The Politics of Housing in (Post-)Colonial Africa
Accommodating workers and urban residents
Housing matters, no matter when or where. This volume of collected essays on housing in colonial and postcolonial Africa seeks to elaborate the how and the why. Housing is much more than a living everyday practice. It unfolds in its disparate dimensions of time, space and agency. Context dependent, it acquires diverse, often ambivalent, meanings. Housing can be a promise, an unfulfilled dream, a tool of self- and class-assertion, a negotiation process, or a means to achieve other ends. Our focus lies in analyzing housing in its multifacetedness, be it a lens to offer insights into complex processes that shape societies; be it a tool of empir…
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Weitere Autoren: Barker-Ciganikova, Martina (Hrsg.) / Waldburger, Daniela (Hrsg.) / Bodenstein, Carl-Philipp (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-3-11-059827-8
- EAN: 9783110598278
- Produktnummer: 29498299
- Verlag: De Gruyter Oldenbourg
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
- Seitenangabe: 228 S.
- Masse: H23.9 cm x B16.4 cm x D2.0 cm 466 g
- Abbildungen: 22 b/w ill.
- Gewicht: 466
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Kirsten Rüther, Martina Barker-Ciganikova, Daniela Waldburger, Carl Bodenstein, University of Vienna
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