04353nam a22005775i 4500 978-3-031-73712-1 DE-He213 20251030113316.0 cr nn 008mamaa 241117s2024 sz | s |||| 0|eng d 9783031737121 978-3-031-73712-1 10.1007/978-3-031-73712-1 doi GF RGC bicssc SOC015000 bisacsh RGC thema Grant, Miriam R. author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 87647 The Translocal Geography of Lodging in Urban Zimbabwe [electronic resource] / by Miriam R. Grant, Arja Vainio-Mattila. 1st ed. 2024. Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. XVII, 233 p. 34 illus., 15 illus. in color. online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Chapter 1 Introduction: Secondary Cities, Lodging Spatiality and Translocality -- Chapter 2 Urban Development, African Housing and the Spatiality of Lodging in Rhodesia/ Zimbabwe -- Chapter 3 Gweru: A Key Zimbabwean Secondary City -- Chapter 4 Rooms to Rent: Lodging, Spatiality and Environment -- Chapter 5 Lodging Household Dynamics and Livelihoods -- Chapter 6 The Owners: Landlords and Landladies -- Chapter 7 Lifetime Migrations. City Rooms, Translocal Networks and Rural Bases -- Chapter 8 Place, Space and Locale: Lodging Pathways within Gweru -- Chapter 9 Lodging and Community. 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. Miriam Grant is a professor Emeritus (Geography) in the Department of Community, Culture and Global Studies, and Graduate Dean Emeritus, UBC Okanagan. A social urban Geographer who obtained her PhD from Queen’s University, she was a faculty member in Geography at the University of Calgary for twenty years. There she also held the positions of Associate Dean, Graduate Studies and Associate Dean, Research (Faculty of Social Sciences, which became the Faculty of Arts). She then moved to UBCO to become Vice Provost and Dean, Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies (2011-2018). Arja Vainio-Mattila began her career as a researcher at the University of Helsinki, completing her PhD in Geography at the University of Turku, Finland. Dr. Vainio-Mattila has held the positions of Director of the Centre for Global Studies at Huron University College, Dean of School of Arts and Social Sciences at Cape Breton University, and Provost, Vice-President Academic and Research at Nipissing University. She is currently the Provost, Vice-President Academic at Brock University. Human geography. 58506 Sociology, Urban. Sex. 66477 Economic development. 58075 Social history. Human Geography. 58506 Urban Sociology. 69514 Gender Studies. 66478 Development Studies. 67851 Social History. Vainio-Mattila, Arja. author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 87648 SpringerLink (Online service) Springer Nature eBook Printed edition: 9783031737114 Printed edition: 9783031737138 Printed edition: 9783031737145 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-73712-1 ZDB-2-SLS ZDB-2-SXS 65015 65015