Living with uncertainty: Disappearing modernities and polluted urbanity in post-2000 Harare, Zimbabwe

Social Dynamics

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 352-365

  Morreira, Shannon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Migration; Modernity; Pollution; Urbanity; Zimbabwe

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954771198     PISSN: 02533952     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02533951003790520     Document Type: Conference Paper

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