Making Ends Meet at the Margins?

Grappling with Economic Crisis and Belonging in Beitbridge Town, Zimbabwe

Rekopantswe Mate

 

  • Codesria
  • Dakar
  • 2000
  • English
  • Paperback
  • 48 pages

Synopsis

This study of the town of Beitbridge on the Zimbabwe/South African border shows how neoliberalism, prevaricated by HIV/AIDS, has brought about far-reaching social change in the country, and unprecedented levels of poverty and social precariousness.

Review

What is examplorary about this work is how a careful ethnographic case study can convincingly lead to such insightful theoretical comment(s). - Sarah Bracking, Review of African Political Economy

Author

Rekopantswe Mate is currently a senior lecturer in the Sociology Department, University of Zimbabwe. She graduated from Erasmus University Rotterdam (The Hague, The Netherlands) with a PhD in Development Studies.

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