Dr A. Kamete - Staff Profile

Dr Amin Kamete
Lecturer in Planning

Thoday Building, room F18

Email: a.kamete@bangor.ac.uk

Tel: 01248 388660 (from U.K.)
+44 1248 388660 (International)

Fax: 01248 354997 (from U.K.)
+44 1248 354997 (International)

Responsibilities within SENRGY/BU

Course Director: BA Environmental Planning and Management

Qualifications and Membership of Professional Bodies

PhD (Bangor University)
MSc, BSc (Hons.) (University of Zimbabwe)
Member of the Royal Town Planning Institute (MRTPI)
Member of the Zimbabwe Institute of Regional and Urban Planners (MZIRUP)
Member of the European Network of Housing Researchers (ENHR)
Member of the African Studies Association (ASA)

Research Interests

Planning theory and practice
Development management and control practice
Urban planning, policy and sustainability
Urban governance and politics
Cities, space and power
Urban low-income housing
Comparative planning and policies

Research Students

Al-Soul, A. Degradation of natural resources in the coastal plain of Libya (2010 – 13)

Sarkissian, A.J. Biodiversity considered: towards new conservation prospects for native tree species through local biodiversity governance and tree planning schemes – Lebanon as a case study (2011–2014)

Websites

Personal website

Recent Publications

Kamete, A.Y. (2012) Interrogating planning’s power in an African city: time for reorientation? Planning Theory 11: 66-88.

Kamete, A.Y. (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 in press January 2012

Kamete, A.Y. (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. Centre for Sustainable Development, Uppsala University, Uppsala, pp. 79-96.

Kamete, A.Y. (2011) Zimbabwe. In Mehler, A., Melber, H. and Van Walraven, K. (eds.), Africa Yearbook 7: Politics, economy and society south of the Sahara in 2010. Brill, Leiden and Boston, pp. 535-545.

Kamete, A.Y. (2010) Hanging out with 'trouble-causers': planning and governance in urban Zimbabwe. In Harper, T., Costa, H., Yeh, A. and Hibbard, M. (eds.), Dialogues in Urban and Regional Planning 4. Routledge, London, pp. 12-37.

Kamete, A.Y. and Lindell, I. (2010) The politics of "non-planning" interventions in African cities: unravelling the international and local dimensions in Harare and Maputo. Journal of Southern African Studies 36: 889-912.

Kamete, A.Y. (2010) Zimbabwe. In Mehler, A., Melber, H. and van Walraven, K. (eds.), Africa Yearbook 6: Politics, economy and society south of the Sahara in 2009. Brill, Leiden & Boston, pp. 505-516.

Kamete, A.Y. (2010) Defending illicit livelihoods. Youth resistance in Harare's contested spaces. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 34: 55-75:

Kamete, A.Y. (2009) Zimbabwe. In Mehler, A., Melber, H. and Walraven, K.v. (eds.), Africa Yearbook 5: Politics, economy and society south of the Sahara. Brill, Leiden & Boston, pp. 505-516.

Kamete, A.Y. (2009) "For Enhanced Civic Participation in Local Governance": calling tyranny to account in Harare. Environment and Urbanization 21: 59–75.

Kamete, A.Y. (2009) Hanging out with 'trouble-causers': planning and governance in urban Zimbabwe. Planning Theory and Practice 10: 85-103.

Kamete, A.Y. (2009) In the service of tyranny: debating the role of planning in Zimbabwe's urban 'clean-up' operation. Urban Studies 46: 897-922.

Kamete, A.Y. (2008) Ageing in sub-Saharan African cities. In: Annual Report 2007 Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, Uppsala. pp 25-26.

Kamete, A.Y. (2008) Planning versus youth: stamping out spatial unruliness in Harare. Geoforum 39: 1721-1733.

Kamete, A.Y. (2007) Cold-hearted, negligent and spineless? - Planning, planners and the (r)ejection of "filth" in urban Zimbabwe. International Planning Studies 12: 153-171.

Kamete, A.Y. (2007) Of jinxes and blessings: the opposition in Zimbabwe's urban local governance. In: Political opposition in African countries: the cases of Kenya, Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Discussion Paper 37 (ed. Melber, H.), The Nordic Africa Insitute, Uppsala. pp 39-60.

Kamete, A.Y. (2007) The management of urban development in Zambia (book review). Urban Studies 44: 2272-2274.

Kamete, A.Y. (2007) When livelihoods take a battering ...: mapping the 'new gold rush' in the Angwa-Pote basin. Transformation 65: 36-67.

Kamete, A.Y. (2007) Youth in urban governance: rationalities, encounters and interaction in Zimbabwe. Africa Insight 37: 327-343.

Kamete, A.Y. (2007) Zimbabwe. In: Homelessness handbook (ed. Levinson, D. and Ross, M.), Berkshire Publishing Group, Great Barrington, MA. pp 414-418.

Kamete, A.Y. (2007) Zimbabwe. In: Africa Yearbook 3: Politics, economy and society south of the Sahara in 2006 (ed. Mehler, A., Melber, H. and van Walraven, K.), Brill, Leiden & Boston. pp 501-511.

Kamete, A.Y. (2006) 'At the bottom of the social heap': a youth underclass in Harare? Journal of Youth Studies 9: 67-89.

Kamete, A.Y. (2006) More than urban local governance? Warring over Zimbabwe's fading cities. African Renaissance 3: 34-46.

Kamete, A.Y. (2006) Participatory farce? - Youth and the making of urban places in Zimbabwe. International Development Planning Review 28: 359-380.

Kamete, A.Y. (2006) Revisiting the urban housing crisis in Zimbabwe: some forgotten dimensions? Habitat International 30: 981-995.

Kamete, A.Y. (2006) The return of the jettisoned: ZANU-PF's crack at re-urbanising in Harare. Journal of Southern African Studies 32: 256-271.

Kamete, A.Y. (2006) Zimbabwe. In: Africa Yearbook 2: Politics, economy and society south of the Sahara in 2005 (ed. Mehler, A., Melber, H. and van Walraven, K.), Brill, Leiden & Boston. pp 497-508.

Kamete, A.Y. (2006) African voices on development and social justice (book review). Afrika Spectrum 40: 561-565.

Kamete, A.Y. (2005) ZANU-PF's urban comeback bid: the hits and the misses. British Zimbabwe Review 5: 6-8.

Kamete, A.Y. (2005) Zimbabwe. In: Africa Yearbook: Politics, economy and society south of the Sahara in 2004 (ed. Mehler, A., Melber, H. and van Walraven, K.), Brill, Leiden. pp 481-493.

Other Interests

Social theory
Philosophy of Social Science

Other Information

Member of the editorial board of the Open Urban Studies Journal.

External reviewer for international academic and professional journals, among them: The International Journal of Urban and Regional Research; Environment and Planning D: Society and Space; Geoforum; Geografiska Annaler Series B: Human Geography; Habitat International; Journal of Housing and the Built Environment; Danish Journal of Geography; The Journal of Social Development in Africa; The Journal of Youth Studies; The Open Urban Studies Journal; Urban Studies; Journal of Social Sciences; and Housing Studies.