Crisis and Creativity

Exploring the Wealth of the African Neighbourhood
Herausgeber: Foeken, Dick; Konings, Piet

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

At times of economic and political crisis in Sub-Saharan Africa, urban dwellers display a large degree of creativity in their survival strategies by developing social networks and constructing imaginative and original practices and ideas. This volume views the urban neighbourhood from two different perspectives and explores the importance of these creative processes. The first approach considers the neighbourhood as a geographical domain in which people are engaged in a variety of activities to advance their material and immaterial well-being, making use of their 'wealth' of opportunities, assets and diverse forms of natural, physical, financial, human and social capital. The second angle sees the neighbourhood as not necessarily geographically located or bounded but as having been created and defined by human beings. These neighbourhoods may take on the form of self-help organizations, associations or churches, or be based on gender, generational, ethnic or occupational identities.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Brill
• Seitenzahl: 254
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. April 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 162mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 494g
• ISBN-13: 9789004150041
• ISBN-10: 9004150048
• Artikelnr.: 21813088

Autorenporträt

Piet Konings is a senior researcher at the African Studies Centre in Leiden where he studies political change and regionalism in Cameroon and the role of civil society in Africa. His main fields of interest are labour, rural development, ethno-regionalism and civil society in West Africa, especially in Cameroon and Ghana. Dick Foeken is a human geographer and senior researcher at the African Studies Centre. Over the last five years his research has focused on urban agriculture, urban poverty and urban-rural links, mainly in East Africa.