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Afropolis

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Author : Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum
language : en
Publisher: Jacana Media
Release Date : 2012

Afropolis written by Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum and has been published by Jacana Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Architecture categories.

Metropolises often evoke images of flashy high-rise buildings, permanent background noise, backed-up cars and people moving quickly in all directions in their masses. New York, Tokyo, London, Sao Paulo. But what about Cairo?

Agadir

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Author : Zaugg AVERMAETE
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2022-02-14

Agadir written by Zaugg AVERMAETE and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-02-14 with categories.

The fascinating first-ever full account of the remarkable reconstruction of the Moroccan coastal city of Agadir following the 1960 earthquake. On February 29, 1960, a catastrophic earthquake devastated the Moroccan coastal city of Agadir, erasing it almost entirely and killing a third of its population. The world was shocked, and very quickly large amounts of international aid arrived. Following an emotional speech by King Mohammed V, the reconstruction of Agadir also turned into an undertaking of national and international solidarity. A new and unprecedented process of urban construction was developed that allowed many architects--national and international--to simultaneously design the new city. The result of this joint effort was astounding. In a very short time, the new Agadir rose from the ashes. The best Moroccan and international architects experimented with novel housing typologies, which mediated between ultramodern and vernacular ways of dwelling, complemented by innovative public structures, such as schools, dispensaries, and cinemas. All of these combined into an original urban reality: a modern Afropolis. This book for the first time thoroughly explores the forgotten tale of Agadir's reconstruction. It features previously unpublished archival documents and striking period photographs, as well as new plans and contemporary images by London-based photographer and academic David Grandorge, alongside scholarly essays by architects and architecture historians Tom Avermaete, Laure Augereau, Irina Davidovici, Janina Gosseye, Cathelijne Nuijsink, Hans Teerds, and Maxime Zaugg. A three-part interview with Lachsen Roussafi, who witnessed the 1960 earthquake as a student, rounds out this tantalizing narration of the international architectural adventure of rebuilding Agadir as the modern Afropolis.

Fashioning The Afropolis

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Author : Kerstin Pinther
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2022-07-14

Fashioning The Afropolis written by Kerstin Pinther and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-07-14 with Design categories.

With a focus on sub-Saharan Africa, Fashioning the Afropolis provides a range of innovative perspectives on global fashion, design, dress, photography, and the body in some of the major cities, with a focus on Lagos, Johannesburg, Dakar, and Douala. It contributes to the ongoing debates around the globalization of fashion and fashion theory by exploring fashion as a genuine urban phenomenon on the continent and among its diasporas. To date, “fashion” and “city” have not been systematically related to each other in the African context and, for too long, a western-centric gaze has dominated scholarship, resulting in the perception of Africa as provincial and its visual arts and textile cultures as static and folkloristic. This perspective is all the more distorted, given Africa's rich sartorial past. With a huge number of tailors ready to adapt and renew clothing, reshaping garments into contemporary styles, and many cities in Africa becoming hot-spots for a steadily growing and well-connected scene of fashion designers in the past 20 years, the time is ripe for a reevaluation and reconsideration of the fashionscapes of Africa. Leading scholars offer an updated empirical and theoretical foundation on which to base new and exciting research on sub-Saharan fashion, challenging perceptions and offering new insights.

Afropolis City Media Art Nairobi Goethe Institut 22 May 4 June 2010 Cologne Rautenstrauch Joest Museum Cultures Of The World 5 November 2010 13 March 2011 Bayreuth Iwalewa House 21 April 4 September 2011

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Author : Kerstin Pinther
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012

Afropolis City Media Art Nairobi Goethe Institut 22 May 4 June 2010 Cologne Rautenstrauch Joest Museum Cultures Of The World 5 November 2010 13 March 2011 Bayreuth Iwalewa House 21 April 4 September 2011 written by Kerstin Pinther and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with categories.

Afropolis

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Author : Cécilia Emma Wilson
language : fr
Publisher:
Release Date : 2022

Afropolis written by Cécilia Emma Wilson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022 with categories.

Hope

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010

Hope written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with categories.

The Afropolis And The African Urban Revolution

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Author : Chike F. Okolocha
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014

The Afropolis And The African Urban Revolution written by Chike F. Okolocha and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with categories.

Ethics And Aesthetics In Contemporary African Cinema

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Author : James S. Williams
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2019-03-21

Ethics And Aesthetics In Contemporary African Cinema written by James S. Williams and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-03-21 with Performing Arts categories.

Since the beginnings of African cinema, the realm of beauty on screen has been treated with suspicion by directors and critics alike. James S. Williams explores an exciting new generation of African directors, including Abderrahmane Sissako, Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, Fanta Régina Nacro, Alain Gomis, Newton I. Aduaka, Jean-Pierre Bekolo and Mati Diop, who have begun to reassess and embrace the concept of cinematic beauty by not reducing it to ideological critique or the old ideals of pan-Africanism. Locating the aesthetic within a range of critical fields - the rupturing of narrative spectacle and violence by montage, the archives of the everyday in the 'afropolis', the plurivocal mysteries of sound and language, male intimacy and desire, the borderzones of migration and transcultural drift - this study reveals the possibility for new, non-conceptual kinds of beauty in African cinema: abstract, material, migrant, erotic, convulsive, queer. Through close readings of key works such as Life on Earth (1998), The Night of Truth (2004), Bamako (2006), Daratt (Dry Season) (2006), A Screaming Man (2010), Tey (Today) (2012), The Pirogue (2012), Mille soleils (2013) and Timbuktu (2014), Williams argues that contemporary African filmmakers are proposing propitious, ethical forms of relationality and intersubjectivity. These stimulate new modes of cultural resistance and transformation that serve to redefine the transnational and the cosmopolitan as well as the very notion of the political in postcolonial art cinema.

Fashionscapes

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Author : Kerstin Pinther
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021

Fashionscapes written by Kerstin Pinther and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021 with Clothing trade categories.

With a focus on sub-Saharan Africa, Fashionscapes provides a range of innovative perspectives on global fashion, design, dress, photography, and the body in some of the major cities, with a focus on Lagos, Johannesburg, Dakar, and Douala. It contributes to the ongoing debates around the globalization of fashion and fashion theory by exploring fashion as a genuine urban phenomenon on the continent and among its diasporas. To date, ?fashion? and ?city? have not been systematically related to each other in the African context and, for too long, a western-centric gaze has dominated scholarship, resulting in the perception of Africa as provincial and its visual arts and textile cultures as static and folkloristic. This perspective is all the more distorted, given Africa's rich sartorial past. With a huge number of tailors ready to adapt and renew clothing, reshaping garments into contemporary styles, and many cities in Africa becoming hot-spots for a steadily growing and well-connected scene of fashion designers in the past 20 years, the time is ripe for a reevaluation and reconsideration of the fashionscapes of Africa. Leading scholars offer an updated empirical and theoretical foundation on which to base new and exciting research on sub-Saharan fashion, challenging perceptions and offering new insights.

Johannesburg

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Author : Sarah Nuttall
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2008-10-24

Johannesburg written by Sarah Nuttall and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-10-24 with Social Science categories.

Johannesburg: The Elusive Metropolis is a pioneering effort to insert South Africa’s largest city into urban theory, on its own terms. Johannesburg is Africa’s premier metropolis. Yet theories of urbanization have cast it as an emblem of irresolvable crisis, the spatial embodiment of unequal economic relations and segregationist policies, and a city that responds to but does not contribute to modernity on the global scale. Complicating and contesting such characterizations, the contributors to this collection reassess classic theories of metropolitan modernity as they explore the experience of “city-ness” and urban life in post-apartheid South Africa. They portray Johannesburg as a polycentric and international city with a hybrid history that continually permeates the present. Turning its back on rigid rationalities of planning and racial separation, Johannesburg has become a place of intermingling and improvisation, a city that is fast developing its own brand of cosmopolitan culture. The volume’s essays include an investigation of representation and self-stylization in the city, an ethnographic examination of friction zones and practices of social reproduction in inner-city Johannesburg, and a discussion of the economic and literary relationship between Johannesburg and Maputo, Mozambique’s capital. One contributor considers how Johannesburg’s cosmopolitan sociability enabled the anticolonial projects of Mohandas Ghandi and Nelson Mandela. Journalists, artists, architects, writers, and scholars bring contemporary Johannesburg to life in ten short pieces, including reflections on music and megamalls, nightlife, built spaces, and life for foreigners in the city. Contributors: Arjun Appadurai, Carol A. Breckenridge, Lindsay Bremner, David Bunn, Fred de Vries, Nsizwa Dlamini, Mark Gevisser, Stefan Helgesson, Julia Hornberger, Jonathan Hyslop, Grace Khunou, Frédéric Le Marcis, Xavier Livermon, John Matshikiza, Achille Mbembe, Robert Muponde, Sarah Nuttall, Tom Odhiambo, Achal Prabhala, AbdouMaliq Simone