Format:
xv, 523 Seiten :
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Illustrationen, Diagramme, Karten.
ISBN:
978-0-367-43171-6
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978-1-032-21194-7
Series Statement:
Routledge Studies in Anthropology
Content:
This volume offers valuable anthropological insight into urban Africa, covering a range of cities across a continent that has become one of the fastest urbanizing geographic areas of the globe. Consideration is given to the structures, social formations, and rhythms that constitute the definition of an African city, town, or urban space, and to current concepts for thinking about African cities in the twenty-first century. The contributors examine topics including notions of belonging, the effects of globalization, colonialism, and transnationalism on African urban life, the cultural dimensions of infrastructure and public resources, mobility, labor issues, spatial organization, language, and popular culture trends, among other themes. The book reflects on how the ethnography of urban Africa fits within anthropology and urban studies, and on new theoretical concepts and methodologies that can be created through anthropological fieldwork in African cities. It will be of particular interest to scholars and students from anthropology, African studies and urban studies, as well as sociology and geography
Note:
- Urban Infrastructure and Mobility ; 12 The Infrastructure of Submarine Urbanism: Zanzibar in a Black and Blue World; Garth Myers; 13 Temporalities of Absence: Infrastructural Politics and Time in Cape Town’s Informal Settlements; Angela Storey; 14 Sorting ‘Wire Spaghetti’ in Zanzibar Stone Town; Rose Marie Beck; 15 Modernity and the Art of Motorcycle Citizenship: Getting to Work in Nigeria’s Planned Capital; Rudolf Gaudio; Part V. Power of Urban Belongingness; 16 We Were Running and Running: Rural-Urban Imaginaries and Strategic Mobility During the Liberian Civil War; Mary H. Moran; 17 Reclaiming Citizenship: The Performance and Contestation of the Rural-Urban Distinction in Northern Ghana; Saida Hodžic; 18 Religious Relevance Capital; the Urban Anthropology of Religious Diversity and the Significance of Social Support. The Case of Urban Religion in Botswana; Rijk van Dijk; 19 Property, Mobility, and Belonging in an African Metropolis; Matthew Nesvet; Part VI. . - - Language and the City; 20 Urban Surfaces and Linguistic Landscape: Writing, Power and Ideology in Dakar’s Public Space; Fiona McLaughlin; 21 Naming the Future in Urban Niger: The Scriptural Economy of the Fadas; Adeline Masquelier; 22 Igboro ni mo wa: Popular Linguistic Innovation in Urban Yoruba Lives; Augustine Agwuele; Part VII. Conclusion; 23 Conclusion; Afterword; Abdoumaliq Simone
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe ISBN 978-1-003-00353-3
Language:
English
Subjects:
Ethnology
Keywords:
Verstädterung
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Infrastruktur
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Mobilität
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Zugehörigkeit
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Sprache
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