What is it about?
The nature and role of planning is often mis-understood even by planning scholars and is made a scapegoat for failures in broader national governance in post –colonial Southern Africa. Using the concepts of fetish the paper examines writings on Zimbabwe’s 2005 Operation Murambatsvina to illustrate these erroneous understandings.
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Why is it important?
This analysis contributes knowledge required to equip change agents in the struggle for the "rights to the city" and "just cities" so that their efforts are correctly targeted. If planning is not the problem as argued here, then urban scholars and activists have to focus attention elsewhere especially on the failures of politics and the legal system.
Perspectives
I hope this article generates more critical reflections on the the flexibility and nature of planning in relation to the state and other arms of the state especially the judiciary.
Beacon Mbiba
Oxford Brookes University
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This page is a summary of: Planning scholarship and the fetish about planning in Southern Africa: the case of Zimbabwe’s operation Murambatsvina, International Planning Studies, September 2018, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/13563475.2018.1515619.
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