The political economy of informal dog breeding businesses in Harare's high-density suburbs, Zimbabwe, 1990-2019.
This paper examines the emergence of informal dog breeding businesses in Zimbabwe's high-density suburbs between 1990 and 2019. It uses the dog breeding practices of the working-classes and informal workers as an entry point into the global dog historiography that overly focuses on the dog breeding...
| Published in: | Critical African Studies Vol. 13; no. 3; pp. 321 - 338 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Oct 2021
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