@article{1484748,
      recid = {1484748},
      author = {Bhanye, Johannes Itai, and Mangara, Fortune, and  Matamanda, Abraham R., and Kachena, Lameck,},
      title = {COVID-19 lockdowns and the urban poor in Harare, Zimbabwe  : emerging perspectives and the morphing of a sustainable  urban future /},
      pages = {1 online resource (xix, 134 pages) :},
      abstract = {This book focuses on the socio-economic impacts of the  COVID-19 pandemic and associated lockdowns on the welfare  of the urban poor in the city of Harare, Zimbabwe. The  authors look through the lenses of the urban health  penalty, the right to the city, complexity theory, and  distributive justice theory. These four theories help  situate the COVID-19 pandemic and its impacts on the urban  poor in the theoretical foundations that raise issues of  how the poor are affected by disease/health pandemics, due  to their living conditions. Uniquely, the authors use  remote ethnography tools such as rich texts, video diaries  and photo uploads to provide evidence-based stories of how  COVID-19 mobility restrictions have affected poor urbanites  in Harare. The book concludes that the COVID-19 pandemic  mandatory lockdowns have deepened social and spatial  inequality among the urban poor, threatening their right to  the city. The socio-economic impacts can upsurge poverty,  increase unemployment and the risks of hunger and food  insecurity, reinforce existing inequalities, and break  social harmony in the cities, even past the COVID-19  pandemic period. These socioeconomic impacts must be  considered to make just cities for all, from a  right-to-the-city perspective. The authors recommend that  mandatory COVID-19 lockdowns should not only be treated as  a law-and-order operation but as a medical intervention to  stem the spread of the virus backed by measures to  safeguard the livelihoods of the urban poor while also  protecting the economy. This means governments should  provide social safety nets to informal sector operators  whose income-generating activities are affected the most  during the time of emergencies like COVID-19. Planners and  policymakers should re-envision pandemic-resilient cities  that are just, equitable, resilient, and sustainable.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1484748},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-41669-9},
}