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Multi-habitation :
Multi-habitation : urban housing and everyday life in Chitungwiza, Zimbabwe
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- Schlyter, Ann, 1943 (author)
- Gothenburg University,Göteborgs universitet,Nordiska Afrikainstitutet,Institutionen för omvärldsstudier av människans villkor, centrum för globala genusstudier,Department of Environmental and Regional Studies of the Human Condition, Centre for Global Studies
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- ISBN 9171065113
- Uppsala : Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, 2003
- English 77 s.
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Series: Research report, 1104-8425 ; 123
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Abstract
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- This is a study of everyday life and the quality of living in a poor neighbourhood of Chitungwiza, an independent Zimbabwean town about thirty kilometres south of Harare city centre. In the official view, this is a home-ownership neighbourhood. However, there are usually many families living in multi-habitation on each property, and lodgers outnumber owners. Within a restricted area people have to negotiate over, and adapt their use of space. Their ability to do so differs, depending on whether they are owners, tenants or lodgers, women or men, children, adults or elderly, and whether they are gainfully employed or not. The outcome of these negotiations and adaptations decisively affects their feeling of being at home in the house and the neighbourhood. The histories told by the people who are given voice in this report point to housing as highly significant in their coping with poverty, and to multi-habitation as affecting their agency as urban citizens.
Subject headings
- SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP -- Annan samhällsvetenskap -- Genusstudier (hsv//swe)
- SOCIAL SCIENCES -- Other Social Sciences -- Gender Studies (hsv//eng)
- SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP -- Annan samhällsvetenskap -- Tvärvetenskapliga studier inom samhällsvetenskap (hsv//swe)
- SOCIAL SCIENCES -- Other Social Sciences -- Social Sciences Interdisciplinary (hsv//eng)
Keyword
- Urban housing
- Home ownership
- Living conditions
- Zimbabwe
- SOCIAL SCIENCES
- SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP
- urban housing
- Zimbabwe
- Africa
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- vet (subject category)
- rap (subject category)
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