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Crisis and creativity : exploring the wealth of the African neighbourhood /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2006.
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| Colección: | African dynamics ;
5. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.