Africa and Urban Anthropology

This volume offers valuable anthropological insight into urban Africa, covering a range of cities across a continent that has become one of the fastest urbanizing geographic areas of the globe.

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Deborah Pellow is a Professor Emeritus in the Anthropology Department in the Maxwell School at Syracuse University, New York, USA.

Suzanne Scheld is a Professor in the Anthropology Department at California State University, Northridge, USA.

Inhalt

Part I: Introduction

1 Introduction * Deborah Pellow and Suzanne Scheld

• Part II. Knowing the City and Urban Imaginaries

2 Kafanchan: A Nigerian Town and its Global Horizons * Ulf Hannerz

• 3 Beyond the Rhodes Livingstone-Institute. Anthropological Research in Urban Africa from the 1930s to the 2000s * Katja Werthmann
• 4 Seeing the African Urban: Toward a Visual Anthropology of African Cities * Danny Hoffman
• 5 Mediated Ethnography: Images, Infrastructure, and New Imaginaries in Urban Africa * William Bissell
• 6 Class, Cities, and the Multiple-Disposition Habitus: Theoretical Insights from an African City * Anne Lewinson
• Part III. Urban Spaces 7 South Sudan, Politics of Liberation and Contest Over Juba * Jok Madut Jok
• 8 Manantali, Mali: Urbanization in and around a Small Town in the West Africa Savanna * Dolores Koenig
• 9 Place-Making, Regulatory Politics, and the Roots of Informality in Colonial Accra * Jennifer Hart
• 10 Schubart Park: Spatializing Opportunity in Colonial and Postcolonial South Africa * William Suk
• 11 On 'Worlding' Urban Ethnography: Conceptualizing Scalar Reconfigurations in an Ethiopian Frontier City * Daniel K. Thompson, Jemal Yusuf Mahamed, and Kader Mohamoud
• Part IV. Urban Infrastructure and Mobility

12 The Infrastructure of Submarine Urbanism: Zanzibar in a Black and Blue World * Garth Myers

• 13 Temporalities of Absence: Infrastructural Politics and Time in Cape Town's Informal Settlements * Angela Storey
• 14 Sorting 'Wire Spaghetti' in Zanzibar Stone Town * Rose Marie Beck
• 15 Modernity and the Art of Motorcycle Citizenship: Getting to Work in Nigeria's Planned Capital * Rudolf Gaudio
• Part V. Power of Urban Belongingness 16 We Were Running and Running: Rural-Urban Imaginaries and Strategic Mobility During the Liberian Civil War * Mary H. Moran
• 17 Reclaiming Citizenship: The Performance and Contestation of the Rural-Urban Distinction in Northern Ghana * Saida Hodzic
• 18 Religious Relevance Capital; the Urban Anthropology of Religious Diversity and the Significance of Social Support. The Case of Urban Religion in Botswana * Rijk van Dijk
• 19 Property, Mobility, and Belonging in an African Metropolis * Matthew Nesvet
• Part VI. Language and the City 20 Urban Surfaces and Linguistic Landscape: Writing, Power and Ideology in Dakar's Public Space * Fiona McLaughlin
• 21 Naming the Future in Urban Niger: The Scriptural Economy of the *Fadas

Adeline Masquelier

• 22 Igboro ni mo wa: Popular Linguistic Innovation in Urban Yoruba Lives * Augustine Agwuele
• Part VII. Conclusion

23 Conclusion

Afterword * Abdoumaliq Simone *