- Additional Authors
- Description
- xiii, 235 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "Across Africa, protracted economic crises and enduring class stratification have impacted a majority of the continent's city-dwellers, meaning that urban residents are forced to draw on their own resources and skills, often adopting experimental approaches to sustaining access to services and livelihoods. This 'do-it-yourself' urbanism has generally been appraised through a developmental lens, in which case studies are understood in isolation. In this book, a comparative and cross-regional approach seeks to analyze this phenomenon across the continent, and to gain an understanding of the dynamics of DIY urbanism in a range of cities where urban residents experience economic distress and marginalization. Does DIY urbanism present a form of resistance, or merely an acquiescence, to the inequalities that make it necessary? And what prospect is there for a radical politics to come out of this grassroots organization, to make cities work better for their poorest, and most marginalised, residents?"--
- Series Statement
- Africa now
- Uniform Title
- Africa now (Zed Books)
- Alternative Title
- Do-it-yourself urbanism in Africa
- Subject
- Note
- "First published in Great Britain 2024 in association with the Nordic Africa Institute"--Title page verso.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 200-228) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: Do-it-yourself Urbanism in Africa's Cities / Patience Mususa and Stephen Marr -- Comparative DIY Urbanisms: Reflections on a Concept's Pasts, Presents and Futures / Stephen Marr -- The Makeshift City and Do-it-yourself (DIY) Urbanism / Martin J. Murray -- Reflections on the DIY Paradigm and Urban Living in Nigeria / Mohamed-Bello Yunusa -- DIY Urbanism in an African Context and its Potential as a Collaborative Placemaking Tool for Bridging Africa's Urban Infrastructure Deficit / Mathias Agbo Jr. -- Political Economy of Community-Led Security Provisioning in Urban Africa / Victor Adetula -- The Politics of Urban Insecurity: Hybrid relations and party dominance in Lagos / Nigeria, Henrik Angerbrandt -- 'Accra We Dey': Precarious Histories, Creative Place-Making, and Reimagined Futures in Urban Ghana / Jennifer Hart -- Everyday spatial practices and production of urban commons in Accra, Ghana / Victoria Okoye -- Learning from DIY urbanism: Lessons from Freetown / Federico Monica -- DIY Urbanism as Ecotopia: The Case of the Green Camp Gallery in Durban, South Africa / Antje Daniel -- Disability and Urbanism in Malawi / Jonathan Makuwira -- The Biopolitics of Do-it-yourself Urbanism on the Zambian Copperbelt / Patience Mususa -- Concusion: DIY Urbanism as Politics of Interruption / Stephen Marr and Patience Mususa.
- ISBN
- 9781786999016
- 1786999013
- 9781786999023
- 1786999021
- 9781786999030 (canceled/invalid)
- 178699903X (canceled/invalid)
- 9781786999061 (canceled/invalid)
- 1786999064 (canceled/invalid)
- 9781350237537 (canceled/invalid)
- 1350237531 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2023008147
- OCLC
- YBP 2023008147
- Title
DIY urbanism in Africa : politics and practice / [edited by] Stephen Marr and Patience Mususa.
- Publisher
London ; New York : Zed, 2024.
- Type of Content
text
- Type of Medium
unmediated
- Type of Carrier
volume
- Series
Africa now
Africa now (Zed Books)
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 200-228) and index.
- Added Author
Marr, Stephen, editor.
Mususa, Patience, editor.
- Other Form:
Online version: DIY urbanism in Africa 1. London ; New York : Zed, 2023 9781786999061 (DLC) 2023008148