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This volume offers valuable anthropological insight into urban
Africa, covering a range of cities across a continent that has
become one of the fastest urbanizing geographic areas of the globe.
Consideration is given to the structures, social formations, and
rhythms that constitute the definition of an African city, town, or
urban space, and to current concepts for thinking about African
cities in the twenty-first century. The contributors examine topics
including notions of belonging, the effects of globalization,
colonialism, and transnationalism on African urban life, the
cultural dimensions of infrastructure and public resources,
mobility, labor issues, spatial organization, language, and popular
culture trends, among other themes. The book reflects on how the
ethnography of urban Africa fits within anthropology and urban
studies, and on new theoretical concepts and methodologies that can
be created through anthropological fieldwork in African cities. It
will be of particular interest to scholars and students from
anthropology, African studies and urban studies, as well as
sociology and geography.
This book focuses on the economic, political, social, and cultural
dynamics of street economies across the urban Global South.
Although contestations over public space have a long history,
Street Economies in the Urban Global South presents the argument
that the recent conjuncture of neoliberal economic policies and
unprecedented urban growth in the Global South has changed the
equation. The detailed ethnographic accounts from postsocialist
Vietnam to a struggling democracy in the Philippines, from the
former command economies in Africa to previously authoritarian
regimes in Latin America, focus on the experiences of often
marginalised street workers who describe their projects and plans.
The contributors to Street Economies in the Urban Global South
highlight individual and collective resistance by street vendors to
overcome numerous processes that exacerbate the marginality and
disempowerment of street economy work.
This volume brings together top researchers, thinkers, and
activists from across disciplines to reflect on the study of
Africa. Critical Dimensions of African Studies: Re-Membering Africa
emphasizes a critique of power structures, the promotion of human
liberation, a commitment to social justice and transformation, and
critical reflection on the politics of the production and
circulation of knowledge of Africa. Editors, Jennifer De Maio,
Suzanne Scheld, and Tom Spencer-Walter, organize the book around
three related key themes: international/transnational, humanistic,
and combined critical theory and practice perspectives. They argue
that each theme represents an important dimension of contemporary
African and African Diaspora Studies and re-centering these themes
within the discipline will help to advance the field. The diverse
contributors capture the goal and method for re-membering Africa by
reflecting and defining the field from various disciplines in order
to consider the history, the critical debates, and the challenges
to current views of the status and future direction of African
Studies.
This book considers the issue of sustainability in sub-Saharan
Africa. It assesses the progress that has been made in sustainable
development and the challenges that must still be addressed. Most
importantly, it focuses on African experiences with sustainable
development. Using the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
(SDGs) as the framework for the analysis, the manuscript traces how
the discourse on sustainability has evolved from a cultural,
political, economic, and social perspective. It focuses on the
goals for climate action, sustainable cities and communities,
institutions, and partnerships to examine the vulnerability of
Africans to climate change, attitudes towards sustainability,
ethical challenges to implementing sustainable development
programs, the relationship between governance, poverty, and
sustainability, environmental terrorism, sustainable health care,
sustainable transportation, and the use of open green space to
promote a sustainable urban community. The book integrates the
theory, practice, ethics, and policy of sustainability to better
understand the implications for problems and responses to
sustainable development in Africa. No book has applied the SDGs to
an evaluation of sustainable development in Africa. This book fills
that gap. Chapters from leading scholars utilize various research
methods combined with case study analysis to provide context and a
deeper understanding of the critical issues in sustainability in
the sub-Saharan African world. The first section of the book
examines the theory of sustainability and provides an overview of
some of the most important institutional questions in the discourse
on environmental policies in the African world. The next section of
the book focuses on the issues and challenges that inform our
understanding of sustainability and the implementation of best
practices. Sustainability is examined in a global context as the
difficulties in enforcing international standards and protections
in the state-centered international order are considered. The final
part of the book engages in a more in-depth examination of several
specific examples of sustainability in urban Africa.
Urban parks such as New York City's Central Park provide vital
public spaces where city dwellers of all races and classes can
mingle safely while enjoying a variety of recreations. By coming
together in these relaxed settings, different groups become
comfortable with each other, thereby strengthening their
communities and the democratic fabric of society. But just the
opposite happens when, by design or in ignorance, parks are made
inhospitable to certain groups of people. This pathfinding book
argues that cultural diversity should be a key goal in designing
and maintaining urban parks. Using case studies of New York City's
Prospect Park, Orchard Beach in Pelham Bay Park, and Jacob Riis
Park in the Gateway National Recreation Area, as well as New York's
Ellis Island Bridge Proposal and Philadelphia's Independence
National Historical Park, the authors identify specific ways to
promote, maintain, and manage cultural diversity in urban parks.
They also uncover the factors that can limit park use, including
historical interpretive materials that ignore the contributions of
different ethnic groups, high entrance or access fees, park usage
rules that restrict ethnic activities, and park "restorations" that
focus only on historical or aesthetic values. With the wealth of
data in this book, urban planners, park professionals, and all
concerned citizens will have the tools to create and maintain
public parks that serve the needs and interests of all the public.
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