Housing matters, no matter when or where. This volume of collected essays
on housing in colonial and postcolonial Africa seeks to elaborate how
and why housing is much more than an everyday practice.
The politics
of housing unfold in disparate dimensions of time, space and agency.
Depending on context, they acquire 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. This
volume analyzes 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 debate on studying urban practices and their significance
for current social change.
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