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Living the city in Africa : processes of invention and intervention / Brigit Obrist, Veit Arlt and Elísio Macamo (eds.).
- Title
- Living the city in Africa : processes of invention and intervention / Brigit Obrist, Veit Arlt and Elísio Macamo (eds.).
- Publication
- Zürich ; Münster : Lit, [2013]
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- Description
- 304 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- Schweizerische Afrikastudien ; Band 10 Études africaines suisses ; Tome 10
- Uniform Title
- Schweizerische Afrikastudien ; Bd. 10.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Conference papers and proceedings
- Note
- Papers presented at a conference held Oct., 2010.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Preface / Veit Arlt -- Introduction to Living the city in Africa / Brigit Obrist -- Urban politics. Invention and intervention in African cities / Jo Beall -- Urban planning in Africa and the politics of implementation : contrasting patterns of state intervention in Kampala and Kigali / Tom Goodfellow -- Ordering urban space and migrants' protests in Sabongari, Kano, 1911-1960 / Rasheed Olaniyi -- Youth gangs and urban political protests : a relational perspective on Conakry's "Axis of Evil" / Joschka Philipps -- Transnational urbanism. Translocal urbanism : how Ouagadougou strategically uses decentralized cooperation / Ola Söderström, Blaise Dupuis, Pierrick Leu -- From best practices to abolitionist approach : Durban's street trading policy in the run-up to the 2010 World Cup / Ercüment Celik -- Urban memories and utopies : contemporary art in Luanda and Nairobi / Ulf Vierke, Nadine Siegert -- Urban moves. On the move : elderly people living the city of Car es Salaam, Tanzania / Jana Gerold -- HomeSpace : Maputo dwelling processes in the rapidly expanding peri-urban areas of an African city / Silje Erøy Sollien, Jørgen Eskemose Andersen, Ana Bénard da Costa, Paul Jenkins -- Sexuality in cosmopolitan Maputo : the aesthetics of gendered practice through the lenses of class / Sandra Manuel -- Signifying competence : herbalists in Kinshasa's urban context / Valérie Liebs, Blaise Bikandu, Lassa Kanda, Félicien Lukoki, Nikolaus Schareika, Barbara Fruth -- Urban creativity. On urbanity : creativity and emancipation in African urban life / Till Förster -- Performing (in)visibilities in public space : reflections on the social and aesthetic agenda of contemporary performance art in Johannesburg / Fiona Siegenthaler -- Reading urbanity : trans-urban assemblages in the N'ko literacy and healing movement of West Africa / Joseph Hellweg, Sory Kourouma -- Conclusion and outlook. Living effervescence : the social in African urban settings / Elísio Macamo.
- ISBN
- 9783643801524 (pbk.)
- OCLC
- 852732929
- SCSB-11625276
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library