Contentious development: peri-urban studies in sub-Saharan Africa

Beacon Mbiba and Marie Huchzermeyer
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Beacon Mbiba: Urban and Evironmental Studies, Faculty of the Built Environment, South Bank University, London, UK, mbibab@sbu.ac.uk
Marie Huchzermeyer: Faculty of the Built Environment, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

Progress in Development Studies, 2002, vol. 2, issue 2, 113-131

Abstract: This paper reviews the current state of literature on peri-urban research in sub-Saharan Africa. This research has been led by multi-lateral and bilateral development agencies that have sought to find a role in urban development. The review finds that the donor-driven research has remained largely descriptive. It has neither emphasized nor theorized the rapid and contentious peri-urban transformations associated with globalization. The paper identifies these contradictory transformations and then reviews a range of social development theories, suggesting to what extent they are useful to a meaningful engagement with these contradictions. It highlights in particular the potential role of structuration theory.

Keywords: contradictions; development theory; peri-urban transformations; sub-Saharan Africa (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2002
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DOI: 10.1191/1464993402ps032ra

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