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Establishment of New Satellite Towns in Zimbabwe: Old Wine in New Skins?

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The widespread disenchantment (particularly acute in Africa) with the Western “development project” (McMichael 1996 in Arrighi 2002: 18) under the US hegemony, ushered in the new and growing economic dominance of China in East Asia and beyond.

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Chirisa, I., Bandauko, E., Muzenda, A. (2016). Establishment of New Satellite Towns in Zimbabwe: Old Wine in New Skins?. In: Peri-Urban Developments and Processes in Africa with Special Reference to Zimbabwe. SpringerBriefs in Geography. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-34231-3_9

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