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Welcome to greater Edendale : histories of environment, health, and gender in an African city /
"In the coming decades, the bulk of Africa's anticipated urban population growth will take place in smaller cities. Failure to manage environmental and public health problems in one such aspiring city, Edendale, has fostered severe pollution, seemingly intractable poverty, and gender inequ...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Montreal ; Kingston :
McGill-Queen's University Press,
2016.
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| Series: | McGill-Queen's studies in urban governance ;
5. |
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Setting the scene
- 2. Colonial tropes and traps
- 3. Sketching the environmental history of Msunduzi to 1939
- 4. The native village debate in Pietermaritzburg, 1848-1925
- 5. "Hide as much as you can for the sake of good government": women's health, gender, and local authority in Edendale, 1930-1958
- 6. KwaPoyinandi and the racialization of space to the 1980s
- 7. From "demented" to "democracy": continuities and conflict in the growth model of development from the 1970s to the present.