Spatial literacy : contemporary Asante women's place-making /

This book makes the case for an urgent praxis of critical spatial literacy for African women. It provides a critical analysis of how Asante women negotiate and understand the politics of contemporary space in Accra and beyond and the effect it has on their lives, demonstrating how they critically &q...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Amoo-Adare, Epifania Akosua, 1967-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Gender and cultural studies in Africa and the diaspora.
Subjects:
Spatial behavior > Ghana > Accra.
Women, Ashanti > Social conditions.
Feminist geography > Ghana > Accra.
Women, Ashanti > Ghana > Accra > Social conditions.
Femmes achanti > Conditions sociales.
Géographie féministe > Ghāna > Accra.
Femmes achanti > Ghāna > Accra > Conditions sociales.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Human Geography.
Feminist geography
Social conditions
Spatial behavior
Accra (Ghana) > Social conditions.
Ghana > Accra
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1. Introduction: Critical spatial literacy is urgent political praxis
  • Chapter 2. Feminist positionality: renegade architecture in a certain ambiguity
  • Chapter 3. Politics of (post)modern space: Asante women's place in a capitalist spatiality
  • Vignette 1. Auntie Pauline Sampene (mobility)
  • Chapter 4. Akwantu: travel and the making of roads
  • Vignette 2. Auntie Evelina Amoakohene (education)
  • Chapter 5. Anibuei: civilization and the opening of eyes
  • Vignette 3. Akosua Serwa Opoku-Bonsu (economics)
  • Chapter 6. Sikas'm: money matters and the love of gold
  • Vignette 4. Nana Sarpoma (Asante identity)
  • Chapter 7. Process not state, becoming not being
  • Chapter 8. Conclusion: towards a pedagogy of critical spatial literacy.

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