04327nam 22008055 450 991080993170332120200919094657.01-349-44801-X1-137-28107-310.1057/9781137281074(CKB)2550000001105033(EBL)1161335(OCoLC)832399768(SSID)ssj0001660932(PQKBManifestationID)16440223(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001660932(PQKBWorkID)14990063(PQKB)10634336(SSID)ssj0000915169(PQKBManifestationID)12402172(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000915169(PQKBWorkID)10868521(PQKB)10724633(DE-He213)978-1-137-28107-4(MiAaPQ)EBC1161335(EXLCZ)99255000000110503320151126d2013 u| 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrSpatial Literacy Contemporary Asante Women’s Place-making /by E. Amoo-Adare1st ed. 2013.New York :Palgrave Macmillan US :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2013.1 online resource (193 p.)Gender and Cultural Studies in Africa and the DiasporaDescription based upon print version of record.1-137-28106-5 1-299-40628-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Glossary of Twi Terms; Acknowledgments; Prologue; 1. Introduction: Critical Spatial Literacy is Urgent Political Praxis; 2. Feminist Positionality: Renegade Architecture in a Certain Ambiguity; 3. Politics of (Post)Modern Space: Asante Women's Place in a Capitalist Spatiality; Vignette 1 Auntie Pauline Sampene (Mobility); 4. Akwantu : Travel and the Making of New Roads; Vignette 2 Auntie Evelina Amoakohene (Education); 5. Anibuei : Civilization and the Opening of EyesVignette 3 Akosua Serwa Opoku-Bonsu (Economics)6. Sikasem : Money Matters and the Love of Gold; Vignette 4 Nana Sarpoma (Asante Identity); 7. Process Not State, Becoming Not Being; 8. Conclusion: Toward a Pedagogy of Critical Spatial Literacy; Notes; Bibliography; IndexIn this remarkable work of interdisciplinary scholarship, architect and scholar Epifania Akosua Amoo-Adare makes the case for an urgently needed praxis of critical spatial literacy, particularly for women of African descent. Through a compelling analysis of fifteen Asante women's negotiation of the politics of space, she demonstrates how they critically read the postmodern world in order to make place within it. This contains within it the promise of a feminist, 'renegade' architectural project in which spatial literacy allows one to navigate the significant socio-spatial effects of akwantu, anibuei ne sikas?m: travel, 'civilization,' and economics.Gender and Cultural Studies in Africa and the DiasporaEthnology—AfricaSociologySociology, UrbanFeminist theoryAfrican Culturehttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/411030Sociology, generalhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/X22000Gender Studieshttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/X35000Urban Studies/Sociologyhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/X22250Feminismhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/E44030Accra (Ghana)Social conditionsEthnology—Africa.Sociology.Sociology, Urban.Feminist theory.African Culture.Sociology, general.Gender Studies.Urban Studies/Sociology.Feminism.304.2308209667Amoo-Adare Eauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut1687940BOOK9910809931703321Spatial Literacy4061809UNINA