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African cities: Unveiling urban power, inequality, and dwellers’ unseen lives.

Power and Informality in Urban Africa

Ethnographic Perspectives

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    264 pages

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    24 March 2022

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Summary

Urban Africa is undergoing a transformation unlike anywhere else in the world, as unprecedented numbers of people migrate to rapidly expanding cities. But despite the growing body of work on urban Africa, the lives of these new city dwellers have received relatively little attention, particularly when it comes to crucial issues of power and inequality.

This interdisciplinary collection brings together contributions from urban studies, geography, and anthropology to provide new insight…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781786993441
ISBN-10:1786993449
Author:Laura Stark, Annika Björnsdotter Teppo
Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:Zed Books Ltd
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:264
Release Date:24 March 2022
Weight:420g
Dimensions:14mm x 156mm x 232mm
Series:Africa Now
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Critics Review

This excellent edited volume continues the tradition of Zed producing work on informality in cities on the African continent. A wide variety of scholars will find much to ponder in these pages. There is a particular focus on the intersections between power inequality and informality, but across a diversity of urban contexts. The ethnographic approaches of the authors bring these diverse contexts to life. * Garth A. Myers, Paul E. Raether Distinguished Professor of Urban International Studies, Trinity College, USA *

About The Author

Laura Stark

Laura Stark is Professor of ethnology at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. She was previously the director of the exchange network Living with Informal Settlements, Tackling Urban Poverty (LIFT UP), funded by the Finnish Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Annika Björnsdotter Teppo is Associate Professor at the Department of Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology at Uppsala University, Sweden. Dr. Teppo has previously headed the cluster for Urban Dynamics at the Nordic Africa Institute, Uppsala, Sweden. She has been granted a title of docent in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Helsinki, Finland.

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