Monrovia Modern

Author : Danny Hoffman
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780822373087

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Monrovia Modern by Danny Hoffman Pdf

In Monrovia Modern Danny Hoffman uses the ruins of four iconic modernist buildings in Monrovia, Liberia, as a way to explore the relationship between the built environment and political imagination. Hoffman shows how the E. J. Roye tower and the Hotel Africa luxury resort, as well as the unfinished Ministry of Defense and Liberia Broadcasting System buildings, transformed during the urban warfare of the 1990s from symbols of the modernist project of nation-building to reminders of the challenges Monrovia's residents face. The transient lives of these buildings' inhabitants, many of whom are ex-combatants, prevent them from making place-based claims to a right to the city and hinder their ability to think of ways to rebuild and repurpose their built environment. Featuring nearly 100 of Hoffman's color photographs, Monrovia Modern is situated at the intersection of photography, architecture, and anthropology, mapping out the possibilities and limits for imagining an urban future in Monrovia and beyond.

Author : Thomas Streissguth
Publisher : Twenty-First Century Books
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0822524651

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Liberia in Pictures by Thomas Streissguth Pdf

Discusses the economy, geography, government, people, cultural life, and history of Liberia.

Author : Townsend Middleton
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780520399129

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Quinine's Remains by Townsend Middleton Pdf

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. What happens after colonial industries have run their course--after the factory closes and the fields go fallow? Set in the cinchona plantations of India's Darjeeling Hills, Quinine's Remains chronicles the history and aftermaths of quinine. Harvested from cinchona bark, quinine was malaria's only remedy until the twentieth-century advent of synthetic drugs, and it was vital to the British Empire. Today, the cinchona plantations--and the roughly fifty thousand people who call them home--remain. Their futures, however, are unclear. The Indian government has threatened to privatize or shut down this seemingly obsolete and crumbling industry, but the plantation community, led by strident trade unions, has successfully resisted. Overgrown cinchona fields and shuttered quinine factories may appear the stuff of postcolonial and postindustrial ruination, but quinine's remains are not dead. Rather, they have become the site of urgent efforts to redefine land and life for the twenty-first century. Quinine's Remains offers a vivid historical and ethnographic portrait of what it means to forge life after empire.

Author : Swati Chattopadhyay,Jeremy White
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 949 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2019-08-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781317422655

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The Routledge Companion to Critical Approaches to Contemporary Architecture by Swati Chattopadhyay,Jeremy White Pdf

The Routledge Companion to Critical Approaches to Contemporary Architecture convenes a wide array of critical voices from architecture, art history, urbanism, geography, anthropology, media and performance studies, computer science, bio-engineering, environmental studies, and sociology that help us understand the meaning and significance of global architecture of the twenty-first century. New chapters by 36 contributors illustrated with over 140 black-and-white images are assembled in six parts concerning both real and virtual spaces: design, materiality, alterity, technologies, cityscapes, and practice.

Author : United States. Department of State
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 918 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1955
Category : United States
ISBN : MINN:31951T00248561T

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Foreign Relations of the United States by United States. Department of State Pdf

Author : Shakirah E. Hudani
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2024-04-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226832746

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Master Plans and Minor Acts by Shakirah E. Hudani Pdf

An examination of planning, place, and the politics of repair in post-genocide Rwanda. Master Plans and Minor Acts examines a “material politics of repair” in post-genocide Rwanda, where in a country saturated with deep historical memory, spatial master planning aims to drastically redesign urban spaces. How is the post-conflict city reconstituted through the work of such planning, and with what effects for material repair and social conciliation? Through extended ethnographic and qualitative research in Rwanda in the decades after the genocide of 1994, this book questions how repair after conflict is realized amidst large-scale urban transformation. Bridging African studies, urban studies, and human geography in its scope, this work ties Rwanda’s transformation to contexts of urban change in other post-conflict spaces, bringing to the fore critical questions about the ethics of planning in such complex geographies.

Author : Jeffrey W. Paller
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2019-03-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781316513309

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Democracy in Ghana by Jeffrey W. Paller Pdf

A detailed account of politics in Ghana's urban neighborhoods, providing a new way to understand African democracy and development.

Author : Valerie Hébert
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
ISBN : 9780299344108

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Framing the Holocaust by Valerie Hébert Pdf

In December 1941, German police and their local collaborators shot 2,749 Jews at the beach in Sķēde, near Liepāja, Latvia. Twelve photographs were taken at the scene. These now-infamous images show people in extreme distress, sometimes without clothing. Some capture the very moments when women and children confronted their imminent deaths, while others show their dead bodies. They are nearly unbearable to look at--so why should we? Framing the Holocaust offers a multidimensional response to this question. While photographs are central to our memory of modern historical events, they often inhabit an ambivalent intellectual space. What separates the sincere desire to understand from voyeuristic curiosity? Comprehending atrocity photographs requires viewers to place themselves in the very positions of the perpetrators who took the images. When we engage with these photographs, do we risk replicating the original violence? In this tightly organized book, scholars of history, photography, language, gender, photojournalism, and pedagogy examine the images of the Sķēde atrocity along with other difficult images, giving historical, political, and ethical depth to the acts of looking and interpreting. With a foreword by Edward Anders, who narrowly escaped the December 1941 shooting, Framing the Holocaust represents an original approach to an iconic series of Holocaust photographs. This book will contribute to compelling debates in the emerging field of visual history, including the challenges and responsibilities of using photographs to teach about atrocity.

Author : Adrienne J. Cohen
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2021-07-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226781167

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Infinite Repertoire by Adrienne J. Cohen Pdf

In Guinea’s capital city of Conakry, dance is everywhere. Most neighborhoods boast at least one dance troupe, and members of those troupes animate the city’s major rites of passage and social events. In Infinite Repertoire, Adrienne Cohen shows how dance became such a prominent—even infrastructural—feature of city life in Guinea, and tells a surprising story of the rise of creative practice under a political regime known for its authoritarianism and violent excesses. Guinea’s socialist state, which was in power from 1958 to 1984, used staged African dance or “ballet” strategically as a political tool, in part by tapping into indigenous conceptualizations of artisans as powerful figures capable of transforming the social fabric through their manipulation of vital energy. Far from dying with the socialist revolution, Guinean ballet continued to thrive in Conakry after economic liberalization in the 1980s, with its connection to transformative power retrofitted for a market economy and a rapidly expanding city. Infinite Repertoire follows young dancers and percussionists in Conakry as they invest in the present—using their bodies to build a creative urban environment and to perform and redefine social norms and political subjectivities passed down from the socialist generation before them. Cohen’s inventive ethnography weaves the political with the aesthetic, placing dance at the center of a story about dramatic political change and youthful resourcefulness in one of the least-studied cities on the African continent.

Author : Paul Stacey
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2019-04-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781786992055

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State of Slum by Paul Stacey Pdf

Home to eighty thousand people, Accra's Old Fadama neighbourhood is the largest illegal slum in Ghana. Though almost all its inhabitants are Ghanaian born, their status as illegal 'squatters' means that they live a precarious existence, marginalised within Ghanaian society and denied many of the rights to which they are entitled as citizens. The case of Old Fadama is far from unique. Across Africa, over half the population now lives in cities, and a lack of affordable housing means that growing numbers live in similar illegal slum communities, often in appalling conditions. Drawing on rich, ethnographic fieldwork, the book takes as its point of departure the narratives that emerge from the everyday lives and struggles of these people, using the perspective offered by Old Fadama as a means of identifying wider trends and dynamics across African slums. Central to Stacey's argument is the idea that such slums possess their own structures of governance, grounded in processes of negotiation between slum residents and external actors. In the process, Stacey transforms our understanding not only of slums, but of governance itself, moving us beyond prevailing state-centric approaches to consider how even a society's most marginal members can play a key role in shaping and contesting state power.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2022-02-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004471641

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African Futures by Anonim Pdf

The essays in this collection are written to make readers (re)consider what is possible in Africa. The essays shake the tree of received wisdom and received categories, and hone in on the complexities of life under ecological and economic constraints. Yet, throughout this volume, people do not emerge as victims, but rather as inventors, engineers, scientists, planners, writers, artists, and activists, or as children, mothers, fathers, friends, or lovers – all as future-makers. It is precisely through agents such as these that Africa is futuring: rethinking, living, confronting, imagining, and relating in the light of its many emerging tomorrows.

Author : Claire Mercer
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2024-09-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520402386

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The Suburban Frontier by Claire Mercer Pdf

"African cities are under construction. Beyond the dazzling urban redevelopment schemes and large-scale infrastructure projects reconfiguring central city skylines, the majority of urban residents are putting their cash, energy, and aspirations into finding land and building homes on city edges. In the Tanzanian city of Dar es Salaam, the self-built suburban frontier has become the place where the middle classes are shaped. This book examines how investment in property-land, houses, and landscape-is central to middle-class formation and urban transformation in contemporary Africa"--

Author : Terrence Sesay
Publisher : Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2014-12-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781625160584

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Behind NPFL and RUF Rebel Lines by Terrence Sesay Pdf

The novel Behind NPFL and RUF Rebel Lines is a chronicle of my personal experiences during my odyssey in search of security during the wars in Liberia and Sierra Leone from 1990 to July 1992. My main characters are former rebel leaders Charles Taylor of the National Patriotic Front of Liberia (NFPL), and Foday Sankoh of the Sierra Leonean rebel group Revolutionary United Front (RUF). Some of these experiences were so traumatic that I felt obliged to pen them for the world. I also contribute to the debate about the war in Sierra Leone, which has become an issue for international jurisdiction. This book provides an historical account of the Liberian conflict and an eyewitness account of the initial stage of the RUF rebel war. I also provide background for the ascendancy to power of Africa’s first elected female president, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, and her reign from 2006 to 2013.

Author : Joseph C. Dunn,Sandy Gillis,Jill Alison Ganon
Publisher : Prospect Park Publishing
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Travel
ISBN : 097539391X

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Hometown Pasadena by Joseph C. Dunn,Sandy Gillis,Jill Alison Ganon Pdf

Hometown Pasadena is a new breed of city guide, an in-depth, personality-rich, four-color book written by locals for locals. The five co-authors Colleen Dunn Bates, Jill Ganon, Sandy Gillis, Mel Malmberg and Mary Jane Horton are all longtime San Gabriel Valley residents, and the foreword authors are Larry Mantle (from NPR's KPCC) and Larry Wilson (editor of the Pasadena Star-News). The book is rich in history, arts, culture, restaurants, gardens, architecture, children's activities, sports and much more, and it is filled with interviews with people who make a difference in the community. It is written and designed with wit, style and intelligence. Hometown Pasadena became an immediate success, going into its fourth printing in less than one year. 256 pages, four-color throughout, flexibound binding with flaps, extensive photography and color maps

Author : Wale Adebanwi,Rogers Orock
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-24
Category : HISTORY
ISBN : 9780472054817

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Elites and the Politics of Accountability in Africa by Wale Adebanwi,Rogers Orock Pdf

Studying elites through the framework of accountability