Living the city in Africa : processes of invention and intervention / Brigit Obrist, Veit Arlt and Elísio Macamo (eds.).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Obrist, Brigit, editor of compilation, author.

Arlt, Veit, editor of compilation, author.

Macamo, Elísio Salvado, editor of compilation, author.

African-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies.

Series:

Schweizerische Afrikastudien ; Bd. 10.

Schweizerische Afrikastudien ; Bd. 10 = Études africaines suisses ; tome 10

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Urbanization--Africa--Congresses.

Urbanization.

Urbanization--Social aspects--Africa--Congresses.

City and town life--Africa--Congresses.

City and town life.

Sociology, Urban--Africa--Congresses.

Sociology, Urban.

Urbanization--Social aspects.

Africa.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

304 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Zürich : Lit, [2013]

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.

Notes:

Proceedings of a conference convened for the Africa-Europe Group of Interdisciplinary Studies AEGIS, Basel, October 2010.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

3643801521

9783643801524

OCLC:

852732929

Publisher Number:

99957795664