Selected Bibliography on Informal Sector Studies Relating to Urban Zimbabwe

Selected bibliography on informal sector studies relating to urban Zimbabwe

Deborah Potts,

Bijlmakers, L., Basset, M., & Sanders, D. (1998). Socio-economic Stress, Health and Child Nutritional Status in Zimbabwe at a Time of Economic Structural Adjustment. Uppsala: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, Research Report no. 105.

Chimedza, T. (2008). Bulldozers always come: 'maggots', citizens and governance in contemporary Zimbabwe. In M. Vambe (Ed.), Zimbabwe: The Hidden Dimensions of Operation Murambatsvina, Harare (pp. 87-102). Harare: Weaver Press; Pretoria, Africa Institute of South Africa.

Field, S. (2001). The internationalisation of the second-hand clothing trade: the Zimbabwe experience. PhD Coventry University.

Grant, M. (2003). 'Difficult debut: social and economic identities of urban youth in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. Canadian Journal of African Studes, 37(2 and 3), 411-439.

Grant, M., & Palmiere, A. (2003). When tea is a luxury: the economic impact of HIV/AIDS in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. African Studes, 62(2), 214.

Gumbo, T. (2013). ON IDEOLOGY CHANGE AND SPATIAL AND STRUCTURAL LINKAGES BETWEEN FORMAL AND INFORMAL ECONOMIC SECTORS IN ZIMBABWEAN CITIES (1981-2010). Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch.

Hansen, K. T., & Vaa, M. (Eds.). (2004). Reconsidering Informality: Perspectives from Urban Africa. Uppsala: NAIS. [Chapter 7. Home Industries and the Formal City in Harare, Zimbabwe Amin Y. Kamete]

Horn, N. (1995). Market women, development and structural adjustment in Harare, Zimbabwe. African Rural and Urban Studies, 2(1), 17-42.

Jones, J. (2010). 'Nothing is straight in Zimbabwe': the rise and rise of the kukiya-kiya economy, 2000-2008. Journal of Southern African Studies, 36(2), 285-300.

Kamete, A. (2002). Governing the poor in Harare, Zimbabwe: shifting perceptions, changing responses. Uppsala: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, Research Report no. 122.

Kamete, A. (2008). Planning Versus Youth: Stamping Out Spatial Unruliness in Harare. Geoforum, 39(5), 1721-1733.

Kamete, A. (2009). In the service of tyranny: debating the role of planning in Zimbabwe’s urban ‘Clean-Up’ Operation. Urban Studies.

Kamete, A., & Lindell, I. (2009). The politics of non-planning strategies in African cities: international and local dimensions: Jnl of Southern African Studies.

Leiman, A. (1984). Formal/informal sector articulation in the Zimbabwean economy. Journal of Contemporary African Studies, 4(1/2), p. 119-137.

Macharia, K. (1997). Social and Political Dynamics of the Informal Economy in African Cities: Nairobi and Harare. Lanham and Oxford: University Press of America.

Magure, B. (2014). Interpreting Urban Informality in Chegutu, Zimbabwe. Journal of Asian and African Studies 1-17.

Manganga, K. (2007). Street vending in post-operation Murambatsvina Harare: The case of female vendors at Machipisa, Highfield Township, paper presented at Living on the Margins Conference. Cape Town.

Mapedzahama, V. (2009). Weaving Paid Work, Informal Sector Work and Motherhood in Harare (Zimbabwe): A New Arena for Research. Australasian Review of African Studies, 30(1), 64-82. .

Matsebula, M. (1997). The Urban informal sector. Harare: SAPES Books.

Mawowa, S., & Matongo, A. (2010). Inside Zimbabwe's roadside currency trade: the 'World Bank' of Bulawayo. Journal of Southern African Studies, 36(2), 319-338.

Mate, R. 2005. Making ends meet at the marins? Grappling with economc crisis and belonging in Beitbridge town, Zimbabw. CODESRIA, Dakar.

Muchena, O. N. (1979). African women in urban employment: factors influencing their employment in Zimbabwe. Gwelo: Mambo Press.

Mugara, T. (2007). The impact of operation Murambatsvina (Clean Up) on urban livelihoods of ‘informal vendors’ in Harare, Zimbabwe, Living on the Margins Conference. Cape Town.

Mujere, J. 2007. ‘Tsunami!’ Coping with the impact of Operation Murambatsvina in Harare: The case of elderly vendors and tuck shop owners in Mbare and Highfield suburbs, paper presented at Paper Prepared for The Nordic Africa Institute Conference on Ageing in African Cities: Revisiting the Issues, Responses and Outcomes

Zomba, Malawi, 29 November to 01 December 2007

Mupedziswa, R., & Gumbo, P. (1998). Structural Adjustment and Women Informal Sector Trades in Harare, Zimbabwe. Uppsala: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, Research Report no. 106.

Mupedziswa, R., & Gumbo, P. (2001). Women Informal Traders in Harare and the struggle for survival in an environment of economic reforms Uppsala: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, Research Report no. 117.

Musiyiwa, M. (2008). Eschatology, magic, nature and politics: the responses of the people of Epworth to the tragedy of Operation Murambatsvina. In M. Vambe (Ed.), Zimbabwe: The Hidden Dimensions of Operation Murambatsvina, Harare. Harare: Weaver Press; Pretoria, Africa Institute of South Africa.

Musoni, F. (2010). Operation Murambatsvina and the politics of street vendors in Zimbabwe. Journal of Southern African Studies, 36(2), 301-318.

Osirim, M. (2003). AFRICAN WOMEN'S ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND CULTURAL PRODUCTION: THE CASE OF CROCHETERS AND KNITTERS IN SOUTHERN AFRICA. Contours: A Journal of the African Diaspora, 1(2), 154-170.

Osirim, M. J. (1994). Women, work and public policy: structural adjustment and the informal sector in Zimbabwe. In E. Kalipeni (Ed.), Population growth and environmental degradation in southern Africa. Boulder & London: Lynne Rienner.

Osirim, M. J. (1996). Beyond simple survival: women microentrepeneurs in Harare and Bulawayo. In K. Sheldon (Ed.), Courtyards, markets, city streets: urban women in Africa. Boulder: Westview Press.

Peters-Berries, C. (1993). The Urban Informal Sector in Zimbabwe: From Insignificance to the Employer of the Last Resort. Geneva: International Labour Office.

Potts, D. (2000). Urban unemployment and migrants in Africa: evidence from Harare, 1985-94. Development and Change, 31(4), 879-910.

Potts, D. (2008). The urban informal sector in sub-Saharan Africa: from bad to good (and back again). Developmentt Southern Africa, special issue on Living the Margins, 25(2), 151-167.

Rakodi, C. (1994). Urban Poverty in Zimbabwe: Post-Independence Efforts, Household Strategies and the Short-Term Impact of Structural Adjustment. Journal of International Development, 6(5), 656-663.

Shona, L. L. (1994). Bottlenecks in the Informal Food-transportation Network of Harare, Zimbabwe. . www. idrc.ca/en/ev

Tawodzera, G. (2012). Urban Household Survival and Resilience to Food Insecurity in Crisis Conditions: The Case of Epworth in Harare, Zimbabwe. Journal of Hunger & Environmental Nutrition, 7(2-3), 293-320.

Tevera, D. S. (1993). Waste recycling as a livelihood in the informal sector: The case of Harare's Teviotdale dump scavengers. In L. Zinyama, D. S. Tevera & S. D. Cumming (Eds.), Harare: the growth and problems of the city (pp. 83-96). Harare: University of Zimbabwe Publications.

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. [.org.za/transitionaljustice/zim/sptdf]

Vambe, M. (Ed.). (2008). Zimbabwe: The Hidden Dimensions of Operation Murambatsvina, Harare. Harare: Weaver Press; Pretoria, Africa Institute of South Africa.

various. (various). many articles on informality and cities from hammar conference. various.

Zinyama, L., Tevera, D. S., & Cumming, S. D. (Eds.). (1993). Harare: the growth and problems of the city. Harare: University of Zimbabwe Publications. [Naison on emergency taxis]