Africa and Urban Anthropology (eBook, PDF)

Theoretical and Methodological Contributions from Contemporary Fieldwork
Redaktion: Pellow, Deborah; Scheld, Suzanne

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 540
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. März 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000684223
• Artikelnr.: 67512442

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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 Hodzic



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