Neither friend nor enemy: Planning, ambivalence and the invalidation of urban informality in Zimbabwe/ (Record no. 13254)

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Personal name Kamete, Amin Y
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Title Neither friend nor enemy: Planning, ambivalence and the invalidation of urban informality in Zimbabwe/
Statement of responsibility Amin Y Kamete
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Place of publication, distribution, etc London:
Name of publisher, distributor, etc Sage,
Date of publication, distribution, etc 2020.
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Pages Vol 57, issue 5, 2020: (927–943 p.)
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Summary, etc Planning relies on the strict classification and disposition of things in space. Intended to establish and maintain order, planning’s classifying practices are reinforced by binarisms that revolve around legality/illegality. The article deploys Bauman’s notion of the ‘stranger’ to recast hostility to informality as a symptom of antipathy against strangerhood and ambivalence. Drawing from qualitative research in urban Zimbabwe, I posit that because informality cannot be pigeonholed as either ‘friend’ or ‘enemy’, it instils a sense of unease in planners. I argue that this is a failure of the pursuit of order through binary antagonisms and contend that fixation with binarisms spawns ‘spatial undecidables’ and fuels resentment against informality. I propose that the notion of strangerhood complements and extends the concept of ‘gray spacing’.
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Place, publisher, and date of publication London Sage Publications Ltd. 1964
Title Urban studies
International Standard Serial Number 0042-0980
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Uniform Resource Identifier https://doi.org/10.1177/0042098018821588
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