The Translocal Geography of Lodging in Urban Zimbabwe (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9783031737114)

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.

Author: Miriam R. Grant, Arja Vainio-Mattila
ISBN-10: 3031737113
ISBN-13: 9783031737114
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 11/17/2024
Pages: 233
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.63d