Postcolonial African Cities: Imperial Legacies and Postcolonial Predicament - Hardcover

 
9780415454483: Postcolonial African Cities: Imperial Legacies and Postcolonial Predicament
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0415454484 ISBN 13: 9780415454483
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2008

Inhaltsangabe

The book focuses on contemporary African cities, caught in the contradiction of an imperial past and postcolonial present. The essays explore the cultural role of colonial architecture and urbanism in the production of meanings: in the inscription of power and discipline, as well as in the dynamic construction of identities. It is in these new dense urban spaces, with all their contradictions, that urban Africans are reworking their local identities, building families, and creating autonomous communities – made fragile by neo-liberal states in a globalizing world.

The book offers a range of scholarly interpretations of the new forms of urbanity. It engages with issues, themes and topics including colonial legacies, postcolonial intersections, cosmopolitan spaces, urban reconfigurations, and migration which are at the heart of the continuing debate about the trajectory of contemporary African cities. The collection discusses contemporary African cities as diverse as Dar Es Salaam, Dakar, Johannesburg, Lagos and Kinshasa – offering new insights into the current state of postcolonial African cities.

This was previously published as a special issue of African Identities.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Fassil Demissie is Associate Professor, DePaul University, USA. He is the editor of African and Black Diaspora: An International Journal, and on the editorial board of African Identities: A Journal of Economics, Culture and Society (both published by Routledge). He recently edited Postcolonial African Cities.

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Verlag
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Erscheinungsdatum
2008
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0415454484
ISBN 13 
9780415454483
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
150
Herausgeber
Demissie Fassil
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