Crisis Urbanism and Postcolonial African Cities in Postmillennial Cinema

ISBN-13: 9780367640835 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 142 str.

Addamms Mututa

Opis

This book provides a framework to rethink postcoloniality and urbanism from African perspectives. Bringing together multidisciplinary perspectives on African crises through postmillennial films the book addresses the need to situate global south cultural studies within the region.

Spis treści

1. Crisis Urbanism in Context  2. Crisis of Nonentity - ‘Unknowing’ Johannesburg’s Postapartheid Townships  3. Laissez Faire Urbanism: Economies of Dystopia in Postcolonial Kinshasa  4. Urbanism of the Commons: Inhabiting Trash and a Crisis of Communing in Nairobi  5. Rarray Urbanism: The Superficies of Monrovia’s Hustlers in Postwar Urban Crisis  6. Revolt Urbanism: Cairo’s Crisis Citizenship Under Construction  7. Outlier Urbanism: Inside Luanda’s Postwar Cantonments  8. Crisis Urbanism and the Future of African Cities

O autorze

Addamms Mututa is a postdoctoral research fellow at the African Centre for Cities, University of Cape Town. He practices interdisciplinary research on cinema and global south cities and holds a joint PhD from the University of Tübingen, Germany, and the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.