EAN: 9783110777024

THE POLITICS OF HOUSING IN (POST-)COLONIAL AFRI...

Housing matters  no matter when or where. This volume of collected essays on housing in
colonial and postcolonial Africa seeks to elaborate the how and the why. Housing is much more
than a living everyday practice. It unfolds in its disparate dimensions of time  space and
agency. Context dependent  it acquires diverse  often ambivalent  meanings. Housing can be a
promise  an unfulfilled dream  a tool of self- and class-assertion  a negotiation process  or a
means to achieve other ends. Our focus lies in analyzing housing in its multifacetedness  be it
a lens to offer insights into complex processes that shape societies  be it a tool of empire to
exercise control over private relations of inhabitants  or be it a means to create good 
obedient and productive citizens. Contributions to this volume range from the field of history
to architecture and urban planning  African Studies  linguistics  and literature. The
individual case studies home in on specific aspects and dimensions of housing and seek to bring
them into dialogue with each other. By doing so  the volume aims to add to the vibrant academic
debate on studying urban practices and their significance for current social change.

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