EAN: 9783110777024

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Housing matters no matter when or where. This volume of collected essays on housing in colonial and postcolonial Africa seeks to elaborate the how and the why. Housing is much more than a living everyday practice. It unfolds in its disparate dimensions of time space and agency. Context dependent it acquires diverse often ambivalent meanings. Housing can be a promise an unfulfilled dream a tool of self- and class-assertion a negotiation process or a means to achieve other ends. Our focus lies in analyzing housing in its multifacetedness be it a lens to offer insights into complex processes that shape societies be it a tool of empire to exercise control over private relations of inhabitants or be it a means to create good obedient and productive citizens. Contributions to this volume range from the field of history to architecture and urban planning African Studies linguistics and literature. The individual case studies home in on specific aspects and dimensions of housing and seek to bring them into dialogue with each other. By doing so the volume aims to add to the vibrant academic debate on studying urban practices and their significance for current social change.

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