Danny Hoffman

Monrovia Modern

Urban Form and Political Imagination in Liberia

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Produktbeschreibung

Danny Hoffman is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Washington and the author of The War Machines: Young Men and Violence in Sierra Leone and Liberia, also published by Duke University Press. As a photojournalist, he documented conflicts in southern Africa and the Balkans from 1994 to 1998.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. November 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 255mm x 179mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 674g
• ISBN-13: 9780822358848
• ISBN-10: 0822358840
• Artikelnr.: 46766432

Autorenporträt

Danny Hoffman is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Washington and the author of The War Machines: Young Men and Violence in Sierra Leone and Liberia, also published by Duke University Press. As a photojournalist, he documented conflicts in southern Africa and the Balkans from 1994 to 1998.

Inhaltsangabe

Illustrations  xiii
Preface  xvii
Acknowledgments  xxiii
Introduction  1
1. Live Dangerously, My Brothers: Ex-Combatants and the Political Economy
of Space  33
2. The Ministry of Defense: Excessive Architecture  61
3. E. J. Roye: The Corporate (Post)Modern  91
4. Hotel Africa: The Uncritical Ruin  115
5. Liberia Broadcasting System: Three Utopias  143
6. Finding Urban Form: A Coda  175
Notes  183
References  189
Index  203