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Oxford Street, Accra : city life and the itineraries of transnationalism /
In Oxford Street, Accra, Ato Quayson analyzes the dynamics of Ghana's capital city through a focus on Oxford Street, part of Accra's most vibrant and globalized commercial district and a microcosm of historical and urban processes that have made Accra the variegated and contradictory metro...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
2014.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: urban theory and performative streetscapes
- Ga Akutso formation and the question of hybridity : the Afro-Brazilians (Tabon) of Accra
- The spatial fix : colonial administration, disaster management, and land-use distribution in early twentieth-century Accra
- Osu borla no, sardine chensii soo: Danes, Euro-Africans, and the transculturation of Os
- "The beautyful ones": tro-tro slogans, cell phone advertising, and the hallelujah chorus
- "Este loco, loco" : transnationalism and the shaping of Accra's salsa scene
- Pumping irony : gymming, the Kóbóló, and the cultural economy of free time
- The lettered city : literary representations of Accra
- Conclusion: on urban free time: Vladimir, Estragon, and Rem Koolhaas.