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1 online resource (viii, 254 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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African dynamics, 1568-1777 ; v. 5 |
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African dynamics ; 5.
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| Contents |
1. The African neighbourhood : an introduction / P. Konings, Rijk van Dijk & D. Foeken -- 2. Surviving in the neighbourhoods of Nakuru town, Kenya / Samuel Owuor & Dick Foeken -- 3. 'Bendskin' drivers in Douala's New Bell neighbourhood : masters of the road and the city / P. Konings -- 4. Intimate strangers : neighbourhood, autochthony and the politics of belonging / Basile Ndjio -- 5. Neighbourhood formation process : access to housing land in Kamwokya, Kampala, Uganda / Emmanuel Nkurunziza -- 6. Urban space, gender and identity : a neighbourhood of Muslim women in Kano, Nigeria / Katja Werthmann -- 7. Maps of what matters : community colour / Deborah Pellow -- 8. Not quite the comforts of home : searching for locality among street youth in Dar es Salaam / Eileen Moyer -- 9. Togolese cartographies : re-mapping space in a post-Cold War city / Charles Piot -- 10. Neighbours on the fringers of a small city in post-war Chad / Mirjam de Bruijn -- 11. Neighbourhood (re)construction and changing identities in Mauritania from a small town perspective / Kiky van Til |
| Summary |
At times of economic and political crisis in Sub-Saharan Africa, urban dwellers display a large degree of creativity in their survival strategies by developing social networks and constructing imaginative and original practices and ideas. This volume views the urban neighbourhood from two different perspectives and explores the importance of these creative processes. The first approach considers the neighbourhood as a geographical domain in which people are engaged in a variety of activities to advance their material and immaterial well-being, making use of their 'wealth' of opportunities, assets and diverse forms of natural, physical, financial, human and social 'capital'. The second angle sees the neighbourhood as not necessarily geographically located or bounded but as having been created and defined by human beings. These neighbourhoods may take on the form of self-help organizations, associations or churches, or may be based on gender, generational, ethnic or occupational identities. As the contributions from all over Sub-Saharan Africa show, the two approaches do not necessarily exclude each other |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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| Subject |
City and town life -- Africa
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Neighborhoods -- Africa
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Essays.
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City and town life
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Neighborhoods
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Nachbarschaft
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Africa
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Afrika
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Konings, Piet, author
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Foeken, D., author
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| ISBN |
9781435614826 |
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1435614828 |
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9047409035 |
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9789047409038 |
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