On the margins of Zimbabwe’s expanding capital Harare, the ruling ZANU–PF party promotes a view of access to urban land, housing and security as ‘gift’, conditional on demonstrations of party loyalty. This article discusses contestation over this form of partisan citizenship, making the following broader arguments. First, it argues that the notion of partisan citizenship draws attention to the role of party political affiliation as a source of differential entitlements in illiberal democracies, countering a tendency to emphasise ethno-regional, racialized or religious communal identities as the primary sources of graduated citizenship in Africa. Second, it casts clientelist subjection as a contextual and contentious domain of ideas and acti...
The politics of urban control has revolved around centralisation since independence in 1980. However...
There has been significant debate about the land occupations which occurred from the year 2000 in Zi...
This project examines how discourses on democratization in Zimbabwe, a country transitioning from co...
On the margins of Zimbabwe’s expanding capital Harare, the ruling ZANU–PF party promotes a view of a...
This chapter explores the interface between informality and national politics in Harare, the capital...
The thesis offers a theoretical and empirical account of how and why ideas and practices of citizens...
This paper is a case in distributive politics (and hinges on land-based power dynamics) arguing tha...
This paper is a case in distributive politics (and hinges on land-based power dynamics) arguing tha...
Housing cooperatives have emerged in the context of housing challenges in the urban areas as a strat...
This article develops the concept of “urban frontier” to explore conflicts over state regularisation...
This paper explores the interaction between different scales of governance and performative citizens...
From 2000, ZANU(PF) suffered repeated electoral defeat in the cities and lost control of municipalit...
Zimbabwe's current restructuring of land and resource ownership has not only been violent and coerci...
On the basis of a 2008 survey conducted in the Msunduzi municipality in the KwaZulu-Natal province, ...
This article examines changes in Zimbabwean citizenship law since independence, highlighting the exp...
The politics of urban control has revolved around centralisation since independence in 1980. However...
There has been significant debate about the land occupations which occurred from the year 2000 in Zi...
This project examines how discourses on democratization in Zimbabwe, a country transitioning from co...
On the margins of Zimbabwe’s expanding capital Harare, the ruling ZANU–PF party promotes a view of a...
This chapter explores the interface between informality and national politics in Harare, the capital...
The thesis offers a theoretical and empirical account of how and why ideas and practices of citizens...
This paper is a case in distributive politics (and hinges on land-based power dynamics) arguing tha...
This paper is a case in distributive politics (and hinges on land-based power dynamics) arguing tha...
Housing cooperatives have emerged in the context of housing challenges in the urban areas as a strat...
This article develops the concept of “urban frontier” to explore conflicts over state regularisation...
This paper explores the interaction between different scales of governance and performative citizens...
From 2000, ZANU(PF) suffered repeated electoral defeat in the cities and lost control of municipalit...
Zimbabwe's current restructuring of land and resource ownership has not only been violent and coerci...
On the basis of a 2008 survey conducted in the Msunduzi municipality in the KwaZulu-Natal province, ...
This article examines changes in Zimbabwean citizenship law since independence, highlighting the exp...
The politics of urban control has revolved around centralisation since independence in 1980. However...
There has been significant debate about the land occupations which occurred from the year 2000 in Zi...
This project examines how discourses on democratization in Zimbabwe, a country transitioning from co...