The Politics of Housing in (Post-)Colonial Africa: Accommodating Workers and Urban Residents

by Rüther, Barker-Ciganikova, Kirsten

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3110777029
• ISBN13: 9783110777024
• Release Date: January 2022
• Publisher: de Gruyter Oldenbourg
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary