Speaking Through Houses: Property and personhood in Zimbabwe's urban margins
Name of applicant
Amanda Hammar
Title
Professor
Institution
University of Copenhagen
Amount
DKK 1,007,337
Year
2024
Type of grant
Monograph Fellowships
Summary
This book unfolds an original conceptual-methodological approach called 'speaking through houses' that combines multilayered biographies and inner voices of houses with wider political and structural conditions. Grounded in Zimbabwean case studies, it makes a unique Africa-centric contribution to broader urban theory, and particularly to theorising the relationship between property and personhood.