COVID-19 Lockdowns and the Urban Poor in Harare, Zimbabwe - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook COVID-19 Lockdowns and the Urban Poor in Harare, Zimbabwe write by Johannes Itai Bhanye. This book was released on 2023-12-09. COVID-19 Lockdowns and the Urban Poor in Harare, Zimbabwe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book focuses on the socio-economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and associated lockdowns on the welfare of the urban poor in the city of Harare, Zimbabwe. The authors look through the lenses of the urban health penalty, the right to the city, complexity theory, and distributive justice theory. These four theories help situate the COVID-19 pandemic and its impacts on the urban poor in the theoretical foundations that raise issues of how the poor are affected by disease/health pandemics, due to their living conditions. Uniquely, the authors use remote ethnography tools such as rich texts, video diaries and photo uploads to provide evidence-based stories of how COVID-19 mobility restrictions have affected poor urbanites in Harare. The book concludes that the COVID-19 pandemic mandatory lockdowns have deepened social and spatial inequality among the urban poor, threatening their right to the city. The socio-economic impacts can upsurge poverty, increase unemployment and the risks of hunger and food insecurity, reinforce existing inequalities, and break social harmony in the cities, even past the COVID-19 pandemic period. These socioeconomic impacts must be considered to make just cities for all, from a right-to-the-city perspective. The authors recommend that mandatory COVID-19 lockdowns should not only be treated as a law-and-order operation but as a medical intervention to stem the spread of the virus backed by measures to safeguard the livelihoods of the urban poor while also protecting the economy. This means governments should provide social safety nets to informal sector operators whose income-generating activities are affected the most during the time of emergencies like COVID-19. Planners and policymakers should re-envision pandemic-resilient cities that are just, equitable, resilient, and sustainable.
Governing the Poor in Harare, Zimbabwe
Governing the Poor in Harare, Zimbabwe - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Governing the Poor in Harare, Zimbabwe write by Amin Y. Kamete. This book was released on 2002. Governing the Poor in Harare, Zimbabwe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is a study of the ‘terrain of urban governance’, using areas of Zimbabwe’s biggest city Harare as case studies. It presents and discusses sets of perceptions of poverty and the poor which influence policy development and decisionmaking among urban ‘governors’. Kamete shows the effects of positive as well as negative perceptions of the poor. He also problematizes more conventional understandings of poverty and includes into his own conceptual understanding dimensions of deficient access to participation and citizenship. He shows that the relationship between power and powerlessness among the poor is much more complex than is sometimes assumed.
COVID-19 Manifestation, Ramifications and Future Prospects for Zimbabwe
COVID-19 Manifestation, Ramifications and Future Prospects for Zimbabwe - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook COVID-19 Manifestation, Ramifications and Future Prospects for Zimbabwe write by Madanha Rusero. This book was released on 2021-05-19. COVID-19 Manifestation, Ramifications and Future Prospects for Zimbabwe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The advent of Coronavirus (also known as COVID-19) pandemic has caused much distress, despondence, fear and pandemonium across all nations of the world. In Zimbabwe, the emergence of the virus sent a chilling message of insecurity and need for conscientiousness and diligence, as the virus decimated humankind amid untold suffering. The pandemic came as a litmus test for the integrity and meticulousness of all the so-called professionals and institutions of integrity across the country, challenging them to stand equal to their tasks, titles and claimed astuteness. For Zimbabwe and Africa in general, the manifestation and ramifications of COVID-19, has raised so many questions around issues of peoples welfare and innovative research, especially amid the reality that the country is dependent on charity and donations from well-wishers for the vaccines it needs, over and above the modest amount it can purchase. This reality and related challenges pose interesting research questions addressed in this volume. A central question on the possibility and extent of home-grown solutions inspired by and tailored to the needs and predicaments of Zimbabwe and the African continent. The richness of the book is in the firsthand eyewitness accounts of scholars caught up in the COVID-19 challenge. The researchers in this volume have sought to capture developments, insights and evolutions as they unfold and progress. The book is handy for scholars in policy studies, risk and disaster management, social anthropology, political science, development studies, African studies and decolonial fields of studies.
Making Sense of Planning and Development for the Post-Pandemic Cities
Making Sense of Planning and Development for the Post-Pandemic Cities - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Making Sense of Planning and Development for the Post-Pandemic Cities write by Kh Md Nahiduzzaman. This book was released on . Making Sense of Planning and Development for the Post-Pandemic Cities available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Governance Challenges During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Africa
Governance Challenges During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Africa - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Governance Challenges During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Africa write by Nirmala Dorasamy. This book was released on 2022-10-31. Governance Challenges During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Africa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book presents insights into the governance challenge associated with the management of the lockdown measures in relation to the welfare of citizens in selected African states. The intention of the project is to present a critical analysis of the effectiveness and the consequences of the measures adopted by the government of these African countries to contain further spread of the virus, within the context of existing governance challenges in the management of the public sector. This will expose the contradictions in the implementation of public policy and the actualization of its intendment for the promotion of good governance and the welfare of citizens. The benefit thereof is the feasibility of arousing further intellectual engagements on the need for effective management of public sector with strong infrastructural support for the good of all in Africa.
