239
Views
8
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Articles

Planning scholarship and the fetish about planning in Southern Africa: the case of Zimbabwe’s operation Murambatsvina

References

  • ActionAid International. 2005. The Impact of Operation Murambatsvina/Restore Order in Zimbabwe. Harare: Action Aid/Zimbabwe Peace Trust/ Combined Harare Residents Association.
  • Alexander, Peter., Lekgowa Thapelo, Mmope Botsang, Sinwell Luke, and Bongani Xezwi. 2013. Marikana: Voices From South Africa’s Mining Massacre. Athens: Ohio University Press.
  • Auret, Michael. 1994. Churu Farm: A Chronicle of Despair. Harare: Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace.
  • Bachrach, Peter, and Morton S. Baratz. 1962. “Two Faces of Power.” The American Political Science Review 56 (4): 947–952.
  • Campbell, Tom. 2014. “For the Sake of Our Cities, Its Time to Make Planning Cool Again.” The Guardian, London, November 10, 2014. Accessed June 28, 2017. https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2014/nov/10/-sp-cities-town-planning-cool-architects.
  • Chambers, Robert. 1984. Rural Development: Putting the Last First. London: Longman.
  • COHRE/ZLHR. 2007. Operation Murambatsvina: A Crime Against Humanity. An Independent Legal Opinion Whether the 2005 Operation Murambatsvina Forced Evictions Constituted a Crime Against Humanity Under the Rome Statute. Geneva: Centre for Housing Rights and Evictions (COHRE) Africa Programme and Harare: Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR).
  • Dant, Tim. 1996. “Fetishism and the Social Value of Objects.” Sociological Review 44 (3): 495–516.
  • Dobrucka, Lucia. 2017. “When Planners Depend on Powerful Actors: Automatism Versus Intentions.” Planning Theory 17 (2): 234–252. https://doi-org.oxfordbrookes.idm.oclc.org/10.1177/1473095217698725.
  • Ellen, Roy. 1988. “Fetishism.” Man, News Series 23 (2): 213–235.
  • Fegue, Cyril. 2007. “Informal Settlements’ Planning Theories and Policy Making in sub-Saharan Africa- From ‘Site’ to ‘People’: A Critical Evaluation of Operations ‘Murambatsvina’ and ‘Garikai’ in Zimbabwe.” International Journal of Sustainable Development 2 (4): 445–460.
  • Flyvbjerg, Bent, and Tim Richardson. 2002. “Planning and Foucault: In Search of the Dark Side of Planning Theory.” In Planning Futures: New Directions for Planning Theory, edited by Philip Allmendinger, and Mark Tewdwr-Jones, 44–62. London: Routledge.
  • Fontein, Joost. 2009. “Anticipating the Tsunami: Rumours, Planning and the Arbitrary State in Zimbabwe.” Journal of the International African Institute 79 (3): 369–398.
  • Gordon, Colin. 1991. “Governmental Rationality: An Introduction.” In The Foucault Effect: Studies in Governmentality, edited by Graham Burchell, Colin Gordon, and Peter Miller, 1–51. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
  • GoZ. 1994a. “Regional Town and Country Planning (Use Group Regulations), Statutory Instrument (S.I.) 216 of 1994.” Government of Zimbabwe, Harare, Government Printer, 30th September 1994.
  • GoZ. 1994b. “Regional Town and Country Planning (Subdivision and Consolidation, Amendment Regulations Number 2) Statutory Instrument 271 of 1994.” Government of Zimbabwe, Harare, Government Printer, 11th November 1994.
  • GoZ. 2005. Response by Government of Zimbabwe to the Report by the UN Special Envoy on Operation Murambatsvina/Restore Order, August 2005. Harare: Government of Zimbabwe.
  • Grange, Kristina. 2016. “Planners – a Silenced Profession? The Politicization of Planning and the Need for Fearless Speech.” Planning Theory 16 (3): 275–295.
  • Hanlon, Joseph, Jeanette Manjengwa, and Smart Teresa. 2012. Zimbabwe Takes Back its Land. Sterling, Virginia: Kumarian Press.
  • Harris, Neil. 2011. “Discipline, Surveillance, Control: A Foucaultian Perspective on the Enforcement of Planning Regulations.” Planning Theory and Practice 12 (1): 57–76.
  • Harvey, David. 2014. Seventeen Contradictions and the end of Capitalism. London: Profile Books Ltd.
  • Hughes, Katherine. 2007. “Operation “Drive Out The Trash” The Case for Imposing Targeted United Nations Sanctions Against Zimbabwean Officials.” Fordham Law Review 76 (1): 323–457.
  • ICG. 2005. “Zimbabwe’s Operation Murambatsvina: The tipping point?.” Africa Report Number 97, 17th August 2005. Brussels, International Crisis Group.
  • Innes, Judith E. 2004. “Consensus Building: Clarifications for the Critics.” Planning Theory 3 (1): 5–20.
  • Kamete, Amin Y. 2007. “Cold-Hearted, Negligent and Spineless? Planning, Planners and the (R)Ejection of “Filth” in Urban Zimbabwe.” International Planning Studies 12 (2): 153–171.
  • Kamete, Amin Y. 2009. “In the Service of Tyranny: Debating the Role of Planning in Zimbabwe's Urban `Clean-up' Operation.” Urban Studies 46 (4): 897–922.
  • Kamete, Amin Y. 2012. “Interrogating Planning Power in an African City: Time for Reorientation?” Planning Theory 11 (1): 66–88.
  • Kamete, Amin Y. 2013. “On Handling Urban Informality in Southern Africa.” Geografisker Annaler: Series B, Human Geography 95 (1): 17–31.
  • Karki, Tej Kumar. 2017. “Should Planners Join Politics? Would That Help Them Make Better Cities?” Planning Theory 16 (2): 186–202.
  • Mantysalo, Raine. 2008. “Dialectics of Power: The Case of Tulihta Land-use Agreement.” Planning Theory and Practice 9 (1): 81–96.
  • Marx, Karl. 1990. Capital Volume 1. London: (Penguin Classics) Penguin Books Ltd.
  • Mbiba, Beacon. 2001. “Communal Land Rights as State Sanction and Social Control: A Narrative.” Africa 71 (3): 426–448.
  • Mbiba, Beacon. 2006. “Untold Stories: The Commission of Africa and Zimbabwe.” The Round Table; The Commonwealth Journal of International Affairs 95 (384): 201–218.
  • Mbiba, Beacon. 2017. “Idioms of Accumulation: Corporate Accumulation by Dispossession in Urban Zimbabwe.” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 41 (2): 213–234.
  • Mbiba, Beacon, Verengai Mabika, Audrey Kwangwama, and Mushamba Shingirayi. 2015. “Zimbabwe Green Gauge: How Zimbabwean planners (can) engage with the climate change agenda in urban areas.” The Urban and peri-Urban Research Network (Peri-NET), Harare and Oxford, Working Paper 20.
  • MDP. 2003. “Report of the Ministers’ Conference on Urban and Peri-Urban Agriculture: Prospects for Food Security and Growth in Eastern and Southern Africa.” Sheraton hotel Harare, Harare, Municipal Development Partnerships (MDP), 28–29th August 2003.
  • Muchadenyika, Davison, and John J. Williams. 2017. “Politics and the Practice of Planning: The Case of Zimbabwean Cities.” Cities (london, England) 63: 33–40.
  • Nicolai, Jeff. 2006. “Operation Murambatsvina: A Crime Against Humanity Under the Rome Statute?” American University International Law Review 21 (5): 813–844.
  • Olaleye, Wole and Ozias Tungwarara, eds. 2005. An Analysis of the Demolitions in Zimbabwe. ActionAid International-Southern Africa Partnership Programme. Johannesburg: ActionAid International.
  • Pietz, W. 1993. “Fetishism and Materialism.” In Fetishism as Cultural Discourse, edited by Emily S. Apter, and William Pietz, 119–151. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
  • Potts, Deborah. 2007. “City Life in Zimbabwe at a Time of Fear and Loathing: Urban Planning, Urban Poverty and Operation Murambatsvina.” In Cities in Contemporary Africa, edited by G. Myers, and M. Murray, 25–288. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Potts, Deborah. 2008. “Displacement and Livelihoods: The Longer Term Impacts Operation Murambatsvina.” In Zimbabwe: The Hidden Dimensions of Operation Murambatsvina, edited by Maurice T. Vambe, 53–64. Harare, Pretoria: Weaver Press, Africa Institute of South Africa.
  • Potts, Deborah. 2011. “Beyond the Return of the ‘Slum’; Shanties, Slums, Breeze Blocks and Bricks – (Mis) Understandings About Informal Housing Demolitions in Zimbabwe.” City: Analysis of Urban Trends, Culture, Theory, Policy, Action 15 (6): 709–721.
  • Rakodi, Carole, and Tony Lloyd-Jones. 2002. Urban Livelihoods: A People Centred Approach to Reducing Poverty. London: Earthscan.
  • Roy, Ananya. 2009. “Why India Cannot Plan its Cities: Informality, Insurgence and the Idiom of Urbanisation.” Planning Theory 8 (1): 76–87.
  • Sadomba, Wilbert Zvalanyorwa. 2011. War Veterans in Zimbabwe’s Revolution: Challenging neo-Colonialism and Settler and International Capital. Harare: Weaver Press.
  • Scoones, Ian, Nelson Marongwe, Blasio Mavedzenge, Jacob Mahenyehenye, Felix Murimbarimba, and Chrispen Sukume. 2010. Zimbabwe’s Land Reform: Myths and Realities. Suffolk: James Currey.
  • Shale, Victor. 2006. “Operation Murambatsvina: The Dynamics and Escalation of Zimbabwean Intra-State Conflict.” Africa Journal on Conflict Resolution 6 (2): 107–126.
  • Slaughter, Barbara. 2005. Zimbabwe: Mugabe's "Operation Murambatsvina". International Committee of the Fourth International (ICFI) World Socialist Web Site, 16th July 2005. www.wsws.org/en/articles/2005/07/zimb-j16.htm/.
  • Solidarity Peace Trust. 2005. Discarding the Filth: Operation Murambatsvina: Interim Report on the Zimbabwean Government’s “Urban Cleansing” and Forced Eviction Campaign, May/June 2005. Johannesburg: Solidarity Peace Trust.
  • Solidarity Peace Trust. 2010. A Fractured Nation: Operation Murambatsvina Five Years on. Johannesburg: Solidarity Peace Trust.
  • UN-HABITAT. 2005. Report of the Fact Finding Mission to Zimbabwe to Assess the Scope and Impact of Operation Murambatsvina by the UN Special Envoy on Human Settlements Issues in Zimbabwe, Mrs Anna Kajumulo Tibaijuka (July 2005). Nairobi: United Nations HABITAT. Accessed November 5, 2016 http://www.un.org/News/dh/infocus/zimbabwe/zimbabwe_rpt.pdf.
  • UNICEF. 2005. Zimbabwe – Operation Murambatsvina. Donor Update, 24th November 2005. Harare: UNICEF Humanitarian Action.
  • Vambe, Taonezvi Maurice, ed. 2008. The Hidden Dimensions of Operation Murambatsvina in Zimbabwe. Harare: Weaver Press.
  • Watson, Vanessa. 2006. Presentation at the Royal Town Planning Convention, London, 28th–30th June, Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre, London.  Also “Academic Pleads for Action on Poverty”, Planning Resource, 7th July 2006. https://planningresource.co.uk/article/568162/academic-pleads-action-poverty.
  • Watson, Vanessa, and Babatunde Agbola. 2013. Who Will Plan Africa’s Cities? Counterpoints. London: Africa Research Institute. Accessed November 5, 2016 http://www.africaresearchinstitute.org/newsite/publications/who-will-plan-africas-cities/.

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.