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Dr S Bhatasara

Senior Lecturer

Dr S Bhatasara

 

Publications

  1.  Chiweshe, M.K and Bhatasara, S. (2016) Victims, Victors and Saviors: The Politics of Aid and Women’s Rights in Zimbabwe In Bonacker, T, von Heusinger, J and Zimmer, K. Localization in Development Aid: How Global Institutions enter Local Lifeworlds, Abingdon: Routledge.
  2. Bhatasara, S and Helliker, K. 2016. The Party-state in the Land Occupations of Zimbabwe: The case of Shamva District. Journal of Asian and African Studies. DOI: 10.1177/0021909616658316
  3. Bhatasara, S. 2015. Debating Sociology and Climate Change. Journal of Integrative Environmental Sciences, 12 (3):217-233.
  4. Bhatasara S, 2015. Understanding Corruption in Social Service Delivery in Zimbabwe: Case Studies from the Local Government Sector, in Mungai N Lenneiye. Political Economy of Corruption and the Battle for Accountability in Zimbabwe 2000-2015, Harare: Transparency International Zimbabwe, Chapter 4, pp 55-68.
  5. Bhatasara, S and Chiweshe, M.K. 2015. Universal Access to HIV Treatment in the Context of Vulnerability: Female Farm Workers in Zimbabwe, Health Care for Women International, 36, (2): 188-204.
  6. Nyamwanza, A.M and Bhatasara, S. 2015. The Utility of Postmodern Thinking in Climate Change Adaptation Research, Environment, Development and Sustainability, 17 (5) 1183-1196.
  7. Bhatasara, S. 2015. Rethinking Climate Change Research in Zimbabwe. Journal of Environmental Sciences and Studies, DOI 10.1007/s13412-015-0298-9.
  8. Mandizadza, E.J.R, Bhatasara, S and Nyamwanza, O. 2014. Land Reform Programme and Rural Tourism in Zimbabwe. University of Zimbabwe Publications. Chapter 13, 203-222.
  9. Chiweshe, M.K and Bhatasara, S, 2013, Ndezve varume izvi: Hegemonic Masculinities and Misogyny in Popular Music in Zimbabwe, CODESRIA Africa Media Review, 21 (1 and 2):151-170.
  10. Bhatasara, S. 2013. Globalization, Social Policies and the Nation State, Journal of Globalization Studies, 4 (2): 48-59.
  11. Bhatasara, S, Nyamwanza, A.M and Kujinga, K. 2013. Transfrontier parks and Development in Southern Africa: The case of the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park, Development Southern Africa, 30 (4-5):629-639.
  12. Bhatasara S, 2013, Black granite mining and the Implications for the Development of Sustainability in Zimbabwe: The Case of Mutoko Communities, Environment, Development and Sustainability, 15:1527-1541.
  13. Bhatasara S, Chevo , T and Changadeya, T. 2013. An Exploratory Study of Male Adolescents Sexuality in Urban Zimbabwe: The Case of Adolescents in Kuwadzana Extension, Harare, Journal of Anthropology Vol 2013.
  14. Chevo, T and Bhatasara, S, 2012, HIV and AIDS Programmes in Zimbabwe: Implications for the Health System, ISRNImmunology, Vol 2012.
  15. Bhatasara, S, 2011, From Globalization to Global Sustainability: Perspectives on Transitions, Journal of Global Citizenship and Equity Education, 1 (1):1-14.
  16. Bhatasara, S and Helliker, K. (2016). The Party-state in the Land Occupations of Zimbabwe: The case of Shamva District. Journal of Asian and African Studies. DOI: 10.1177/0021909616658316.
  17. Bhatasara, S. (2015). Rethinking Climate Change Research in Zimbabwe. Journal of Environmental Sciences and Studies, DOI 10.1007/s13412-015-0298-9.
  18. Bhatasara, S. (2015). Debating Sociology and Climate Change. Journal of Integrative Environmental Sciences, 12 (3):217-233.
  19. Bhatasara, S and Chiweshe, M.K. (2015). Universal Access to HIV Treatment in the Context of Vulnerability: Female Farm Workers in Zimbabwe, Health Care for Women International, 36, (2): 188
  20. Chiweshe, M.K. and Bhatasara, S. 2019. Women in Agriculture in Contemporary Africa. In Palgrave Handbook of African Women’s Studies, Olamujoke and F. Toyin. London: Palgrave Macmillan
  21. Bhatasara, S., Chiweshe, M.K. and Muparamoto, N. 2019. Stolen Childhood: Understanding Sexualization of Young Girls through “Child Marriage” in Zimbabwe. In The Cambridge Handbook of Sexual Development, New York: Cambridge University Press
  22. Chiweshe, M.K and Bhatasara, S. 2018. Performing Manhood in Zimdancehall: Music as Partriachised Space in Zimbabwe. Performing Zimbabwe: A Transdisciplinary Study of Zimbabwean Music, L.G. Amoros and M.T. Vambe (eds.) pp. 251-273. Durban: University of KwaZulu Natal Press
  23. Bhatasara, S (2018). Understanding Adaptation to Climate Variability in Smallholder Farming Systems in Eastern Zimbabwe: A Sociological Perspective, Review of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Studies, https://doi.org/10.1007/s41130-018-0074-9
  24. Helliker, K and Bhatasara, S (2018). Inside the land occupations in Bindura district, Zimbabwe, African Studies Quarterly, 18 (1): 1-17.
  25. Bhatasara, S and Nyamwanza, A.M. 2018. Sustainability: A missing Dimension in Climate Change Adaptation in Africa, Journal of Integrative Environmental Studies and Sciences, 15 (1): 87-102.
  26. Bhatasara, S and Helliker, K. 2018. The Party-state in the Land Occupations of Zimbabwe: The case of Shamva District. Journal of Asian and African Studies, 53 (1):81-97.
  27. Bhatasara, S, Chiweshe, M.K and Helliker, K. (2018). Introduction: Theorising the political economy of livelihoods in contemporary Zimbabwe, In, Helliker, K, Chiweshe, M.K and Bhatasara, S. (eds) (2018). The Political Economy of Livelihoods in Contemporary Zimbabwe, London and New York: Routledge, pp 1-25.
  28. Bhatasara, S. (2018). Climate variability in local scales: Narratives and ambivalences from Mutoko District, In Helliker, K, Chiweshe, M.K and Bhatasara, S. (eds) (2018). The Political Economy of Livelihoods in Contemporary Zimbabwe, London and New York: Routledge, pp 139-153.
  29. Nyamwanza, A.M. and Bhatasara, S. (2017). Exploring Pathways to Private Sector Investment in Climate Change Adaptation and Resilience in Africa, Africa Insight, 47 (2): 54-64.
  30. Bhatasara, S, Shamuyedova, R, Choguya, N.Z and Chiweshe, M.K. 2017. Women and Pentecostalism in Zimbabwe: Negotiating Leadership in the Zimbabwe Assemblies of God ‘Forward in Faith’ (Zaoga fif) Ministry, Harare, In Wilkinson, M and Althouse, P (eds). Pentecostals and the Body, Leiden: Brill. pp 291-306.
  31. Mudege, N.N, Mdege, N, Abidin, P.E and Bhatasara, S. 2017. The role of gender norms in access to agricultural training in Chikwawa and Phalombe, Malawi, Gender, Place and Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography, 24 (12): 1689-1710.
  32. Bhatasara, S. 2017. Towards a Sociology of Adaptation to rainfall variability in rural Zimbabwe: The case of Charewa in Mutoko, Fudan Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences,10 (4): 547-568.
  33. Bhatasara, S and Chiweshe M.K .2017. Beyond Gender: Interrogating women’s experiences in FTLRP in Zimbabwe, Africa Review, 9 (2): 154-172.

 

Edited Books

Helliker, K., Chiweshe, M.K. and Bhatasara, S. (eds.) 2018. Political Economy of Livelihoods in Contemporary Zimbabwe, London: Routledge

Dr S.D. Chingarande

Senior Lecturer

Dr S.D. Chingarande

Key Research Area(s): Gender and Women Empowerment

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Publications

1. Chingarande S. D (forthcoming) Climate Change and Rural Livelihoods in Guruve District: a Gender Analysis in Alternation Volume 20 number 2
2. Mugabe, P. H, Kujinga K & Chingarande S.D (forthcoming) Land reform migrations and forest resources management in Zimbabwe
3. Chingarande S.D (forthcoming) A Gender Analysis of Coping with Poverty in Zimbabwe: A Historical Perspective in Chitando. E, Phiri, G and Nyakudya, M (eds) Scaling New Heights? The Zimbabwean Economy and Society, 1998-2008, Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
4. Chingarande, S.D (forthcoming) Local Perceptions Of Poverty In Zimbabwe in Manjengwa, J (ed)‘Understanding poverty, promoting wellbeing and sustainable development: A sample survey of 16 districts in Zimbabwe’
5. Chingarande, S.D, Mugabe, P.H, Kujinga, K&Magaisa E 2012 Struggles within struggles: Gender and Land Reform Experiences In Chimanimani, Zimbabwe. Journal of Social Development in Africa Special Issue Volume 27 No. 1
6. Kujinga, K, Chingarande, S.D, Mugabe. P.H 2012 Interface between Research, Development and Local Actors in Enhancing Sustainable Forest Resources Management: Lessons From Chimanimani District, Zimbabwe. Journal of Social Development in Africa Special Issue Volume 27 No. 1
7. Chingarande, S.D 2009 The Women’s Movement and the struggle for land in Zimbabwe, CLACSO Southern Paper Series # 3
8. Chingarande S.D 2008 Gender and the Struggle for Land Equity in Zimbabwe in Contested Terrain: Land Reform and Civil Society in Contemporary Zimbabwe, Sam Moyo, Kirk Helliker and Tendai Murisa (eds), S&S Publishing
9. Chingarande S.D 2004 Review of the Zimbabwean Agricultural Sector following the Implementation of the Land Reform: Gender and the Fast Track Land reform in Zimbabwe, Monograph Series Issue No 6/2004, African Institute for Agrarian Studies, Harare
10. Chingarande, S.D 2011 A Critical Review of the National Youth Service programme in Zimbabwe, NANGO, Zimbabwe
11. Chingarande, S.D 2010 Gender and Livelihoods in Nyabamba A1 Resettlement Area, Chimanimani District of Manicaland Province in Zimbabwe, Livelihoods After Land Reform in Zimbabwe, Working Paper #5
12. Gutsa, I & Chingarande, S.D 2009 'Changing Residential Composition in a Home for the Elderly? The Case of Bumhudzo Hospital Home in Chitungwiza, Zimbabwe' in Journal of Sustainable Development in Africa Volume 11 Number 1 2009
13. Chingarande S.D 2007 “An analysis of Gender Related Developments and challenges in Zimbabwe since Independence” in Maphosa, F, Kujinga K and Chingarande S.D (eds) Zimbabwe’s Development Experiences since 1980: Challenges and Prospects for the Future
14. Chingarande S.D and Maphosa, F 2007 “Migration as a Coping Strategy: The Case of Illegal Migrants from Zimbabwe to the United Kingdom and South Africa” in Maphosa, F, Kujinga K and Chingarande S.D (eds) Zimbabwe’s Development Experiences since 1980: Challenges and Prospects for the Future

Dr T. Chevo

 Senior Lecturer

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Dr Tafadzwa Chevo

Qualifications: Ph.D. (Rhodes); MSc (Erasmus); MSc (UZ). BSc Hons Sociology (UZ).

Autobiography

Dr Tafadzwa Chevo is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Demography Settlement and Development at the University of Zimbabwe as well as a Research Associate at Rhodes University’s Institute of Zimbabwean Studies. He obtained his PhD from Rhodes University’s Sociology Department and two Masters Degrees in Urban Social Development from Erasmus University and Sociology & Social Anthropology from the University of Zimbabwe. For his doctoral research, Tafadzwa combined qualitative and quantitative methodologies in a diachronic and synchronic study of livelihood practices to obtain insights on agency, marginality and territorial stigmatisation. Tafadzwa has more than twelve years of experience in design and management of programs and projects combined with research interests and advisory expertise in building resilience in rural and urban localities, climate change, livelihood practices, poverty and the impact of policies and interventions. Tafadzwa has worked and consulted for several organisations which include ZRBF/UNDP, RWI-Sweden, CIP-Kenya, IES, UNICEF, UNESCO, Practical Action and ZNANGO.

Publications and Research Profile

 

Dr Thebeth Rufaro Masunda

Lecturer

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Dr Thebeth Rufaro Masunda

Qualifications: Bachelor of Community and Development (Honours), Master of Development Studies and PhD in Development Studies from University of KwaZulu Natal (KZN).

Bio: Dr. Thebeth, Rufaro Masunda is the chairperson and a Full-Time Lecturer in the Department of Community and Social Development at the University of Zimbabwe. She holds a Bachelor of Community and Development (Honours), Master of Development Studies and PhD in Development Studies from University of KwaZulu Natal (KZN). She is the Programme Coordinator for the BSc Social Innovation and BSc Smart Technology Applications degree programme, as well as the University Wide Digital Skills and Student Life Skills modules. Her research interests are in Migration and Family Studies, Social and Economic Development, Education and Development. As an academic, development practitioner and researcher she does research in socio-economic welfare of the marginalised groups in society. She has conducted extensive research on migration between South Africa and Zimbabwe. Most her research focused on the effects of migration on migrants and their family members during the migration period.  Her studies also investigated remittance transfers and transnational lives of migrants. Dr Masunda’s research interests are in social innovation, family studies, poverty and inequality and the education and development nexus. Dr Masunda as Editorial Member for the UZ PRESS, FIIB Business Review, Journal of Public Policy in Africa (JOPPA), as well as an External Examiner of PhD dissertations at the Women’s University.

Research Interests: Socio-economic welfare of marginalised group, Migration and family Studies, Poverty and Inequality, Gender and Social Development

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Phone Number: +263 775789347

Publications and Research Profiles: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=L5-IIFUAAAAJ

Dr W. Ruparanganda

Senior Lecturer

Dr W.Ruparanganda 

DPhil in Social Science (UZ); MSc in Sociology and Social Anthropology, (UZ); BSc Honours in Sociology (UZ);Certificate in Education (Mkoba Teachers College)

Key Research area: Sexuality and Reproductive Health, Urban Poverty, Gender Issues.
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Books
1. Ruparanganda Watch 2011, Genitals Are Assets; Sexual Behaviour Patterns of Street Children of Harare, Lambert Academic Publishers, Germany
2. Ruparanganda Watch 2012, Children with Adult Hearts; The Case of Child-Headed Households of Highfield, Harare, Lambert Academic Publishing, Germany.

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