Addamms Mututa

Crisis Urbanism and Postcolonial African Cities in Postmillennial Cinema

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Produktbeschreibung

This book provides a framework to rethink postcoloniality and urbanism from African perspectives. Bringing together multidisciplinary perspectives on African crises through postmillennial films the book addresses the need to situate global south cultural studies within the region.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 142
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Oktober 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 390g
• ISBN-13: 9780367640835
• ISBN-10: 036764083X
• Artikelnr.: 62227477

Autorenporträt

Addamms Mututa is a postdoctoral research fellow at the African Centre for Cities, University of Cape Town. He practices interdisciplinary research on cinema and global south cities and holds a joint PhD from the University of Tübingen, Germany, and the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Crisis Urbanism in Context 2. Crisis of Nonentity - 'Unknowing'
Johannesburg's Postapartheid Townships 3. Laissez Faire Urbanism: Economies
of Dystopia in Postcolonial Kinshasa 4. Urbanism of the Commons: Inhabiting
Trash and a Crisis of Communing in Nairobi 5. Rarray Urbanism: The
Superficies of Monrovia's Hustlers in Postwar Urban Crisis 6. Revolt
Urbanism: Cairo's Crisis Citizenship Under Construction 7. Outlier
Urbanism: Inside Luanda's Postwar Cantonments 8. Crisis Urbanism and the
Future of African Cities