L Africa Delle Citt Urban Africa
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L Africa Delle Citt Urban Africa
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Author : AA.VV.
language : it
Publisher: Lexis
Release Date : 2017-12-31
L Africa Delle Citt Urban Africa written by AA.VV. and has been published by Lexis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-12-31 with Social Science categories.
Possenti processi di urbanizzazione stanno modificando a un ritmo incalzante gli scenari sociali, culturali ed economici dell’Africa. Si tratta di un fenomeno di enorme rilevanza non solo per il continente africano e per gli studi africanistici, ma più in generale per le dinamiche globali cui stiamo assistendo negli ultimi decenni. Il fenomeno chiama in causa una molteplicità di approcci, imponendo la collaborazione e il confronto di diverse discipline: storia, antropologia, geografia, economia, politologia, urbanistica, diritto, per citarne solo alcuni. Per favorire un ampio confronto interdisciplinare, il Centro Piemontese di Studi Africani (CSA) ha organizzato – in collaborazione con l’Associazione Studi Africani in Italia (ASAI), l’Università e il Politecnico di Torino – il convegno “L’Africa delle città. Economie, popolazioni, culture” (Torino, Palazzo del Rettorato, 16-17 ottobre 2015), che ha visto la partecipazione di più di cinquanta studiosi appartenenti a diverse discipline, distribuiti in una decina di panel tematici. Questo volume presenta contributi rielaborati a partire da tali iniziative, messi a disposizione del pubblico per alimentare il dibattito relativo alle dinamiche di cambiamento in atto nel continente africano. Una riflessione che risulta cruciale anche per la comprensione delle migrazioni in gran parte provenienti dall’Africa, che da alcuni decenni investono il nostro paese.
The African City
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Author : Bill Freund
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2007-03-05
The African City written by Bill Freund and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-03-05 with History categories.
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Africa S Urban Past
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Author : David Anderson
language : en
Publisher: James Currey Publishers
Release Date : 2000
Africa S Urban Past written by David Anderson and has been published by James Currey Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Literary Collections categories.
A selection of papers first delivered at the conference on Africa's Urban Past, held at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 1996.
Bill Freund
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Author : Bill Freund
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 2021-05-01
Bill Freund written by Bill Freund and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-05-01 with Political Science categories.
The first biography of an eminent historian of South Africa Bill Freund, the late social historian and leading analyst of African history, passed away in 2020 soon after finishing his autobiography. Often described as the academy’s ‘outsider insider’, he was an eminent South African historian who published prodigiously in the areas of labour, capital and economic history. What influenced this American-educated academic to become such an astute and trusted observer of the political economy in Africa? We follow Bill’s intellectual journey from a modest Jewish home in Chicago in the 1950s to the Universities of Chicago, Yale, Ahmadu Bello University in Nigeria and Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania, and finally to a permanent teaching position at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in Durban, South Africa. Peppered in between the commentaries on academic life are stories of his travels, poems he wrote for loved ones, and endearing anecdotes of friendships that shaped his life. As an ‘outsider’, both in the United States and abroad, he is able to offer rich insights into the world of Africanists and their scholarship on different continents. His thoughtful and balanced observations on late- and post-apartheid South Africa are especially interesting and refreshing. This posthumously published autobiography will give deeper insight into this unusual man and the world that shaped him – and which he in turn influenced through a deep commitment to rigorous scholarship. It includes a select bibliography of Bill Freund’s many publications as well as a foreword by Robert Morrell on the making of this autobiography.
Dar Es Salaam Histories From An Emerging African Metropolis
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Author : James R. Brennan
language : en
Publisher: African Books Collective
Release Date : 2007
Dar Es Salaam Histories From An Emerging African Metropolis written by James R. Brennan and has been published by African Books Collective this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with History categories.
"From its modest beginnings in the 1860s, Dar es Salaam has grown to become one of Africa's most important urban centres. A major political, economic and cultural hub, the city has also acted as a crucible of local social and cultural innovation, exerting a powerful influence on wider Tanzanian society. Reflecting important contemporary socio-economic trends of urban Africa, it has recently attracted the attention of a diverse range of scholars from several disciplines. This collection draws on the best of this scholarship." --Book Jacket.
African Cities Through Local Eyes
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Author : Giuseppe Faldi
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2021-10-16
African Cities Through Local Eyes written by Giuseppe Faldi and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-10-16 with Political Science categories.
This book provides readers with a wide overview of place-based planning and design experiments addressing such powerful transformations in the African built environment. This continent is currently undergoing fast paced urban, institutional and environmental changes, which have stimulated an increasing interest for alternative architectural solutions, urban designs and comprehensive planning experiments. The international and balanced array of the collected contributions explore emerging research concepts for understanding urban and peri-urban processes in Africa, discuss bottom-up planning and design practices, and present inspirational and innovative co-design methods and participatory tools for steering such change through public spaces, sustainable services and infrastructures. The book is intended for students, researchers, decision-makers and practitioners engaged in planning and design for the built environment in Africa and the Global South at large.
Suturing The City
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Author : Autograph
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016
Suturing The City written by Autograph and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with Ethnology categories.
Suturing the City focuses upon the 'urban now', a moment suspended between lingering precolonial references, the broken dreams of a colonial past, and the not yet realised promises of neoliberal futures.This book provides an ethnographic and photographic investigation of the complex meanings of living - and living together - in Congo's urban worlds today.The award-winning authors, anthropologist Filip De Boeck, and photographer Sammy Baloji, take the reader on a tour of specific urban sites in Kinshasa and beyond.In their detailed analysis these sites emerge as suturing points in which the possibilities of collective urban action and dreams of a shared future continue to be explored in Africa.Filip De Boeck is Professor of Anthropology, University of Leuven, Belgium, and co-author of Kinshasa: Tales of the Invisible City.Sammy Baloji is a photographer (born in DR Congo) who's work has been exhibited internationally including at: TATE Modern, London (2011); Smithsonian Museum, Washington DC (2012); and Venice Biennale (2015)
African City Textualities
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Author : Ranka Primorac
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-09-13
African City Textualities written by Ranka Primorac and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09-13 with Social Science categories.
The stereotype of Africa as a predominantly 'natural' space ignores the existence of vibrant and cosmopolitan urban environments on the continent. Far from merely embodying backwardness and lack, African cities are sites of complex and diverse cultural productions which participate in modernity and its dynamics of global flows and exchanges. This volume merges the concerns of urban, literary and cultural studies by focusing on the flows and exchanges of texts and textual elements. By analysing how texts such as popular and canonical fiction, popular music, self-help pamphlets, graffiti, films, journalistic writing, rumours and urban legends engage with the problems of citizenship, self-organisation and survival, the collection shows that despite all the problems of Africa, its cities continue to engender forward-looking creativity and hope. The texts collected here belong to several different genres themselves, and they are authored by both distinguished and younger scholars, based in and outside of Africa. The volume explores the textualities emerging from the cities of Senegal, Nigeria, Ghana, Uganda, Kenya, Zambia, Zimbabwe and South Africa. Above all, it calls for an end to disabling hierarchical categorisations of both texts and cities. This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of Postcolonial Writing.
Durban A Cogent African City
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Author : Anna Irene Del Monaco
language : en
Publisher: Edizioni Nuova Cultura
Release Date : 2018-04-30
Durban A Cogent African City written by Anna Irene Del Monaco and has been published by Edizioni Nuova Cultura this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-04-30 with Architecture categories.
The city of Durban is one of the most intriguing for architects and urban designers, due to its cultural and economic diversity on one the hand and its political evolution since its colonial formalisation, apartheid influences and its post-apartheid evolution, on the other. It is a city that expresses complex narratives in architectural form and expression, seemingly chaotic, yet within and upon a cogent overall structure. Perhaps, it is that very cogency in urban structure which facilitated its complex evolution, or perhaps not. This paradox forms the crux of the studies and applied research part of this book, and which defined the sites of focus for a collaborative studio workshop. Durban is a modern city which expresses the complex dynamics of an African city emerging from a historically colonial foundation. This provided an interesting context for engagement of the UNESCO Chair for Sustainable Urban Quality and Culture, notably in Africa. The institutional agreement between the UNESCO Chair, Sapienza University of Rome and the Durban University of Technology (DUT) was formalised in the year 2013, prior to an international workshop in China and the UIA 2014 in Durban, South Africa. The focus of the Chair and the curriculum outcomes of DUT, with regard to urban culture and the evolution thereof, created a mutually opportune association, with the possibility for contribution to the UIA 2014 conference in Durban. After deliberations and the necessary paperwork, the UNESCO Chair, in Association with DUT, were granted official space on the UIA Programme for presentation at the conference. This was received with much enthusiasm, which drew further interest and participation from students and Professors of Sapienza University of Rome and Tsinghua University of Beijing in China. Further representation of academics from Manipal University in India, School of Architecture University of Florida and Hosei University in Japan added much value to the collaboration in Durban.
Courtyards Markets City Streets
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Author : Kathleen Sheldon
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2018-03-08
Courtyards Markets City Streets written by Kathleen Sheldon and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-03-08 with Political Science categories.
Although women have long been active residents in African cities, explorations of their contributions have been marginal. This volume brings women into the center of the urban landscape, using case studies to illustrate their contributions to family, community, work, and political life. The book begins with a rich introduction that discusses how women's work in trade and agriculture has been the foundation of African urbanization. The contributors then focus on patterns of migration and urbanization, with an emphasis on the personal and social issues that influence the decision to migrate from rural areas; women's employment in varied activities from selling crafts to managing small businesses; the sometimes unavoidable practice of prostitution when options are limited; the emergence of complex new family formations deriving from access to courts and the continued strength of polygyny; and women's participation in community and political activities. The volume includes material from all regions of sub-Saharan Africa and brings together scholars from all the social sciences.
