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Record Nr.

UNINA9910816668203321

Titolo

The Arts of Citizenship in African Cities : Infrastructures and Spaces of Belonging / / edited by M. Diouf, R. Fredericks

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2014

ISBN

1-137-51631-3

1-137-48188-9

Edizione

[1st ed. 2014.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (325 p.)

Collana

Africa Connects

Classificazione

SOC002000SOC026030SOC042000

Disciplina

307.760968

Soggetti

Ethnology—Africa

Sociology, Urban

Economic development

Anthropology

African Culture

Urban Studies/Sociology

Development Studies

Africa Social life and customs

Africa Social conditions

Africa Politics and government

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Volume Abstracts; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Too Many Things to Do: Social Dimensions of City-Making in Africa; 2 The Funeral in the Village: Urbanites' Shifting Imaginations of Belonging, Mobility, and Community; 3 Citizenship and Civility in Peri-Urban Mozambique; 4 "Dealing with the Prince over Lagos": Pentecostal Arts of Citizenship; 5 The Road to Redemption: Performing Pentecostal Citizenship in Lagos*; 6 "The Old Man Is Dead": Hip Hop and the Arts of Citizenship of Senegalese Youth*

7 Beautifying Brazzaville: Arts of Citizenship in the Congo8 Representing an African City and Urban Elite: The Nightclubs, Dance Halls, and Red-Light District of Interwar Accra; 9 Seeing Dirt in Dar es



Salaam: Sanitation, Waste, and Citizenship in the Postcolonial City; 10 "Ambivalent Cosmopolitans"?* Senegalese and Malian Migrants in Johannesburg; 11 Walls and White Elephants: Oil, Infrastructure, and the Materiality of Citizenship in Urban Equatorial Guinea*; 12 Nigerian Modernity and the City: Lagos 1960-1980; List of Contributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The Arts of Citizenship in African Cities pushes the frontiers of how we understand cities and citizenship and offers new perspectives on African urbanism. Nuanced ethnographic analyses of life in an array of African cities illuminate the emergent infrastructures and spaces of belonging through which urban lives and politics are being forged.