The Politics of Housing in (Post-)Colonial Africa : : Accommodating workers and urban residents / / Kirsten Rüther, Martina Barker-Ciganikova, Daniela Waldburger, Carl-Philipp Bodenstein.
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,...
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| Place / Publishing House: | München ;, Wien : : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, , [2020] ©2020 |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (VIII, 228 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The Rule of Rent: The State, Employers and the Becoming Urban Dweller in Northern Rhodesia Acting Across a Societal Field of Force, c. 1948–1962
- 3. Ruashi, a Pessac in Congo? On the Design, Inhabitation, and Transformation of a 1950s Neighborhood in Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of the Congo
- 4. At Home with Nairobi’s Working Poor: Reading Meja Mwangi’s Urban Novels
- 5. La problématique de l’habitat dans la ville de Lubumbashi (Elisabethville), province du Katanga, 1910–1960
- 6. House, Home, Health and Hygiene – Social Engineering of Workers in Elisabethville/ Lubumbashi (1940s to 1960s) Through the Lens of Language Usage
- 7. Spatio-physical Power and Social Control Strategies of the Colonial State in Africa: The Case of CDC Workers’ Camps in Cameroon
- 8. Concrete Does not Cry: Interdisciplinary Reflections on and Beyond Housing
- Contributors
- Index