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.
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.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Deborah Pellow is a Professor Emerita in the Anthropology Department in the Maxwell School at Syracuse University, New York, USA. Suzanne Scheld is a Professor in the Anthropology Department at California State University, Northridge, USA.
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Part I: Introduction 1 Introduction Deborah Pellow and Suzanne Scheld Part II. Knowing the City and Urban Imaginaries 2 Kafanchan: A Nigerian Town and its Global Horizons Ulf Hannerz 3 Beyond the Rhodes Livingstone-Institute. Anthropological Research in Urban Africa from the 1930s to the 2000s Katja Werthmann 4 Seeing the African Urban: Toward a Visual Anthropology of African Cities Danny Hoffman 5 Mediated Ethnography: Images, Infrastructure, and New Imaginaries in Urban Africa William Bissell 6 Class, Cities, and the Multiple-Disposition Habitus: Theoretical Insights from an African City Anne Lewinson Part III. Urban Spaces 7 South Sudan, Politics of Liberation and Contest Over Juba Jok Madut Jok 8 Manantali, Mali: Urbanization in and around a Small Town in the West Africa Savanna Dolores Koenig 9 Place-Making, Regulatory Politics, and the Roots of Informality in Colonial Accra Jennifer Hart 10 Schubart Park: Spatializing Opportunity in Colonial and Postcolonial South Africa William Suk 11 On 'Worlding' Urban Ethnography: Conceptualizing Scalar Reconfigurations in an Ethiopian Frontier City Daniel K. Thompson, Jemal Yusuf Mahamed, and Kader Mohamoud Part IV. 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 Hodi¿ 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
Part I: Introduction 1 Introduction Deborah Pellow and Suzanne Scheld Part II. Knowing the City and Urban Imaginaries 2 Kafanchan: A Nigerian Town and its Global Horizons Ulf Hannerz 3 Beyond the Rhodes Livingstone-Institute. Anthropological Research in Urban Africa from the 1930s to the 2000s Katja Werthmann 4 Seeing the African Urban: Toward a Visual Anthropology of African Cities Danny Hoffman 5 Mediated Ethnography: Images, Infrastructure, and New Imaginaries in Urban Africa William Bissell 6 Class, Cities, and the Multiple-Disposition Habitus: Theoretical Insights from an African City Anne Lewinson Part III. Urban Spaces 7 South Sudan, Politics of Liberation and Contest Over Juba Jok Madut Jok 8 Manantali, Mali: Urbanization in and around a Small Town in the West Africa Savanna Dolores Koenig 9 Place-Making, Regulatory Politics, and the Roots of Informality in Colonial Accra Jennifer Hart 10 Schubart Park: Spatializing Opportunity in Colonial and Postcolonial South Africa William Suk 11 On 'Worlding' Urban Ethnography: Conceptualizing Scalar Reconfigurations in an Ethiopian Frontier City Daniel K. Thompson, Jemal Yusuf Mahamed, and Kader Mohamoud Part IV. 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 Hodi¿ 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
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