The Politics Of Housing In Post Colonial Africa

Author : Kirsten Rüther,Martina Barker-Ciganikova,Daniela Waldburger,Carl-Philipp Bodenstein
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2020-06-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110601183

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The Politics of Housing in (Post-)Colonial Africa by Kirsten Rüther,Martina Barker-Ciganikova,Daniela Waldburger,Carl-Philipp Bodenstein Pdf

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.

Author : Kirsten Rüther,Martina Barker-Ciganikova,Daniela Waldburger,Carl-Philipp Bodenstein
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2020-06-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110598735

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The Politics of Housing in (Post-)Colonial Africa by Kirsten Rüther,Martina Barker-Ciganikova,Daniela Waldburger,Carl-Philipp Bodenstein Pdf

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.

Author : Kwadwo Konadu-Agyemang
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780275970031

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The Political Economy of Housing and Urban Development in Africa by Kwadwo Konadu-Agyemang Pdf

The problems of providing affordable and adequate housing in Sub-Saharan Africa with a focus on the urban experience in Ghana.

Author : Richard E. Stren
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Housing policy
ISBN : STANFORD:36105037213373

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Housing the Urban Poor in Africa by Richard E. Stren Pdf

Author : El-hadj M. Bah,Issa Faye,Zekebweliwai F. Geh
Publisher : Springer
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781137597922

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Housing Market Dynamics in Africa by El-hadj M. Bah,Issa Faye,Zekebweliwai F. Geh Pdf

This open access book utilizes new data to thoroughly analyze the main factors currently shaping the African housing market. Some of these factors include the supply and demand for housing finance, land tenure security issues, construction cost conundrum, infrastructure provision, and low-cost housing alternatives. Through detailed analysis, the authors investigate the political economy surrounding the continent’s housing market and the constraints that behind-the-scenes policy makers need to address in their attempts to provide affordable housing for the majority in need. With Africa’s urban population growing rapidly, this study highlights how broad demographic shifts and rapid urbanization are placing enormous pressure on the limited infrastructure in many cities and stretching the economic and social fabric of municipalities to their breaking point. But beyond providing a snapshot of the present conditions of the African housing market, the book offers recommendations and actionable measures for policy makers and other stakeholders on how best to provide affordable housing and alleviate Africa’s housing deficit. This work will be of particular interest to practitioners, non-governmental organizations, private sector actors, students and researchers of economic policy, international development, and urban development.

Author : Catherine Boone
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2014-02-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107040694

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Property and Political Order in Africa by Catherine Boone Pdf

In sub-Saharan Africa, property relationships around land and access to natural resources vary across localities, districts, and farming regions. These differences produce patterned variations in relationships between individuals, communities, and the state. This book captures these patterns in an analysis of structure and variation in rural land tenure regimes. In most farming areas, state authority is deeply embedded in land regimes, drawing farmers, ethnic insiders and outsiders, lineages, villages, and communities into direct and indirect relationships with political authorities at different levels of the state apparatus. The analysis shows how property institutions - institutions that define political authority and hierarchy around land - shape dynamics of great interest to scholars of politics, including the dynamics of land-related competition and conflict, territorial conflict, patron-client relations, electoral cleavage and mobilization, ethnic politics, rural rebellion, and the localization and "nationalization" of political competition.

Author : Meghan Healy-Clancy,Jason Hickel
Publisher : University of Kwazulu Natal Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Black people
ISBN : 1869142543

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Ekhaya by Meghan Healy-Clancy,Jason Hickel Pdf

"This book examines the African home as a key site of struggle in the making of modern KwaZulu-Natal, a South African province that instantiates in extreme form many of the transformations that shaped the colonial world. Its essays explore major themes in African and global history, including the colonial manipulation of kinship and the exploitation of labour, modernist practices of social engineering and the changes wrought within intimate relationships by post-industrial decline. Ranging from the rural to the urban and the pre-colonial era to the presidency of Jacob Zuma, this volume emphasises the affective and ideological dimensions of ikhaya. It offers insight into how the home, which embodies both modernist aspirations and nostalgic longings for the past, has become the touchstone for popular discontent and political activism in recent decades. Just as colonialism in South Africa was a colonialism of the home, so too politics in South Africa are a politics of the home."--Back cover.

Author : Walter Rodney
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781788731201

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How Europe Underdeveloped Africa by Walter Rodney Pdf

The classic work of political, economic, and historical analysis, powerfully introduced by Angela Davis In his short life, the Guyanese intellectual Walter Rodney emerged as one of the leading thinkers and activists of the anticolonial revolution, leading movements in North America, South America, the African continent, and the Caribbean. In each locale, Rodney found himself a lightning rod for working class Black Power. His deportation catalyzed 20th century Jamaica's most significant rebellion, the 1968 Rodney riots, and his scholarship trained a generation how to think politics at an international scale. In 1980, shortly after founding of the Working People's Alliance in Guyana, the 38-year-old Rodney would be assassinated. In his magnum opus, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, Rodney incisively argues that grasping "the great divergence" between the west and the rest can only be explained as the exploitation of the latter by the former. This meticulously researched analysis of the abiding repercussions of European colonialism on the continent of Africa has not only informed decades of scholarship and activism, it remains an indispensable study for grasping global inequality today.

Author : Corrie Decker,Elisabeth McMahon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107103696

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The Idea of Development in Africa by Corrie Decker,Elisabeth McMahon Pdf

An engaging history of how the idea of development has shaped Africa's past and present encounters with the West.

Author : Taylor & Francis Group
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1032177500

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The Political Economy of Government Subsidised Housing in South Africa by Taylor & Francis Group Pdf

This book unpacks the political economy of government subsidised housing programmes in South Africa. Exploring government policy towards subsidised housing in South Africa, this edited collection analyses various programmes, their shortcomings and potential options to address these weaknesses in the context of a country suffering from an exponential demand for housing in the face of insufficient supply. The Political Economy of Government Subsidised Housing in South Africa looks at the complex and contested nature of the issue in post-apartheid South Africa, stimulating debate and knowledge sharing on housing programmes, proffering solutions to the issue. The book explores the issue from both practical and intellectual standpoints, exploring the relationship between historical institutional legacies and contemporary power structures, and their role in provision of housing for the growing population of South Africa. This book will be of great interest to students of urban and regional planning, political economy, development studies, and African studies.

Author : D. Pal S. Ahluwalia
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2001-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0415247500

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Politics and Post-colonial Theory by D. Pal S. Ahluwalia Pdf

Taking post-colonial theory out of its literary confines and extending it in order to understand the complexities and dynamics of post-colonial African politics, this text shows how Africans transform and inflect their inherited institutions.

Author : Ambe J. Njoh
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015042568124

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Urban Planning, Housing and Spatial Structures in Sub-Saharan Africa by Ambe J. Njoh Pdf

Breaking with tradition, this volume identifies the causes of underdevelopment in sub–Saharan Africa by linking historical experience of colonial development policies with their current development problems. This book analyzes the impact of urban and regional planning schemes with (European) colonial roots, for contemporary socio-economic development efforts in sub-Saharan Africa.

Author : Ambe J. Njoh
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351910842

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Planning in Contemporary Africa by Ambe J. Njoh Pdf

Why do authorities in post-colonial African states continue to employ European or Western planning models? What are the implications for different societal groups of adopting such models? Several decades following independence, this outstanding volume provides in-depth empirical research to uncover the answers to such questions. The book focuses in particular on Cameroon, the only African country to have been colonized by three different European powers: Germany, Britain and France. It discusses the nature of the state in peripheral capitalist countries and sets current planning and land use policies in their historical, colonial and post-colonial contexts. The author then proceeds to examine key planning issues such as housing, land ownership, sustainable development, environmental and waste management, transportation, infrastructure and gender. In addition to analyzing the impact of colonialism and imperialism on the built environment in Cameroon in particular and sub-Saharan Africa in general, the book also addresses global issues about urbanism and will be particularly relevant to those interested in planning, regional studies and development, and development geography.

Author : David Morton
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-17
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780821446751

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Age of Concrete by David Morton Pdf

Age of Concrete is a history of the making of houses and homes in the subúrbios of Maputo (Lourenço Marques), Mozambique, from the late 1940s to the present. Often dismissed as undifferentiated, ahistorical “slums,” these neighborhoods are in fact an open-air archive that reveals some of people’s highest aspirations. At first people built in reeds. Then they built in wood and zinc panels. And finally, even when it was illegal, they risked building in concrete block, making permanent homes in a place where their presence was often excruciatingly precarious. Unlike many histories of the built environment in African cities, Age of Concrete focuses on ordinary homebuilders and dwellers. David Morton thus models a different way of thinking about urban politics during the era of decolonization, when one of the central dramas was the construction of the urban stage itself. It shaped how people related not only to each other but also to the colonial state and later to the independent state as it stumbled into being. Original, deeply researched, and beautifully composed, this book speaks in innovative ways to scholarship on urban history, colonialism and decolonization, and the postcolonial state. Replete with rare photographs and other materials from private collections, Age of Concrete establishes Morton as one of a handful of scholars breaking new ground on how we understand Africa’s cities.

Author : Gillian Glaes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2018-07-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351698627

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African Political Activism in Postcolonial France by Gillian Glaes Pdf

African Political Activism in Postcolonial France engages with several areas of scholarly inquiry, ranging from the study of immigrants to the investigation of surveillance and the legacy of colonialism. Within migration studies, many important analyses have focused on integration, yielding critical contributions to our understanding of immigration and identity. This work moves in a different direction. Factoring in the dynamics of colonialism, decolonization, and their effect on immigrant political activism and state policy in the postcolonial, Cold War era reveals that immigrants from francophone Sub-Saharan Africa were key players who shaped the development of public policy toward immigrants. Through this approach, we can understand how republicanism, colonial ideology, immigration policy, and immigrant political activism intersected in the post-colonial era, shaping the reception of African workers and affecting their lives and experiences in France.