Tasha Rijke-Epstein

Children of the Soil

The Power of Built Form in Urban Madagascar

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Produktbeschreibung

Tasha Rijke-Epstein offers an urban history of the Indian Ocean port city of Mahajanga, Madagascar, showing how the built environment was central to how its residents negotiated imperial encroachment, colonial rule, and global racial capitalism over two centuries.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 376
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9781478025290
• ISBN-10: 1478025298
• Artikelnr.: 67613472

Autorenporträt

Tasha Rijke-Epstein is Assistant Professor of History at Vanderbilt University.

Inhaltsangabe

Note on Toponyms  ix
Acknowledgments  xi
Introduction: Material Histories  1
I. Building Power
1. Casting the Land: Architectural Tactics and the Politics of Durability 
27
2. Vibrant Matters: The Rova and More-Than-Human Forces  54
II. Anticipatory Landscapes
3. Storied Refusals: Labor and Laden Absences  87
4. Sedimentary Bonds: Treasured Mosques and Everyday Expertise  123
III. Residual Lives and Afterlives
5. Garnered Presences: Constructing and Belonging in the Zanatany City  161
6. Violent Remnants: Infrastructures of Possibility and Peril  195
Epilogue: Unfinished Histories  225
Notes  241
Bibliography  293
Index  339