Amin Kamete

Amin Kamete is a Professor of Spatial Planning at the University of Glasgow. Before joining Urban Studies at the University of Glasgow, Amin was lecturer in planning in the School of Environment, Natural Resources and Geography at Bangor University, Wales. A chartered town planner, Amin launched his academic career at the University of Zimbabwe in the Department of Rural and Urban Planning after which he joined the Nordic Africa Institute in Sweden as a Research Programme Coordinator.

His main areas of interest are the study of urban spatial planning, cities, space and power in the Global South. More recently, He has tried to bring together work on contemporary planning theory and planning practice with particular emphasis on governmentality in the context of development planning, development management and planning enforcement practice vis-à-vis informality, marginality, (in)security and sustainability in sub-Saharan Africa. Some of his other work considers urban development, urban governance, urban conditions and urban politics as they relate to marginalised groups and the wider significance of spatialised repression and resistance.

Recent publications:

Kamete, A.Y. (2020). Neither friend nor enemy: planning, ambivalence and the invalidation of urban informality in Zimbabwe. Urban Studies, 57(5): 927–943.

Kamete, A.Y. (2017). Of good plants and useless weeds: planning as a technology of the gardening state. Planning Theory, 17(2) 253–273.

Kamete, A.Y. (2018). A concept ‘vandalised’? – Seeing and doing e-planning in practice. International Journal of E-Planning Research, 7(1):1–14.

Kamete, A.Y. (2018). Pernicious assimilation: reframing the integration of the urban informal economy in Southern Africa. Urban Geography, 39(2): 167–189.

Kamete, A.Y. (2017). Governing enclaves of informality: unscrambling the logic of the camp in urban Zimbabwe. Geoforum, 81: 76–96.