Postcolonial African Cities : Imperial Legacies and Postcolonial Predicament

ISBN-13: 9780415495653 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 150 str.

Demissie Fassil

Opis

Offering a range of scholarly interpretations of the new forms of urbanity in contemporary African cities, engaging with issues including colonial legacies, postcolonial intersections, cosmopolitan spaces, urban reconfigurations, and migration, this work covers cities as diverse as Dar Es Salaam, Dakar, Lagos and Kinshasa.

Spis treści

1. Imperial Legacies and Post-Colonial Predicament: An Introduction. 2. Metropolitanism, Capital and Patrimony: Theorizing the Postcolonial West African City. 3. Casting a Long Shadow: Colonial Categories, Cultural Identities, and Cosmopolitan Spaces in Globalizing Africa. 4. Viewing Post-Colonial Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania Through Civic Spaces: A Question of Class. 5. Transforming urban landscapes: Soccer fields as sites of urban sociability in the agglomeration of Dakar. 6. Narrating The African City From The Diaspora: Lagos As A Trope In Ben Okri and Chika Unigwe’s Short Stories. 7. The City Beyond the Border: The Urban Worlds Of Duiker, Mpe & Vera. 8. Governing the city? South Africa's struggle to deal with urban immigrants after apartheid. 9. Cinema and The Edgy City: Johannesburg, Carjacking, And The Postmetropolis. 10. Visual Fragments of Kinshasa

O autorze

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.