Cover -- Contents -- Note on Toponyms -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Material Histories -- I. Building Power -- 1. Casting the Land: Architectural Tactics and the Politics of Durability -- 2. Vibrant Matters: The Rova and More-Than-Human Forces -- II. Anticipatory Landscapes -- 3. Storied Refusals: Labor and Laden Absences -- 4. Sedimentary Bonds: Treasured Mosques and Everyday Expertise -- III. Residual Lives and Afterlives -- 5. Garnered Presences: Constructing Belonging in the Zanatany City -- 6. Violent Remnants: Infrastructures of Possibility and Peril
Epilogue: Unfinished Histories -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z -- Untitled
Summary
Tasha Rijke-Epstein offers an urban history of the Indian Ocean port city of Mahajanga, Madagascar, showing how the built environment was central to how its residents negotiated imperial encroachment, colonial rule, and global racial capitalism over two centuries
