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Making an African City
Technopolitics and the Infrastructure of Everyday Life in Colonial Accra
Taschenbuch von Jennifer Hart
Sprache: Englisch

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In Making an African City, Jennifer Hart traces the way that British colonial officials, Accra Town Council members, and a diverse group of technocrats used regulation to define what an "acceptable" city looked like. Unlike cities elsewhere on the continent, Accra had a long history of urbanism that predated British colonial presence. By criminalizing some activities and privileging others, colonial officials sought to marginalize indigenous practices of Accra residents and shape the development of a new, "modern" city. Hart argues, however, that residents regularly pushed back, protesting regulations, refusing to participate in newly developed systems, reappropriating infrastructure, demanding rights to city services, and asserting their own informal vision for the future of the city. While urban plans and regulations ultimately failed to substantively remake the city, their effects were and are still felt by urban residents, who are often subject to but not served by urban infrastructure. Making an African City explores how the informalization of Accra's development was a historical process, not a natural and self-evident phenomenon, which connects the history of the city with the history of urban development and the growth of technocracy around the world.
In Making an African City, Jennifer Hart traces the way that British colonial officials, Accra Town Council members, and a diverse group of technocrats used regulation to define what an "acceptable" city looked like. Unlike cities elsewhere on the continent, Accra had a long history of urbanism that predated British colonial presence. By criminalizing some activities and privileging others, colonial officials sought to marginalize indigenous practices of Accra residents and shape the development of a new, "modern" city. Hart argues, however, that residents regularly pushed back, protesting regulations, refusing to participate in newly developed systems, reappropriating infrastructure, demanding rights to city services, and asserting their own informal vision for the future of the city. While urban plans and regulations ultimately failed to substantively remake the city, their effects were and are still felt by urban residents, who are often subject to but not served by urban infrastructure. Making an African City explores how the informalization of Accra's development was a historical process, not a natural and self-evident phenomenon, which connects the history of the city with the history of urban development and the growth of technocracy around the world.
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Jennifer Hart
Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. "Fruity" Smells, City Streets, and the Politics of Sanitation

2. "Health is the First Wealth"

3. African Trade and Expatriate Enterprise in the Colonial City

4. Of Pirate Drivers and Honking Horns

5. Building Homes in the "New Accra"

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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Erscheinungsjahr: 2024
Genre: Geschichte, Importe
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780253069337
ISBN-10: 0253069335
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Hart, Jennifer
Hersteller: Indiana University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 233 x 155 x 18 mm
Von/Mit: Jennifer Hart
Erscheinungsdatum: 05.03.2024
Gewicht: 0,49 kg
Artikel-ID: 127332656
Über den Autor
Jennifer Hart
Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. "Fruity" Smells, City Streets, and the Politics of Sanitation

2. "Health is the First Wealth"

3. African Trade and Expatriate Enterprise in the Colonial City

4. Of Pirate Drivers and Honking Horns

5. Building Homes in the "New Accra"

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2024
Genre: Geschichte, Importe
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780253069337
ISBN-10: 0253069335
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Hart, Jennifer
Hersteller: Indiana University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 233 x 155 x 18 mm
Von/Mit: Jennifer Hart
Erscheinungsdatum: 05.03.2024
Gewicht: 0,49 kg
Artikel-ID: 127332656
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