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Do-it-yourself urbanism in Africa : politics and practice
No full textProtracted economic crises, accelerating inequalities, and increased resource scarcity present significant challenges for the majority of Africa's urban population. Limited state capacity and widespread infrastructure deficiencies common in cities across the continent often require residents to draw on their own resources, knowledge, and expertise to resolve these life and livelihood dilemmas. DIY Urbanism in Africa investigates these practices. It develops a theoretical framework through which to analyze them, and it presents a series of case studies to demonstrate how residents invent new DIY tactics and strategies in response to security, place-making, or economic problems. This book offers a timely critical intervention into literatures on urban development and politics in Africa. It is valuable to students, policymakers, and urban practitioners keen to understand the mechanisms and political implications of widespread dynamics now shaping Africa's expanding urban environments.Contents: Introduction: Do-it-yourself Urbanism in Africa's Cities / Patience Mususa and Stephen Marr -- Comparative DIY Urbanisms: Reflections on a Concept's Pasts, Presents and Futures / Stephen Marr -- The Makeshift City and Do-it-yourself (DIY) Urbanism / Martin J. Murray -- Reflections on the DIY Paradigm and Urban Living in Nigeria / Mohamed-Bello Yunusa -- DIY Urbanism in an African Context and its Potential as a Collaborative Placemaking Tool for Bridging Africa's Urban Infrastructure Deficit / Mathias Agbo Jr. -- Political Economy of Community-Led Security Provisioning in Urban Africa / Victor Adetula -- The Politics of Urban Insecurity: Hybrid relations and party dominance in Lagos / Nigeria, Henrik Angerbrandt -- 'Accra We Dey': Precarious Histories, Creative Place-Making, and Reimagined Futures in Urban Ghana / Jennifer Hart -- Everyday spatial practices and production of urban commons in Accra, Ghana / Victoria Okoye -- Learning from DIY urbanism: Lessons from Freetown / Federico Monica -- DIY Urbanism as Ecotopia: The Case of the Green Camp Gallery in Durban, South Africa / Antje Daniel -- Disability and Urbanism in Malawi / Jonathan Makuwira -- The Biopolitics of Do-it-yourself Urbanism on the Zambian Copperbelt / Patience Mususa -- Conclusion: DIY Urbanism as Politics of Interruption / Stephen Marr and Patience Mususa</p
Do-it-yourself urbanism in Africa : politics and practice
No full textProtracted economic crises, accelerating inequalities, and increased resource scarcity present significant challenges for the majority of Africa's urban population. Limited state capacity and widespread infrastructure deficiencies common in cities across the continent often require residents to draw on their own resources, knowledge, and expertise to resolve these life and livelihood dilemmas. DIY Urbanism in Africa investigates these practices. It develops a theoretical framework through which to analyze them, and it presents a series of case studies to demonstrate how residents invent new DIY tactics and strategies in response to security, place-making, or economic problems. This book offers a timely critical intervention into literatures on urban development and politics in Africa. It is valuable to students, policymakers, and urban practitioners keen to understand the mechanisms and political implications of widespread dynamics now shaping Africa's expanding urban environments.Contents: Introduction: Do-it-yourself Urbanism in Africa's Cities / Patience Mususa and Stephen Marr -- Comparative DIY Urbanisms: Reflections on a Concept's Pasts, Presents and Futures / Stephen Marr -- The Makeshift City and Do-it-yourself (DIY) Urbanism / Martin J. Murray -- Reflections on the DIY Paradigm and Urban Living in Nigeria / Mohamed-Bello Yunusa -- DIY Urbanism in an African Context and its Potential as a Collaborative Placemaking Tool for Bridging Africa's Urban Infrastructure Deficit / Mathias Agbo Jr. -- Political Economy of Community-Led Security Provisioning in Urban Africa / Victor Adetula -- The Politics of Urban Insecurity: Hybrid relations and party dominance in Lagos / Nigeria, Henrik Angerbrandt -- 'Accra We Dey': Precarious Histories, Creative Place-Making, and Reimagined Futures in Urban Ghana / Jennifer Hart -- Everyday spatial practices and production of urban commons in Accra, Ghana / Victoria Okoye -- Learning from DIY urbanism: Lessons from Freetown / Federico Monica -- DIY Urbanism as Ecotopia: The Case of the Green Camp Gallery in Durban, South Africa / Antje Daniel -- Disability and Urbanism in Malawi / Jonathan Makuwira -- The Biopolitics of Do-it-yourself Urbanism on the Zambian Copperbelt / Patience Mususa -- Conclusion: DIY Urbanism as Politics of Interruption / Stephen Marr and Patience Mususa</p
Análisis crítico de la nueva ciudad minera Kalumbila, Zambia
Full text linkMining company towns are concrete sites where the spatial government of mining companies and
its consequences can be studied. In this thesis I did a qualitative case study on the new mining
company town Kalumbila based on three months of field work between June and September
2019. Kalumbila is being developed next to a copper mine owned by First Quantum Minerals
Ltd. (FQM) in the Northwestern Province of Zambia. It is a particularly interesting case to study,
as it is presented as a model town, open to non-miner residents and investors and designed to be
sustainable and outlive the mine’s lifespan. I analysed how FQM governs space and people in
Kalumbila by examining the planning goals for the town, the access regime to town infrastructure
and services, as well as the narratives and practices of residents. The analysis shows that there is
a strong overlap between the work and private life of people in Kalumbila. This has contributed
to a lack of privacy and trust among residents, which in turn has reduced their participation in
the town community. Moreover, house sharing is a common practice in Kalumbila and has led
to the fact that many residents see the town as a place of accommodation during work, rather
than a new home. The research further demonstrates that hierarchies in the mining company are
strongly influencing the social structures in Kalumbila, having resulted in the creation of spatially
segregated and socially distinct groups. To which group a person belongs, determines his or her
possibilities of accessing town infrastructure and services. Kalumbila presents thus a spatial
imprint of the mining company hierarchies. By providing insight into the functioning of a new
mining company town, this thesis contributes to an understanding of the socio-spatial
transformations induced by large-scale mining operations in the Global South.Esta tesis es un estudio de caso cualitativo sobre la nueva ciudad minera de
Kalumbila, basado en tres meses de trabajo de campo en el 2019. Kalumbila
se está desarrollando junto a una mina de cobre perteneciente a First
Quantum Minerals Ltd. (FQM) en Zambia.
Se presenta como una ciudad modelo diseñada para superar la explotación
minera.
Analicé cómo FQM gobierna Kalumbila, examinando los objetivos de
planificación de la ciudad, el régimen de acceso a la infraestructura y los
servicios de la ciudad y la narrativa de los habitantes.
El análisis muestra que existe un fuerte lazo entre el trabajo y la vida privada
de los habitantes. Esto ha resultado en una falta de participación de los
residentes en la vida comunitaria. Además, compartir casa es una práctica
común, por eso muchos residentes ven la ciudad como un lugar de
alojamiento durante el trabajo. Las jerarquías de la empresa minera influyen
fuertemente en las estructuras sociales en Kalumbila resultando en la
creación de grupos territorialmente segregados y socialmente diferenciados.
Esta tesis contribuye a la comprensión de las transformaciones
socioespaciales inducidas por las explotaciones mineras a gran escala en el
Sur Global.Tesis de maestrí
Autoritäre Politik, wachsende Ungleichheit : Das südliche Afrika steht vor großen Herausforderungen
No full textMit dem Ende des Kalten Krieges 1989, der Unabhängigkeit Namibias 1990 und dem Sturz des Apartheidregimes in Südafrika 1994 begann für viele Länder des südlichen Afrikas eine Zeit relativer Stabilität und des politischen Pluralismus. Die Friedensdividende erfüllte jedoch nicht die in sie gesetzten Erwartungen. Der Demokratisierungsprozess der Southern-African-Development-Community-Staaten (SADC) verläuft unübersichtlich; eine Wende hin zu autoritären Tendenzen zeichnet sich bei einigen Mitgliedstaaten ab.</p
Political authoritarianism amidst growing inequalities in Southern Africa
No full textWith the end of the cold war, the independence of Namibia in 1990 and the fall of the apartheid regime in South Africa in 1994, the Southern African region entered an era of relative political stability and competitive multi-party politics. But the peace dividend proved unable to finance the hopes and promises, and more and more political analysts point to the “mixed bag” of democratisation processes. </p
There Used to Be Order : Life on the Copperbelt after the Privatisation of the Zambia Consolidated Copper Mines
No full textIn There Used to Be Order, Patience Mususa considers social change in the Copperbelt region of Zambia following the re-privatization of the large state mining conglomerate, the Zambia Consolidated Copper Mines (ZCCM), in the mid-1990s. As the copper mines were Zambia’s most important economic asset, the sale of ZCCM was considered a major loss to the country. More crucially, privatization marked the end of a way of life for mine employees and mining communities. Based on three years of ethnographic field research, this book examines life for those living in difficult economic circumstances, and considers the tension between the life they live and the nature of an “extractive area.” This account, unusual in its examination of middle-income decline in Africa, directs us to think of the Copperbelt not only as an extractive locale for copper whose activities are affected by the market, but also as a place where the residents’ engagement with the harsh reality of losing jobs and struggling to earn a living after the withdrawal of welfare is simultaneously changing both the material and social character of the place. Drawing on phenomenological approaches, the book develops a theoretical model of “trying,” which accounts for both Copperbelt residents’ aspirations and efforts.</p
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