Phillip Fungurai is a DAAD funded interdisciplinary development scholar-practitioner working at the intersection of development, urban transformation, urban governance, infrastructure regression, public policy, democracy and human rights. He is pursuing a PhD in International Development Studies at Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany. His doctoral research examines the ruralization of urban spaces in Zimbabwe, exploring how infrastructural collapse reshapes everyday urban life and produces new forms of survival, governance and socio-political organisation. Focusing on infrastructure regression, it brings together urban studies, development theory, urban political ecology, and Southern urbanism to question linear assumptions about urbanisation and development. His research interests encompass, urban futures in the Global South, infrastructural transformation, urban governance, human rights and democratic participation. He holds a Master of Arts in Development Management (Ruhr University, Bochum); a Masters in Public Administration (University of Western Cape, South Africa) and a Bsc Honours in Peace and Governance (Bindura University of Science Education, Zimbabwe).

• Urbanization and Development
• Urban Governance
• Urban Decline
• Democratic Participation and Good Governance

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