Professor Amin Kamete

Professor of Spatial Planning (Urban Studies & Social Policy)

telephone: 01413305682
email: Amini.Kamete@glasgow.ac.uk

Urban Studies, R240 Level 2, 29 Bute Gardens, Glasgow G12 8RS

Biography

Amin Kamete is Professor of Spatial Planning. Before joining Urban Studies at the University of Glasgow, Amin was lecturer in planning in the School of Environment, Natural Resources and Geography at Bangor University. A chartered town planner, Amin launched his academic career at the University of Zimbabwe in the Department of Rural and Urban Planning after which he joined the Nordic Africa Institute in Sweden as Research Programme Coordinator.

Research interests

My main area of interest is the study of urban spatial planning, cities, space and power in the Global South. More recently, I have tried to bring together work on contemporary planning theory and planning practice with particular emphasis on governmentality in the context of development planning, development management and planning enforcement practice vis-à-vis informality, marginality, (in)security and sustainability in sub-Saharan Africa.

Some of my other work considers urban development, urban governance, urban conditions and urban politics as they relate to marginalised groups and the wider significance of spatialised repression and resistance.

Research groups

Publications

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2025

Kamete, A.Y. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4937-0593 (2025) The dark side of urban e-planning?: Untangling the ‘professionalisation’ of the smart city concept in Zimbabwe. In: Silva, C.N. (ed.) Recent Advances and Prospects in Urban E-Planning. IGI Global. (Accepted for Publication)

2023

Kamete, Amin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4937-0593 (2023) Zimbabwe. In: Alidu, Seidu M, Kamski, Benedikt, Mehler, Andreas and Sebudubudu, David (eds.) Africa Yearbook Volume 19. Brill: Leiden and Boston, pp. 551-563. ISBN 9789004538115 (doi: 10.1163/9789004538115_056)

2022

Kamete, Amin Y. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4937-0593 (2022) Zimbabwe. In: Awedoba, Albert K., Kamski, Benedict, Mehler, Andreas and Sebudubudu, David (eds.) Africa Yearbook 18: Politics, Economy and Society South of the Sahara in 2021. Brill: Leiden & Boston, pp. 548-560. ISBN 9789004519565 (doi: 10.1163/9789004519572_056)

2021

Kamete, Amin Y. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4937-0593 (2021) Zimbabwe. In: Awedoba, Albert K., Kamski, Benedikt, Mehler, Andreas and Sebudubudu, David (eds.) Africa Yearbook Volume 17: Politics, Economy, and Society South of the Sahara in 2020. Brill: Leiden ; Boston, pp. 543-555. ISBN 9789004460256 (doi: 10.1163/9789004503182_056)

2020

Kamete, Amin Y. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4937-0593 (2020) Zimbabwe. In: Awedoba, Albert K., Kamski, Benedikt, Mehler, Andreas and Sebudubudu, David (eds.) Africa Yearbook: Politics, Economy and Society South of the Sahara in 2019. Series: Africa yearbook, volume: 16. Brill: Leiden and Boston, pp. 542-554. ISBN 978904430013 (doi: 10.1163/9789004430013_056)

Kamete, Amini Y. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4937-0593 (2020) Neither friend nor enemy: Planning, ambivalence and the invalidation of urban informality in Zimbabwe. Urban Studies, 57(5), pp. 927-943. (doi: 10.1177/0042098018821588)

Kamete, Amin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4937-0593 (2020) Street vendors and planning paradigms. In: Chen, Martha and Carré, Françoise (eds.) The Informal Economy Revisited: Examining the Past, Envisioning the Future. Series: Routledge explorations in development studies. Routledge: Abingdon, pp. 161-166. ISBN 9780429200724 (doi: 10.4324/9780429200724)

2019

Kamete, Amin Y. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4937-0593 (2019) Zimbabwe. In: Adetula, Victor, Kamski, Benedikt, Mehler, Andreas and Melber, Henning (eds.) Africa Yearbook Volume 15. Brill: Leiden, pp. 520-531. ISBN 9789004417663 (doi: 10.1163/9789004417663_056)

Kamete, Amin Y. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4937-0593 (2019) A Decade of Zimbabwe: Politics, Economy, and Society – 2008-2017. Brill: Leiden. ISBN 9789004349063

2018

Kamete, Amin Y. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4937-0593 (2018) Zimbabwe. In: Abbink, Jon, Adetula, Victor, Mehler, Andreas and Melber, Henning (eds.) Africa Yearbook Volume 14. Brill: Leiden, pp. 522-533. ISBN 9789004367630 (doi: 10.1163/9789004367630_056)

Kamete, Amin Y. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4937-0593 (2018) Of good plants and useless weeds: planning as a spatial technology of the gardening state. Planning Theory, 17(2), pp. 253-273. (doi: 10.1177/1473095217701514)

Kamete, Amin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4937-0593 (2018) Shaw, Carolyn Martin. Women and power in Zimbabwe: promises of feminism. x, 201 pp., map, illus., bibliogr. Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press, 2015. £20.99 (paper). Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 24(1), pp. 196-197. (doi: 10.1111/1467-9655.12771)[Book Review]

Kamete, Amini Y. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4937-0593 (2018) A concept ‘vandalised’: seeing and doing e-planning in practice. International Journal of E-Planning Research, 7(1), 1. (doi: 10.4018/IJEPR.2018010101)

Kamete, Amini Y. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4937-0593 (2018) Pernicious assimilation: reframing the integration of the urban informal economy in Southern Africa. Urban Geography, 39(2), pp. 167-189. (doi: 10.1080/02723638.2017.1298219)

2017

Kamete, Amin Y. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4937-0593 (2017) Governing enclaves of informality: unscrambling the logic of the camp in urban Zimbabwe. Geoforum, 81, pp. 76-86. (doi: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2017.02.012)

Kamete, Amin Y. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4937-0593 (2017) Zimbabwe. In: Abbink, Jon, Elischer, Sebastian, Mehler, Andreas and Melber, Henning (eds.) Africa Yearbook Volume 13. Brill, pp. 515-526. ISBN 9789004355910 (doi: 10.1163/9789004355910_056)

2016

Kamete, Amini ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4937-0593 (2016) Zimbabwe. In: Abbink, Jon, Elischer, Sebastian, Mehler, Andreas and Melber, Henning (eds.) Politics, Economy and Society South of the Sahara in 2015. Series: Africa Year book (12). Brill: Leiden and Boston, pp. 505-516. ISBN 9789004314788 (doi: 10.1163/9789004333239_056)

Kamete, Amini Y. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4937-0593 (2016) ‘Programmed to serve’: urban planning and elite interests in Zimbabwe. In: Silva, Carlos Nunes (ed.) Governing Urban Africa. Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 151-169. ISBN 9781349951086 (doi: 10.1057/978-1-349-95109-3_6)

2015

Kamete, Amini ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4937-0593 (2015) Zimbabwe. In: Elischer, Sebastian, Hofmeier, Rolf, Mehl, Andreas and Melber, Henning (eds.) Politics, Economy and Society South of the Sahara in 2014. Series: Africa Yearbook (11). Brill: Leiden and Boston, pp. 504-515. ISBN 9789004305052 (doi: 10.1163/9789004305052_056)

2014

Kamete, Amini ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4937-0593 (2014) Zimbabwe. In: Andreas, Mehler, Melber, Henning and Walraven, Klaas (eds.) Politics, Economy and Society South of the Sahara in 2013. Series: Africa Yearbook (10). Brill: Leiden and Boston, pp. 534-544. ISBN 9789004282643 (doi: 10.1163/9789004282643)

2013

Kamete, A.Y. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4937-0593 (2013) On handling urban informality in southern Africa. Geografiska Annaler. Series B: Human Geography, 95(1), pp. 17-31. (doi: 10.1111/geob.12007)

Kamete, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4937-0593 (2013) Missing the point? Urban planning and the normalisation of ‘pathological’ spaces in southern Africa. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 38(4), pp. 639-651. (doi: 10.1111/j.1475-5661.2012.00552.x)

Kamete, A.Y. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4937-0593 (2013) Defending illicit livelihoods: youth resistance in Harare's contested spaces. In: Hibbard, M., Freestone, R.R. and Sager, T.Ø. (eds.) Dialogues in Urban and Regional Planning. Routledge: Abingdon, UK, pp. 43-69. ISBN 9780415680776

2012

Kamete, A.Y. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4937-0593 (2012) Interrogating planning's power in an African city: time for reorientation? Planning Theory, 11(1), pp. 66-88. (doi: 10.1177/1473095211419116)

Kamete, A.Y. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4937-0593 (2012) Not exactly like the phoenix - but rising all the same: reconstructing displaced livelihoods in post-clean-up Harare. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 30(2), pp. 243-261. (doi: 10.1068/d2408)

Kamete, A.Y. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4937-0593 (2012) Of prosperity, ghost towns and havens: mining and urbanisation in Zimbabwe. Journal of Contemporary African Studies, 30(4), pp. 589-609. (doi: 10.1080/02589001.2012.724871)

Kamete, A.Y. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4937-0593 (2012) Zimbabwe. In: Mehler, A., Melber, H. and van Walraven, K. (eds.) Politics, Economy and Society South of the Sahara in 2011. Series: Africa Yearbook (8). Brill: Leiden and Boston, pp. 545-556. ISBN 9789004233980

2011

Kamete, A.Y. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4937-0593 (2011) Making collective demands on tyranny: social movements and resistance in Harare. In: Moksnes, H. and Melin, M. (eds.) Power to the people? (Con-)tested civil society in search of democracy. Uppsala University: Uppsala, pp. 79-96.

Kamete, A.Y. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4937-0593 (2011) Zimbabwe. In: Mehler, A., Melber, H., van Walraven, K. and Hofmeier, R. (eds.) Politics, Economy and Society South of the Sahara in 2010. Series: Africa Yearbook (7). Brill: Leiden and Boston, pp. 535-545. ISBN 9789004216587 (doi: 10.1163/ej.9789004205567.i-550)

2010

Kamete, A.Y. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4937-0593 (2010) Defending illicit livelihoods: youth resistance in Harare's contested spaces. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 34(1), pp. 55-75. (doi: 10.1111/j.1468-2427.2009.00854.x)

Kamete, A.Y. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4937-0593 (2010) Hanging out with 'trouble-causers': planning and governance in urban Zimbabwe. In: Stiftel, B. and Watson, V. (eds.) Dialogues in Urban and Regional Planning. Routledge: London, pp. 12-37. ISBN 9780415346931

Kamete, A.Y. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4937-0593 (2010) Zimbabwe. In: Mehler, A., Melber, H. and van Walraven, K. (eds.) Politics, Economy and Society South of the Sahara 2009. Series: Africa Yearbook (6). Brill: Leiden and Boston, pp. 537-547. ISBN 9789004185609 (doi: 10.1163/ej.9789004185593.i-552)

Kamete, A.Y. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4937-0593 and Lindell, I. (2010) The politics of ‘non-planning’ interventions in African cities: unravelling the international and local dimensions in Harare and Ma. Journal of Southern African Studies, 36(4), pp. 889-912. (doi: 10.1080/03057070.2010.527643)

2009

Kamete, A.Y. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4937-0593 (2009) "For enhanced civic participation in local governance": calling tyranny to account in Harare. Environment and Urbanization, 21(1), pp. 59-75. (doi: 10.1177/0956247809103004)

Kamete, A.Y. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4937-0593 (2009) Hanging out with “trouble-causers”: planning and governance in urban Zimbabwe. Planning Theory and Practice, 10(1), pp. 85-103. (doi: 10.1080/14649350802661675)

Kamete, A.Y. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4937-0593 (2009) In the service of tyranny: debating the role of planning in Zimbabwe's urban `clean-up' operation. Urban Studies, 46(4), pp. 897-922. (doi: 10.1177/0042098009102134)

Kamete, A.Y. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4937-0593 (2009) Zimbabwe. In: Mehler, A., Melber, H. and van Walraven, K. (eds.) Politics, Economy and Society South of the Sahara in 2008. Series: Africa Yearbook (5). Brill: Leiden and Boston, pp. 505-516. ISBN 9789047445012 (doi: 10.1163/ej.9789004178113.i-520)

Lindell, I. and Kamete, A.Y. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4937-0593 (2009) Walls of shame: evictions, global pressures and local agendas. Africa in Search of Alternatives: NAI Annual Report 2008, pp. 26-27.

2008

Kamete, A.Y. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4937-0593 (2008) Ageing in sub-Saharan African cities. Africa on the Global Agenda: Annual Report 2007, pp. 25-26.

Kamete, A.Y. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4937-0593 (2008) Planning versus youth: stamping out spatial unruliness in Harare. Geoforum, 39(5), pp. 1721-1733. (doi: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2008.06.001)

Kamete, A.Y. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4937-0593 (2008) When livelihoods take a battering... Mapping the 'New Gold Rush' in Zimbabwe's Angwa-Pote Basin. Transformation, 65(1), pp. 36-67. (doi: 10.1353/trn.2008.0009)

Kamete, A.Y. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4937-0593 (2008) Zimbabwe. In: Mehler, A., Melber, H. and van Walraven, K. (eds.) Politics, Economy and Society South of the Sahara in 2007. Series: Africa Yearbook (4). Brill: Leiden and Boston, pp. 505-516. ISBN 9789047443520

2007

Kamete, A.Y. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4937-0593 (2007) Book Review: 'The Management of Urban Development in Zambia' by Emmanuel Mutale. Urban Studies, 44(11), pp. 2272-2274. (doi: 10.1177/00420980070440110903)[Book Review]

Hulterström, K., Kamete, A.Y. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4937-0593 and Melber, H. (Eds.) (2007) Political Opposition in African Countries: the Cases of Kenya, Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Series: Discussion paper (Nordiska Afrikainstitutet). Nordiska Afrikainstitutet: Uppsala, Sweden. ISBN 9789171065872

Arnfred, S. et al. (2007) Rethinking Africa: a contribution to the Swedish Government White Paper on Africa. Discussion Paper. Nordic Africa Institute, Uppsala.

Kamete, A.Y. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4937-0593 (2007) Cold-hearted, negligent and spineless? Planning, planners and the (r)ejection of “filth” in urban Zimbabwe. International Planning Studies, 12(2), pp. 153-171. (doi: 10.1080/13563470701477959)

Kamete, A.Y. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4937-0593 (2007) Homelessness in Zimbabwe. In: Levinson, D. and Ross, M. (eds.) Homelessness handbook. Berkshire Publishing Group: Great Barrington, MA, pp. 414-418. ISBN 9781933782034

Kamete, A.Y. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4937-0593 (2007) More than urban local governance?: warring over Zimbabwe's fading cities. African Renaissance, 3(2), pp. 34-46.

Kamete, A.Y. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4937-0593 (2007) Of jinxes and blessings: the opposition in Zimbabwe's urban local governance. In: Hulterström, K., Kamete, A.Y. and Melber, H. (eds.) Political Opposition in African Countries: the Cases of Kenya, Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Series: Discussion paper (Nordiska Afrikainstitutet) (37). Nordiska Afrikainstitutet: Uppsala, Sweden, pp. 39-60. ISBN 9789171065964

Kamete, A.Y. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4937-0593 (2007) Youth in urban governance: rationalities, encounters and interaction in Zimbabwe. Africa Insight, 37(3), pp. 327-343.

Kamete, A.Y. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4937-0593 (2007) Zimbabwe. In: Mehler, A., van Walraven, K. and Melber, H. (eds.) Politics, Economy and Society South of the Sahara in 2006. Series: Africa Yearbook (3). Brill: Leiden and Boston, pp. 501-511. ISBN 9789047422518

2006

Kamete, A.Y. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4937-0593 (2006) 'At the bottom of the social heap': a youth underclass in inner-city Harare? Journal of Youth Studies, 9(1), (doi: 10.1080/13676260500523655)

Kamete, A.Y. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4937-0593 (2006) The challenge of local governance: planning and youth in urban Zimbabwe. In: Planning Africa Conference, Cape Town, 22-24 March 2006,

Kamete, A.Y. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4937-0593 (2006) Participatory farce: youth and the making of urban places in Zimbabwe. International Development Planning Review, 28(3), pp. 359-380. (doi: 10.3828/idpr.28.3.4)

Kamete, A.Y. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4937-0593 (2006) The return of the jettisoned: ZANU-PF's crack at ‘re-urbanising’ in Harare. Journal of Southern African Studies, 32(2), pp. 255-271. (doi: 10.1080/03057070600656143)

Kamete, A.Y. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4937-0593 (2006) Revisiting the urban housing crisis in Zimbabwe: some forgotten dimensions? Habitat International, 30(4), pp. 981-995. (doi: 10.1016/j.habitatint.2005.08.002)

Kamete, A.Y. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4937-0593 (2006) Zimbabwe. In: Mehler, A., Melber, H. and van Walraven, K. (eds.) Politics, Economy and Society South of the Sahara in 2005. Series: Africa Yearbook (2). Brill: Leiden and Boston, pp. 497-508. ISBN 9789004154865

2005

Kamete, A.Y. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4937-0593 (2005) Commentary: Bona fide agency and rightful citizenship: youth in African cities. News from the Nordic Africa Institute, 3(2005), pp. 3-6.

Kamete, A.Y. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4937-0593 (2005) Review: 'African Voices on Development and Social Justice'. Afrika Spectrum, [Book Review]

Kamete, A.Y. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4937-0593 (2005) ZANU-PF’s urban comeback bid: the hits and the miss. British Zimbabwe Review, 5(2), p. 6.

Kamete, A.Y. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4937-0593 (2005) Zimbabwe. In: Mehler, A., Melber, H. and van Walraven, K. (eds.) Politics, Economy and Society South of the Sahara in 2004. Series: Africa Yearbook (1). Brill: Leiden and Boston, pp. 481-493. ISBN 9789004144620

2004

Kamete, A.Y. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4937-0593 (2004) Home industries and the formal city in Harare, Zimbabwe. In: Tranberg-Hansen, K. and Vaa, M. (eds.) Reconsidering Informality: Perspectives from Urban Africa. Nordic Africa Institute: Uppsala, pp. 120-137.

Kamete, A.Y. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4937-0593 (2004) Repositioning the urban environment question in Zimbabwe: a review of the context, conditions and processes. Development Southern Africa, 21(4), pp. 663-686. (doi: 10.1080/0376835042000288842)

Kamete, A.Y. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4937-0593 (2004) Zimbabwe. In: Levinson, D. (ed.) Encyclopedia of Homelessness. Sage: Thousand Oaks, CA, pp. 623-626. ISBN 9780761927518

2003

Kamete, A.Y. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4937-0593 (2003) In defence of national sovereignty? Urban governance and democracy in Zimbabwe. Journal of Contemporary African Studies, 21(2), pp. 193-213. (doi: 10.1080/02589000305439)

Kamete, A.Y. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4937-0593 (2003) In defence of national sovereignty?: urban governance and democracy in Zimbabwe. In: Melber, H. (ed.) Limits to Liberation in Southern Africa: the Unfinished Business of Democratic Consolidation. Human Sciences Research Council Press: Cape Town, South Africa, pp. 47-71. ISBN 9780796920256

2002

Kamete, A.Y. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4937-0593 (2002) Governance for sustainability? Balancing social and environmental concerns in Harare. Christian Michelsen Institute: Bergen. ISBN 9788280620248

Kamete, A.Y. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4937-0593 (2002) Governing the Poor in Harare, Zimbabwe: Shifting Perceptions and Changing Responses. Series: Research report (Nordiska Afrikainstitutet), 122. Nordiska Afrikainstitutet: Uppsala, Sweden. ISBN 9789171065032

Kamete, A.Y. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4937-0593 (2002) The rebels within: urban Zimbabwe in the post-election period. In: Melber, H. (ed.) Zimbabwe's Presidential Elections 2002: Evidence, Lessons and Implications. Series: Discussion paper (Nordiska Afrikainstitutet) (14). Nordiska Afrikainstitutet: Uppsala, Sweden, pp. 31-48. ISBN 9789171064905

Kamete, A.Y. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4937-0593 (2002) The Zimbabwe government’s drive to house the urban populace: an alternative explanation. Geographical Journal of Zimbabwe, 31(1), pp. 14-26.

2001

Kamete, A.Y. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4937-0593 (2001) Civil society, housing and urban governance: the case of urban housing cooperatives in Zimbabwe. In: Tostensen, A., Tvedten, I. and Vaa, M. (eds.) Associational Life in African Cities: Popular Responses to the Urban Crisis. Nordiska Afrikainstitutet: Uppsala, Sweden, pp. 162-179. ISBN 9789171064653

Kamete, A.Y. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4937-0593 (2001) The nature, extent and eradication of homelessness in Zimbabwe. Project Report. Newcastle University/DFID ESCOR Project R7905.

Kamete, A.Y. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4937-0593 (2001) The quest for affordable urban housing: a study of approaches and results in Harare, Zimbabwe. Development Southern Africa, 18(1), pp. 31-44. (doi: 10.1080/03768350120045303)

Kamete, A.Y. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4937-0593 (2001) US AID's private sector housing programme in urban Zimbabwe: examining the terrain from the terraces. Environment and Urbanization, 13(1), pp. 125-135. (doi: 10.1177/095624780101300110)

Kamete, A.Y. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4937-0593 and Mubvami, T. (2001) Shelter Co-operatives in Zimbabwe. UN-Habitat: Nairobi, Kenya.

Kamete, A.Y. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4937-0593, Tvedten, I. and Tostensen, A. (2001) From Global Village to Urban Globe: Urbanisation and Poverty in Africa: Implications for Norwegian Aid Policy. Christian Michelsen Institute. ISBN 8290584911

2000

Kamete, A.Y. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4937-0593 (2000) The practice of cost recovery in urban low-income housing: a discourse with experiences from Zimbabwe. Habitat International, 24(3), pp. 241-260. (doi: 10.1016/S0197-3975(99)00032-6)

Kamete, A.Y. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4937-0593, Sidambe, M. and Ndubiwa, M.M. (2000) Managing the Interface Between Urban Councils and Surrounding Rural District Councils in Zimbabwe: The Case of the City of Bulawayo and Umguza Rural District Council. Project Report. Municipal Development Programme, Harare.

1999

Kamete, A.Y. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4937-0593 (1999) Government, building societies and civil society: exploring the interface in the context of urban low-income housing in Zimbabwe. African Review of Finance Money and Banking (Supplement to Savings and Development), pp. 77-98.

Kamete, A.Y. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4937-0593 (1999) Restrictive control of urban high-density housing in Zimbabwe: deregulation, challenges and implications for urban design. Housing, Theory and Society, 16(3), pp. 136-151. (doi: 10.1080/14036099950149992)

1998

Kamete, A.Y. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4937-0593 (1998) Continuity with change: A review of Zimbabwe's public sector urban low‐income housing production system. Development Southern Africa, 15(1), pp. 13-28. (doi: 10.1080/03768359808439993)

Kamete, A.Y. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4937-0593 (1998) Interlocking livelihoods: farm and small town in Zimbabwe. Environment and Urbanization, 10(1), pp. 23-34. (doi: 10.1177/095624789801000111)

1997

Kamete, A.Y. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4937-0593 (1997) Formal private sector housing finance institutions and urban low-income groups in Zimbabwe: peculiar requirements, operations and realities. Journal of Social Development in Africa, 12(1), pp. 83-91.

Kamete, A.Y. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4937-0593 (1997) Urban governance, poverty and urban housing. In: Musandu-Nyamayaro, O. and Mubvami, T. (eds.) Ford Foundation/DRUP Urban Governance Outreach Research. Department of Rural and Urban Planning, University of Zimbabwe: Harare, pp. 13-27.

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Articles

Kamete, A.Y. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4937-0593 (2008) Ageing in sub-Saharan African cities. Africa on the Global Agenda: Annual Report 2007, pp. 25-26.

Kamete, A.Y. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4937-0593 (2007) More than urban local governance?: warring over Zimbabwe's fading cities. African Renaissance, 3(2), pp. 34-46.

Kamete, A.Y. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4937-0593 (2007) Youth in urban governance: rationalities, encounters and interaction in Zimbabwe. Africa Insight, 37(3), pp. 327-343.

Kamete, A.Y. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4937-0593 (2005) ZANU-PF’s urban comeback bid: the hits and the miss. British Zimbabwe Review, 5(2), p. 6.

Books

Kamete, Amin Y. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4937-0593 (2019) A Decade of Zimbabwe: Politics, Economy, and Society – 2008-2017. Brill: Leiden. ISBN 9789004349063

Kamete, A.Y. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4937-0593 and Mubvami, T. (2001) Shelter Co-operatives in Zimbabwe. UN-Habitat: Nairobi, Kenya.

Book Sections

Kamete, A.Y. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4937-0593 (2004) Zimbabwe. In: Levinson, D. (ed.) Encyclopedia of Homelessness. Sage: Thousand Oaks, CA, pp. 623-626. ISBN 9780761927518

Book Reviews

Kamete, A.Y. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4937-0593 (2005) Review: 'African Voices on Development and Social Justice'. Afrika Spectrum, [Book Review]

Edited Books

Research Reports or Papers

Arnfred, S. et al. (2007) Rethinking Africa: a contribution to the Swedish Government White Paper on Africa. Discussion Paper. Nordic Africa Institute, Uppsala.

Kamete, A.Y. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4937-0593 (2001) The nature, extent and eradication of homelessness in Zimbabwe. Project Report. Newcastle University/DFID ESCOR Project R7905.

Conference Proceedings

Kamete, A.Y. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4937-0593 (2006) The challenge of local governance: planning and youth in urban Zimbabwe. In: Planning Africa Conference, Cape Town, 22-24 March 2006,

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Grants

Co-I: ‘The GCRF Centre for Sustainable, Healthy and Learning Cities and Neighbourhoods (SHLC)’, funded by UKRI/ESRC, £7.1 million. With over 50 researchers, SHLC is an international consortium of nine research partners aiming to strengthen capacity to address urbanisation and migration problems, health and education challenges in neighbourhoods in fast-growing cities in Africa and Asia. International partners include University of Glasgow, Human Sciences Research Council and University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa, Ifakara Health Institute of Tanzania, Khulna University in Bangladesh, Nankai University in China, National Institute of Urban Affairs of India, University of Rwanda, University of the Philippines Diliman.

Supervision

I am interested in supervising PhD students in a range of areas relating to my research interests, in particular:

Planning theory and practice
Development planning, development control and planning enforcement
Space and place
Spatialised repression and resistance
Urban planning and sustainability
Governmentality, urban governance and urban politics
Cities, space and power
Urban informality, marginality, violence and (in)security
Youth in African cities

Current research students

Lingqi Sun: Exploring a Fairer Urban Green Space Planning System in China: A case study of Shanghai.
Wanjie Xu: Tourism-led rural gentrification in peripheries of large inland cities in China

Past research students

Ganiyu Olalekan Bakare - (with Gareth James): Slum and Urban Poverty: Intergration of the Marginalised Urban Group as Key Urban Development Stakeholder in the City of Lagos, Nigeria
Ben Wilson (with Andy Smith): Scotland, Malawi and the post-development critique: an analysis of power and equality in international development.
Marjan Kloosterboer (with Ken Gibb): The ‘new’ Addis Ababa: shantytown or global city? An assessment of large-scale inner-city renewal, redevelopment and displacement for the construction of a ‘new’ Addis Ababa.
Liyuan Zhuang (with Ya Ping Wang): Neighbourhood attachment and participation in Chinese cities: A case study of Chengdu.
Zubeida Lowton (with Simon Joss): Socio-spatial transformations: Johannesburg and Cape Town public spaces.
John Cox - (with Annette Hastings): Defining ‘urban character’ and its influence on the physical outcomes of cities.
Michael O'Sullivan (with David Adams): To what extent can ‘planning for growth’ in Scotland be democratic and effective?
Erich Frank Hellmer (with Dennis Rodgers): Perti/enencia and public space: a politics of relevance, ownership and belonging in the historic/traditional center of Bogotá, Colombia
Adnan H K. Alsoul (with Rob Brooks) Deforestation in Jefara Plain, Libya: Socio-economic and Policy Drivers
Arbi J. Sarkissian (With Neal Hockley) Exploring Payments for Ecosystem Services in the Context of Native Tree Planting in Lebanon

Teaching

Convenor

Contemporary Planning Systems (URBAN5081) (PG)
Professional Practice, Ethics and Management (URBAN5091) (PG)
City Planning Theory and Practice (URBAN5099) (Course delivered at Nankai University, China at the University of Glasgow-Nankai University Joint Graduate School) (PG)

Contributing

Governance and Markets (URBAN5085) (PG)
Spatial Planning Strategies (URBAN5046) (PG)

Research datasets

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2023

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Member of the Royal Town Planning Institute (MRTPI)
Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA)
Member of the Zimbabwe Institute of Regional and Urban Planners (MZIRUP)
Member of the UKRI Talent Peer Review College (PRC)
Member of the ESRC Peer Review College.

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