Miriam R. Grant: The Translocal Geography of Lodging in Urban Zimbabwe, Gebunden

Miriam R. Grant, Arja Vainio-Mattila

The Translocal Geography of Lodging in Urban Zimbabwe

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Publisher:: Springer, 11/2024
Binding:: Gebunden, HC runder Rücken kaschiert
Language:: Englisch
ISBN-13:: 9783031737114
Item number:: 12113558
Volume:: 252 Pages
Weight:: 441 g
Format:: 216 x 153 mm
Thickness:: 19 mm
Release date:: 17.11.2024
Note: Caution: Product is not in German language

Blurb

This book will argue that lodging is a hugely ignored, largely invisible but critical sector of housing provision and economic contributor of burgeoning African cities. It further connects the rural and the urban, challenging traditional definitions of locationally-bound communities. Lodgers create micro, local and translocal communities and the lodging system offers livelihood strategies. Rather than engage in the dominant portrayal of rural-urban as binary, dichotomous space, we maintain that lodging represents and supports the translocal community and relational networks of the extended family as it seeks to maximize access to resources.