Urban Life-Worlds in Motion : African Perspectives.

Urban agglomerations host the most vital and creative societies. This applies particularly to Africa, where cities have the highest growth rates world-wide and where the urban population is younger than anywhere else. Urban life-worlds are the basis for the development of new lifestyles and new cult...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Hahn, Hans Peter
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: transcript Verlag, 2014.
Subjects:
City and town life > Africa.
Cities and towns > Africa > Social conditions.
Vie urbaine > Afrique.
Villes > Afrique > Conditions sociales.
Cities and towns > Social conditions.
City and town life.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban
Africa.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover Urban Life-Worlds in Motion ; Content; Preface ; Introduction. Urban Life-Worlds in Motion ; The Urban Poor, the Informal Sector and Environmental Health Policy in Nigeria ; 'I go chop your Dollar'. Scamming Practices and Notions of Moralities among Youth in Bamenda.
  • Movements into Emotions. Kinetic Tactics, Commotion and Conviviality among Traffic Vendors in Accra The Transnational Choice. Young Tuareg Traders between Niger and Nigeria ; The Issue of the Diaspo in Ouagadougou ; Haalpulaar Migrants' Home Connections. Travel and Communication Circuits.

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