Making & Remaking the African City: Studies in Urban Africa – serie
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6 produkter
Architecture and Politics in Africa
Making, Living and Imagining Identities through Buildings
Av Joanne Tomkinson, Daniel Mulugeta m. fl.
Häftad, 2022
366 kr
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Honourable Mention - 2023 ASR Prize for Best Africa-focused Anthology or Edited CollectionInnovative study of state politics, identity and buildings that sheds new light on the links between the material and the ideational realms of contemporary life in Africa.Buildings shape politics in the ways …
Migrants and Masculinity in High-Rise Nairobi
The Pressure of being a Man in an African City
Häftad, 2024
307 kr
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Examines how young male migrants in urban Nairobi navigate the tension between expectations of success and repetitive failure.Pipeline is a low-income, high-rise-tenement settlement in Nairobi's marginalized East and one of sub-Saharan Africa's most densely populated estates. An aspirational place …
Matatu Work
Gender, Labor, and Mobility in Nairobi
Inbunden, 2024
1104 kr
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Focuses on the lives and labour of the men and women who work in Nairobi's publicly operated, privately owned minibus taxis, matatu.How can mass transit systems be designed in ways that respond to the needs of urban citizens in the midst of an impending climate crisis? What strategies can transport …
Building the state in Africa – Political architecture: popular response
Häftad, 2026
307 kr
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Can the stories of states be told through their buildings? What can a former apartheid prison now constitutional court, the world's largest Catholic church, an imperial palace now theme park, and the football stadium that staged the Rumble in the Jungle reveal about state consolidation and the …
Matatu Work
Gender, Labor, and Mobility in Nairobi
Häftad, 2026
414 kr
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Focuses on the lives and labour of the men and women who work in Nairobi's publicly operated, privately owned minibus taxis, matatu.How can mass transit systems be designed in ways that respond to the needs of urban citizens in the midst of an impending climate crisis? What strategies can transport …
Building the state in Africa – Political architecture: popular response
Inbunden, 2026
1136 kr
Kommande
Can the stories of states be told through their buildings? What can a former apartheid prison now constitutional court, the world's largest Catholic church, an imperial palace now theme park, and the football stadium that staged the Rumble in the Jungle reveal about state consolidation and the …
