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dc.contributor.authorChirisa, Innocent
dc.contributor.authorBandauko, Elmond
dc.contributor.authorMutsindikwa, Nyasha Takawaira
dc.date.accessioned2017-02-23T20:32:00Z
dc.date.available2017-02-23T20:32:00Z
dc.date.issued2015-08-07
dc.identifier.citationChirisa, I., Bandauko, E. and Mutsindikwa, N. T. (2015). Distributive politics at play in Harare, Zimbabwe: Case for housing cooperatives. Bandung: Journal of the Global South, 2 (1), 1-13.en_US
dc.identifier.issn2198-3534
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10646/2964
dc.description.abstractThis paper is a case in distributive politics (and hinges on land-based power dynamics) arguing that in the absence of state capacity to provide for housing, housing cooperatives have emerged and controlled largely by patronage. In this case, there is exclusion of those individuals, households and families not politically connected; and this has deep and undesired consequences in the management of urban areas in the end. In the Greater Harare urban (and peri-urban) landscape, the housing cooperatives have the power to control their members with respect to the contributions that each member can make in terms of finance and sweat equity (labor). Nevertheless, land as a resource remains a prerogative of the state, which the ZANU PF regime has controlled for a span of more than 30 years now. Housing cooperatives in Harare, as elsewhere in the country, try to identify with ZANU PF as a party identifying with conservativism enshrined in the existing laws (albeit the New Constitution that came about in 2013) and a party advocating for equity in the distribution of the land. Cooperatives have become a tool in which ZANU PF has re-asserted its influence and hegemony.en_US
dc.language.isoen_ZWen_US
dc.publisherSpringer Openen_US
dc.subjectSocial capitalen_US
dc.subjectManipulationen_US
dc.subjectControlen_US
dc.subjectGovernanceen_US
dc.subjectState capacityen_US
dc.subjectHomelessnessen_US
dc.subjectHousing Landen_US
dc.titleDistributive politics at play in Harare, Zimbabwe: Case for housing cooperativesen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.contributor.authoremailchirisa.innocent@gmail.comen_US


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