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

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Main Authors: Obrist, Brigit (Author, Editor), Arlt, Veit (Author, Editor), Macamo, Elísio Salvado (Author, Editor)
Corporate Author: African-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies
Language:English
Published: Zürich : Lit, [2013]
Series:Schweizerische Afrikastudien ; Bd. 10.
Subjects:
Urbanization > Africa > Congresses.
Urbanization > Social aspects > Africa > Congresses.
City and town life > Africa > Congresses.
Sociology, Urban > Africa > Congresses.
Genre:
Congresses.
Physical Description:304 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
Format: Book
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.