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Contentious development: peri-urban studies in sub-Saharan Africa

Urban and Evironmental Studies, Faculty of the Built Environment, South Bank University, London, UK, mbibab{at}sbu.ac.uk

Marie Huchzermeyer

Faculty of the Built Environment, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

This paper reviews the current state of literature on peri-urban research in sub-Saharan Africa. This research has been led by multi-lateral and bilateral development agencies that have sought to find a role in urban development. The review finds that the donor-driven research has remained largely descriptive. It has neither emphasized nor theorized the rapid and contentious peri-urban transformations associated with globalization. The paper identifies these contradictory transformations and then reviews a range of social development theories, suggesting to what extent they are useful to a meaningful engagement with these contradictions. It highlights in particular the potential role of structuration theory.

Key Words: contradictions • development theory • peri-urban transformations • sub-Saharan Africa

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