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

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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)

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.

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  • Beacon Mbiba & Marie Huchzermeyer, 2002. "Contentious development: peri-urban studies in sub-Saharan Africa," Progress in Development Studies, , vol. 2(2), pages 113-131, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:prodev:v:2:y:2002:i:2:p:113-131
    DOI: 10.1191/1464993402ps032ra
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