Title & Author:

African cities reader. II, Mobilities and fixtures / [Ntone Edjabe and Edgar Pieterse (editors)].

Publication:

Vlaeberg, South Africa : Chimurenga : African Centre for Cities, ©2011.

Description:

208 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm

Notes:
"African Cities Reader is a creation of Chimurenga and the African Centre for Cities"--Back cover.
Includes bibliographical references.
Preface -- Anti-teleology -- Airport theatre, African villian -- The car doctors of Maamobi -- Pilgrimages : Jambo -- Hargeisa snapshots -- Kin La Belle : in the clear light of song and silence -- Obstacles -- Tracks -- 'Here I am nobody' : rethinking urban governance, sovereignty and power -- Anti-iconic : the photography of David Adjaye -- Las Vegas : the last African city -- Oil city : petro-landscapes and sustainable futures -- Beira through the looking glass -- Avalon in two monuments -- Avalon -- The psychogeography of loose associations -- Tailor -- Adrift and exposed -- Mining sounds -- Every day is for the thief : an excerpt -- Harare north : an excerpt -- Towards a politics of mobility -- Straight, no chaser -- I have always meant to fail -- Ground/overground/underground -- Yeoville studio : negotiating the line between research and activism -- Spinning translocal -- Contributors.

ISBN:

9780981427348 (paperback)
0981427340 (paperback)

Subject:

Cities and towns Africa.
City and town life Africa.
Sociology, Urban Africa.
Migration, Internal Africa.
Villes Afrique.
Vie urbaine Afrique.
Sociologie urbaine Afrique.
Migration intérieure Afrique.
Cities and towns
City and town life
Migration, Internal
Social conditions
Sociology, Urban
Africa Social conditions 1960-
Afrique Conditions sociales 1960-
Africa

Added entries:

Edjabe, Ntone.
Pieterse, E. A. (Edgar A.)
University of Cape Town. African Centre for Cities.
Antoni Folkers and Belinda van Buiten Library, donor.
Chimurenga.

Mobilities and fixtures

Holdings:

Location: Library main 316454
Call No.: 316454
Copy: 1
Status: Available