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Urban Africa by Simone, AbdouMaliq; Abouhani, Abdelghani
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- ISBN
- 9781842775936
- Book Title
- Urban Africa : Changing Contours of Survival in the City
- Book Series
- Africa in the New Millennium Ser.
- Item Length
- 8.5 in
- Publisher
- ZED Books, The Limited
- Publication Year
- 2005
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Perfect
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 0.7 in
- Genre
- Social Science, Political Science
- Topic
- Sociology / General, Public Policy / City Planning & Urban Development, Sociology / Urban
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- 5.5 in
- Item Weight
- 14.3 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 320 Pages
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This volume illuminates the complex and constantly shifting social dynamics of African city making and human survival today. It explores how African urban dwellers have had to find not only effective ways of pursuing their livelihoods and other aspirations within cities but also ways of managing their interactions with often more powerful economic and political interests that seek to impose particular uses of urban space. Amidst very different socio-cultural contexts in Dakar, Addis Ababa, Cape Town, Kisangani, Jos, Zaria, Cairo and Marrakesh, the research in this volume focuses on the diverse ways Africans negotiate novel spatial practices, political-economic processes, and social relations that entangle place, identity and power in urban sites. While historically familiar patterns linking countryside and city remain, these are constantly being reworked as African agency gives life to highly diverse urban formations which are further fashioned through the geographically uneven dynamics of globalization that articulate with locally specific histories, cultural practices, and political contingencies. The result is an emphasis in Africa on city making through fluid and rapidly changing institutional structures, informal agreements, and finding innovative ways to interweave various sectors and actors. Urban change, as a consequence, is not a process easily managed.
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Publisher
ZED Books, The Limited
ISBN-10
1842775936
ISBN-13
9781842775936
eBay Product ID (ePID)
43743580
Product Key Features
Book Title
Urban Africa : Changing Contours of Survival in the City
Format
Perfect
Language
English
Topic
Sociology / General, Public Policy / City Planning & Urban Development, Sociology / Urban
Book Series
Africa in the New Millennium Ser.
Publication Year
2005
Type
Textbook
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Social Science, Political Science
Number of Pages
320 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.5 in
Item Height
0.7 in
Item Width
5.5 in
Item Weight
14.3 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Ht148.A2u7 2005
Reviews
"Argues that approaching African cities through normative ideas of urbanization only obscures how Africans have created their own paths and strategies to make cities work ... recommended." -- African Studies Review "Is urban life in Africa exceptional or is it another expression and reworking of universal urban modernity remolded and appropriated by Africans making their own lives in relation to and in spite of the myriad of structural and other constraints they face? This powerfully insightful book edited by Abdoumaliq Simone successfully brings out the rich and diverse complexity, ambivalence, resilience and variety of African urban lives and experiences. The book shows that there can be no simple, naive and monolithic explanations and interpretations. This is an important book that re-affirms the agency of ordinary African urban dwellers, while recognizing the often very difficult conditions of their existence but at the same time expressing the optimism and resilience that define African urban life." -- Tade Akin Aina, The Ford Foundation, Nairobi, 'Is urban life in Africa exceptional or is it another expression and reworking of universal urban modernity remolded and appropriated by Africans making their own lives in relation to and in spite of the myriad of structural and other constraints they face? This powerfully insightful book edited by Abdoumaliq Simone successfully brings out the rich and diverse complexity, ambivalence, resilience and variety of African urban lives and experiences. The book shows that there can be no simple, naive and monolithic explanations and interpretations. This is an important book that re-affirms the agency of ordinary African urban dwellers, while recognizing the often very difficult conditions of their existence but at the same time expressing the optimism and resilience that define African urban life.' Tade Akin Aina, The Ford Foundation, Nairobi'Argues that approaching African cities through normative ideas of urbanization only obscures how Africans have created their own paths and strategies to make cities work...recommended.' - African Studies Review, 'Is urban life in Africa exceptional or is it another expression and reworking of universal urban modernity remolded and appropriated by Africans making their own lives in relation to and in spite of the myriad of structural and other constraints they face? This powerfully insightful book edited by Abdoumaliq Simone successfully brings out the rich and diverse complexity, ambivalence, resilience and variety of African urban lives and experiences. The book shows that there can be no simple, naive and monolithic explanations and interpretations. This is an important book that re-affirms the agency of ordinary African urban dwellers, while recognizing the often very difficult conditions of their existence but at the same time expressing the optimism and resilience that define African urban life.' Tade Akin Aina, The Ford Foundation, Nairobi 'Argues that approaching African cities through normative ideas of urbanization only obscures how Africans have created their own paths and strategies to make cities work ... recommended.' African Studies Review, 'Is urban life in Africa exceptional or is it another expression and reworking of universal urban modernity remolded and appropriated by Africans making their own lives in relation to and in spite of the myriad of structural and other constraints they face? This powerfully insightful book edited by Abdoumaliq Simone successfully brings out the rich and diverse complexity, ambivalence, resilience and variety of African urban lives and experiences. The book shows that there can be no simple, naive and monolithic explanations and interpretations. This is an important book that re-affirms the agency of ordinary African urban dwellers, while recognizing the often very difficult conditions of their existence but at the same time expressing the optimism and resilience that define African urban life.'Tade Akin Aina, The Ford Foundation, Nairobi'Argues that approaching African cities through normative ideas of urbanization only obscures how Africans have created their own paths and strategies to make cities work ... recommended.'African Studies Review, 'Is urban life in Africa exceptional or is it another expression and reworking of universal urban modernity remolded and appropriated by Africans making their own lives in relation to and in spite of the myriad of structural and other constraints they face? This powerfully insightful book edited by Abdoumaliq Simone successfully brings out the rich and diverse complexity, ambivalence, resilience and variety of African urban lives and experiences. The book shows that there can be no simple, na&lsa"ve and monolithic explanations and interpretations. This is an important book that re-affirms the agency of ordinary African urban dwellers, while recognizing the often very difficult conditions of their existence but at the same time expressing the optimism and resilience that define African urban life.' Tade Akin Aina, The Ford Foundation, Nairobi'Argues that approaching African cities through normative ideas of urbanization only obscures how Africans have created their own paths and strategies to make cities work...recommended.' - African Studies Review
Table of Content
1. Introduction: Urban Processes and Change - AbdouMaliq Simone Part I: Making Urban Politics 2. Urban Policies in Cairo: From Speeches on New Cities to the Adjustment Practices of Ordinary City Dwellers - Bénédicte Florin 3. Feasts: Panoramas in Town: The Spaces and Times of the Moulids of Cairo - Anna Madoeuf 4. Kisangani: A city at its Lowest Ebb - Jean Omasombo 5. The City Centre: A Shifting Concept in the History of Addis Ababa - Bahru Zewde 6. At the Limits of Possibility: Working Notes on a Relational Model of Urban Politics - Edgar Pieterse Part 2: Urban Practices 7. Life in a High Density Urban Area: Anguwar Mai Gwado in Zaria - Mohammed-Bello Yunusa 8. Ethnicity and the Dynamics of City Politics: The Case of Jos - Victor A. O. Adetula 9. Urban Development and Urban Informalities: Pikine, Senegal - Mohamadou Abdoul 10. Formal and Decentralized Financing of Housing: Operation 200,000 Houses, Marrakesh - Mohamed Gheris
Copyright Date
2005
Target Audience
College Audience
Lccn
2004-042337
Dewey Decimal
307.76/096
Dewey Edition
22
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