peri-urban research in sub-Saharan Africa. This research has been led by multi-lateral and bilateral development agencies that have sought to find a role in urban development. The review finds that the donor-driven research has remained largely descriptive. It has neither emphasized nor theorized the rapid and contentious peri-urban transformations associated with globalization. The paper iden…
Idioms of Accumulation
David Harvey's notion of 'accumulation by dispossession' has inspired a wide range of studies in different places. But it has hardly registered in the area of urban land grabbing in Africa and what the role of local capital has been in these processes. In this article, I use archival data, field observations and insights from key informant interviews in Harare to examine how the 1990s neoliberalism and the post-1999 Zimbabwe crisis created new op…
Beyond Abject Spaces
The concept of space in relation to the experiences of African immigrants in Britain has been the focus of recent geographical and development studies with Joann McGregor’s notion of abject spaces the most provocative. This paper considers how the concept of abject spaces can be extended beyond the existence of the marginal, illegal and undocumented immigrants to explore opportunities for entrepreneurship within and beyond these spaces. Based on …
Harare
Fifteen years after Zimbabwe’s political independence and Black majority rule, Rakodi (1995) concluded that Harare, the capital city, remained quintessentially a settler-colonial city. Then, Harare had not yet experienced the full impacts of ‘neo-liberalism’ as in Nairobi or the suburbanisation of office and commercial development as in Johannesburg. In view of significant political economy transformations since the 1990s, this paper aims to prov…
Institutional responses to uncontrolled urban cultivation in Harare
Institutional responses to uncontrolled urban cultivation in Harare: prohibitive or accommodative? reviews local government's response to uncontrolled crop cultivation within the urban boundary of Harare. The author reviews institutional responses to urban agriculture in Harare during the colonial period and since Independence in 1980. The final section comments on why local authorities find it difficult to manage urban agriculture effectively an…
Zimbabwean Diaspora politics in Britain
Zimbabwe features highly in western media, in African scholarship and in political debates at international fora. However, little attention has been paid to Zimbabwean Diaspora politics as an aspect of the ongoing transformations and one whose analysis can help understand the multifaceted changes and challenges confronting the Zimbabwean community. Using a critical moment approach and drawing on key informant interviews, cyberspace materials and …
Security of tenure, development victims, and the limits of environmental impact assessment in Zimbabwe's communal lands
With specific reference to the case of granite mining in the Mutoko District in Zimbabwe, the author argues that while the state continues to hold rights to communal land, and freehold tenure is prohibited, Zimbabweans are being denied rights: in this case, a say in, and compensation for, damage to `their' land caused by mining. The author compares the current injustice to the `inequitable bias' with which tenure was distributed in the 1950s. Thi…
Rising to the occasion
By early 2021, The World Bank was indicating that the massive COVID-19 induced declines in remittance flows it had predicted in the previous year had not materialised; actual declines were smaller and shorter term than expected. In some cases like that for Zimbabwe, there were significant increases. It argued that coronavirus pandemic lock down policies led to a shift from use of informal to formal recorded money transfer channels. However, given…
Circumventing the investor-friendly city and displaceability in Maputo’s street economy space
This article explores how street economy workers are resisting the condition of ‘displaceability’ imposed upon them via exclusionary market-led redevelopment and state-municipal practices in Maputo, Mozambique. In particular, it focuses on how street and market workers engage in forms of ‘street politics’ to build their rights to produce, to inhabit and to work in public spaces from which they are being excluded. Drawing on Yiftachel’s notion of …
At the deep end
Discursive analysis of this community data shows that health and social care worker experiences included recurrent and widely reported themes such as discrimination in allocation of equipment, moral injury and trauma that may lead to long- term mental health problems. These results confirm diversity of experiences amongst health care professionals when compared to other ethnic groups and by gender. They reinforce the case for monitoring, for afte…
Urban solid waste characteristics and household appetite for separation at source in Eastern and Southern Africa
Communal Land Rights in Zimbabwe as State Sanction and Social Control
This article takes a historical approach to argue that communal lands in Zimbabwe are a construct inherited from colonial days (prior to 1980) which governments in post-colonial Zimbabwe have found convenient to maintain rather than dismantle. The construct is not only a convenient framework for the delivery of collective consumption goods but in turn it enables the government to subtly use communal lands as a framework for social control, especi…
Institutional responses to uncontrolled urban cultivation in Harare
Institutional responses to uncontrolled urban cultivation in Harare: prohibitive or accommodative? reviews local government's response to uncontrolled crop cultivation within the urban boundary of Harare. The author reviews institutional responses to urban agriculture in Harare during the colonial period and since Independence in 1980. The final section comments on why local authorities find it difficult to manage urban agriculture effectively an…
Security of tenure, development victims, and the limits of environmental impact assessment in Zimbabwe's communal lands
With specific reference to the case of granite mining in the Mutoko District in Zimbabwe, the author argues that while the state continues to hold rights to communal land, and freehold tenure is prohibited, Zimbabweans are being denied rights: in this case, a say in, and compensation for, damage to `their' land caused by mining. The author compares the current injustice to the `inequitable bias' with which tenure was distributed in the 1950s. Thi…
Communal Land Rights in Zimbabwe as State Sanction and Social Control
This article takes a historical approach to argue that communal lands in Zimbabwe are a construct inherited from colonial days (prior to 1980) which governments in post-colonial Zimbabwe have found convenient to maintain rather than dismantle. The construct is not only a convenient framework for the delivery of collective consumption goods but in turn it enables the government to subtly use communal lands as a framework for social control, especi…
Contentious development
This paper reviews the current state of literature on peri-urban research in sub-Saharan Africa. This research has been led by multi-lateral and bilateral development agencies that have sought to find a role in urban development. The review finds that the donor-driven research has remained largely descriptive. It has neither emphasized nor theorized the rapid and contentious peri-urban transformations associated with globalization. The paper iden…
Untold stories
The Commission for Africa (CFA) and its report launched on 11 March 2005 has been described as a significant global development initiative and, from the British perspective, as one of the most complicated processes in public policy making seen in recent times. It sought to mobilize and reconfigure global power and in particular to shape global thinking and actions on development policy towards Africa. However, the CFA (and the G8 Gleneagles Summi…
Re-living the Second Chimurenga
History is predominantly the story of the powerful. But in these memoirs, through skilful use of language and respect for the reader's intelligence, Fay Chung has succeeded in keeping her own position of power out of sight. Using a personal narrative, she brings to life familiar ground in Zimbabwe's racial past, the nationalist struggle, and how the ‘revolution lost its way’. Personalities such as Tongogara, Ian Smith and Robert Mugabe are import…
Zimbabwe's New Diaspora
Beyond Abject Spaces
The concept of space in relation to the experiences of African immigrants in Britain has been the focus of recent geographical and development studies with Joann McGregor’s notion of abject spaces the most provocative. This paper considers how the concept of abject spaces can be extended beyond the existence of the marginal, illegal and undocumented immigrants to explore opportunities for entrepreneurship within and beyond these spaces. Based on …
Zimbabwean Diaspora politics in Britain
Zimbabwe features highly in western media, in African scholarship and in political debates at international fora. However, little attention has been paid to Zimbabwean Diaspora politics as an aspect of the ongoing transformations and one whose analysis can help understand the multifaceted changes and challenges confronting the Zimbabwean community. Using a critical moment approach and drawing on key informant interviews, cyberspace materials and …
Urban solid waste characteristics and household appetite for separation at source in Eastern and Southern Africa
Harare
Fifteen years after Zimbabwe’s political independence and Black majority rule, Rakodi (1995) concluded that Harare, the capital city, remained quintessentially a settler-colonial city. Then, Harare had not yet experienced the full impacts of ‘neo-liberalism’ as in Nairobi or the suburbanisation of office and commercial development as in Johannesburg. In view of significant political economy transformations since the 1990s, this paper aims to prov…
Idioms of Accumulation
David Harvey's notion of 'accumulation by dispossession' has inspired a wide range of studies in different places. But it has hardly registered in the area of urban land grabbing in Africa and what the role of local capital has been in these processes. In this article, I use archival data, field observations and insights from key informant interviews in Harare to examine how the 1990s neoliberalism and the post-1999 Zimbabwe crisis created new op…
At the deep end
Discursive analysis of this community data shows that health and social care worker experiences included recurrent and widely reported themes such as discrimination in allocation of equipment, moral injury and trauma that may lead to long- term mental health problems. These results confirm diversity of experiences amongst health care professionals when compared to other ethnic groups and by gender. They reinforce the case for monitoring, for afte…
The mystery of recurrent housing demolitions in urban Zimbabwe
This paper reflects on how to interpret the dearth of radical activism in Zimbabwe’s peri-urban areas: why Zimbabwe’s urban ‘subalterns’ do not mobilize against the recurrent heart-wrenching demolitions of their informal settlements housing. It contributes to the understanding of how politics in context is a major determinant of informal urban and peri-urban developments in which working classes, middle classes, elites and the state are major act…
Rising to the occasion
By early 2021, The World Bank was indicating that the massive COVID-19 induced declines in remittance flows it had predicted in the previous year had not materialised; actual declines were smaller and shorter term than expected. In some cases like that for Zimbabwe, there were significant increases. It argued that coronavirus pandemic lock down policies led to a shift from use of informal to formal recorded money transfer channels. However, given…
Circumventing the investor-friendly city and displaceability in Maputo’s street economy space
This article explores how street economy workers are resisting the condition of ‘displaceability’ imposed upon them via exclusionary market-led redevelopment and state-municipal practices in Maputo, Mozambique. In particular, it focuses on how street and market workers engage in forms of ‘street politics’ to build their rights to produce, to inhabit and to work in public spaces from which they are being excluded. Drawing on Yiftachel’s notion of …
Exploring the challenges and potential of implementing community solar initiatives into Egypt’s urban subsidized low-income housing
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