The Translocal Geography of Lodging in Urban Zimbabwe

Bys: Miriam R. Grant and Arja Vainio-Mattila

This book will argue that lodging is a hugely ignored, largely invisible but critical sector of housing provision and economic contributor of burgeoning African cities. It further connects the rural and the urban, challenging traditional definitions of locationally-bound communities. Lodgers create micro, local and translocal communities and the lodging system offers livelihood strategies. Rather than engage in the dominant portrayal of rural-urban as binary, dichotomous space, we maintain that lodging represents and supports the translocal community and relational networks of the extended family as it seeks to maximize access to resources.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3031737148
• ISBN13: 9783031737145
• Release Date: November 2025
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 0.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.3" x 0.6" x 5.8"