Culture and Planning for Change and Continuity in Botswana

Hammami, Feras

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“…Halvorson and Hamilton (2010) also confirmed that most houses that were affected by the earthquake in 2005 Kashmir, Pakistan, were due to poorly constructed structures situated in disaster-prone areas. Worst still, building codes are not enforced in most rural areas in Botswana especially small villages, and this compounds the problem (Hammami, 2012). The major weakness of this traditional structure, however, is that at times it is not built properly; there is no prescribed standard, and it differs from district to district This document is copyrighted by the American Psychological Association or one of its allied publishers.…”

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Reducing the impact of climatological disasters in rural Botswana—Building disaster-resilient dwelling structures—A gendered perspective.

Moyo¹

2020

Traumatology

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The negative impact of disasters induced by climate change, if not proactively managed, could erode gains attained in the fight for gender equality in Botswana. This could lead to disempowerment, increased levels of poverty, and weakened resilience to climatological and related disasters. Empirical research on the impact of climatological disasters has centered primarily on livelihoods (agriculture and environment). However, limited research has been undertaken on the built environment. This article attempts to address the knowledge gap by exploring the resilience of women in the built environment, or more specifically, by examining rural Batswana women's resilience factors in the built environment and how these (houses/huts) could be further enhanced to withstand the impact of climatological hazards. It followed a qualitative research design and used a capability and gender analysis lens. The key findings indicate that women cannot afford to construct disaster-resilient residential structures due to existing power imbalances perpetuated by patriarchy. Women as caretakers of their families stay at home and are usually the last to evacuate or leave their places of residence when disasters eventuate. As a result, women were found to have higher levels of poverty, could not afford durable building material, had inadequate technical skills, and were generally climate illiterate. Consequently, the structures they construct are weak, less durable, and a potential risk to them and their families. Despite these challenges, women show signs of resilience rather than victimhood.

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Reducing the impact of climatological disasters in rural Botswana—Building disaster-resilient dwelling structures—A gendered perspective.

Moyo¹

2020

Traumatology

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“…It is outside our scope here to explore these global initiatives other than to note their relevance to the Maun context and the reality that poor public consultation and poor public understanding about land development is a common challenge to cultural sustainability worldwide (see Marcucci 2000 andHammami 2012 for two widely disparate examples) where more often than not officially planned developments override cultural spaces and features in a rural village like Maun. Cultural features that we identified during our research that do not appear in official planning maps are discussed in sections below.…”

Section: Modern Land-use Planning and Erasure Of Local Cultural Valuementioning

confidence: 98%

Community Cultural Identity in Nature-Tourism Gateway Areas: Maun Village, Okavango Delta World Heritage Site, Botswana

Keitumetse

Pampiri

2016

Journal of Community Archaeology & Heritage

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This paper focuses on our research in Maun village, near Okavango Delta, a World Heritage Site (OD-WHS), Botswana. We hoped to illuminate the presence and strength of 'dormant' community cultural identities, and to learn how they are constituted in cultural values and tied to landscapes that have become re-branded as nature-tourism areas. To unveil these 'dormant' cultural values, we conducted ethnographic interviews among the Maun village traditional leaders, Dikgosi (Chiefs), who are cultural custodians of communal heritage, to identify and re-acknowledge cultural and heritage values from communal memory. The aim was to create a balance between the nature tourism identity and the more fluid socio-cultural identities of people. Our results show that Maun village has communal cultural values that can complement the gateway tourism image. This work provides a model for other nature-tourism gateway communities who wish to salvage and safeguard the cultural heritage identities connected to their particular landscapes.

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“…Spokespersons for cultural planning have claimed that culture and cultural planning should be given greater attention in development processes, during which we should be more aware of 'how culture might be integrated in planning by critically rethinking the role of planners and knowledge' (Hammami 2012a). The potential inherent in considering culture and cultural diversity in planning processes is undisputable and has been addressed in numerous studies, and methods for practising cultural planning abound in the form of handbooks and toolkits (Young and Stevenson 2013).…”

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Is culture-led redevelopment relevant for rural planners? The risk of adopting urban theories in rural settings

Cruickshank

2016

International Journal of Cultural Policy

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In the paper, the author argues that cultural strategies and theories about urban planning may be irrelevant or even counterproductive outside urban and suburban contexts. In many rural settings the problem is not the destruction of the cultural heritage or how to counterbalance the influence from corporate interests, but rather the absence of such interests in the first place. From a study of two rural municipalities in southern Norway, the author demonstrates that culture-led strategies may be more of a distraction than an instrument for creating economic growth. Measured by the common goals for rural development in Norway, the cultural strategy has only been a success in one of the cases, whereas in the other case ideas about culture-led redevelopment have not prevented economic and demographic decline. The author concludes that while culture can be instrumental in creating growth in rural municipalities, it might also hamper their development.

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Culture and Planning for Change and Continuity in Botswana

Cited by 14 publications

References 11 publications

Reducing the impact of climatological disasters in rural Botswana—Building disaster-resilient dwelling structures—A gendered perspective.

Reducing the impact of climatological disasters in rural Botswana—Building disaster-resilient dwelling structures—A gendered perspective.

Community Cultural Identity in Nature-Tourism Gateway Areas: Maun Village, Okavango Delta World Heritage Site, Botswana

Is culture-led redevelopment relevant for rural planners? The risk of adopting urban theories in rural settings

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