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Writing Windhoek Multiple Representations of the City.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tjirera, Ellison
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Windhoek (Namibia).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (244 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Basler Afrika Bibliographien, 2025.
- Contents:
- Front cover
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Basel Namibia Studies Series
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- An Overture
- Introducing an "Unusual City"
- Making a Case for Writing Windhoek
- Writings on Cities in Africa
- Radical Urbanism
- Semiotics of an African City
- Governing an African City
- "Ordinary Urbanism"-the Emergent African City?
- A Note on Methodology
- Dilemmas and Ethics of/in Research
- Outline
- 1 (Re)tracing Spatial Segregation
- Looking Back: Pre-Colonial Windhoek
- Rumours of Colonialism: Missionaries Come to Windhoek
- Genesis of Modern Windhoek-The Arrival of German Schutztruppe
- Changing of Colonial Hands
- The Making of an Apartheid City-Windhoek under Pretoria
- Heightened Residential Apartheid
- The Indelibility of Apartheid in Conversational Windhoek
- Windhoek in Analytical Exchange with South African Cities
- Conclusion
- 2 Cultural Economies of the City
- Monuments as Material and Visual Paraphernalia of a Colonial City
- The "Founder of Windhoek" Statue: A Monumental Myth that Fell
- The Christuskirche
- Rendering the City through Poetry
- City Imageries of the Built Environment
- Representations of Everyday Life
- Listening to Windhoek through Songs
- 3 City Governance: Urban Fantasies, (In)visibility and Bureaucratic Practices
- Governing Windhoek-Dominant Viewpoints and Practices of Bureaucrats
- CBD Urban Design Framework-(Re)Configuring the City
- Surveillance, Control and Policing Space
- Obsession with Order and Cleanliness
- Taming "Informality"-"Aiming at a Moving Target"
- Living-in-being Displaced
- 4 Regimes of Legal and Spatial Reproduction
- Legal Status of the City-Does it Matter?
- African Cities and the Law
- The Making of Windhoek-A Legal Revisit of the Founding Years
- Colonial Planning and Urban Materiality
- Interracial Property Transfers in Hochland Park, Klein Windhoek and Pioneers Park
- (Re)segregation and Enclaving in Windhoek
- 5 Migration and the Making of the Urban
- Windhoek's Migratory Patterns Since the 1970s
- Beyond Numbers: Who are the migrants?
- Migrant Windhoek and Informal Markets
- Life Histories and Trading Facts of Street Vendors
- Bwana-"The Hidden Trader"
- Joyce-"The CBD Toughie"
- Esther-"The Fragrances Lady"
- Meme Leah-"The Cook under the Bridge"
- Tinashe-"The Tailor"
- City Life and Urban Imageries
- Informality as Spatial Marginality
- Social Capital and Informal Ties
- Differing Spatial Positions of Migrants
- Epilogue
- Weaving Together Multiple Representations
- Appendices / Annexures
- List of Illustrations
- Bibliography
- Index
- Back cover
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Electronic reproduction. Oxford Available via World Wide Web.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Tjirera, Ellison Writing Windhoek
- Print version:
- ISBN:
- 9783906927633
- 3906927636
- Publisher Number:
- 90103500851
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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