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Politics and the urban frontier : transformation and divergence in late urbanizing East Africa /

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This publication offers the first full-length comparative analysis of urban development trajectories in Eastern Africa and the political dynamics that underpin them. It offers a multi-scalar, historically-grounded, and interdisciplinary analysis of the urban transformations unfolding in the world�...

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Main Author: Goodfellow, Tom (Author)
Corporate Author: Oxford University Press
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2022]
Series:Critical frontiers of theory, research, and policy in international development studies.
Subjects:
Urbanization > Africa, East.
Urbanization > Political aspects > Africa, East.
Africa, East > Politics and government.
Politics and government
Urbanization
Urbanization > Political aspects
Africa, East
Society & culture: general.
Society.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Titlepage
  • Copyright
  • Acknowledgements
  • Contents
  • List of Figures
  • Map of East Africa
  • Impressions
  • Part I Urban Tectonics
  • 1 East Africa and the politics of late urbanization
  • Introduction
  • 1.1 The peripheral frontier
  • 1.2 Late urbanization
  • 1.3 Cities in a world of regions
  • 1.4 Scaling the politics of urban development
  • 1.5 Structure of the argument
  • 1.6 Organization of the book
  • 2 Transformation and divergence: Explaining contemporary urban development trajectories
  • Introduction
  • 2.1 Causal force and urban change
  • 2.2 The distribution of associational power
  • 2.3 The pursuit of social legitimacy
  • 2.4 Modalities of political informality
  • 2.5 Legacies and practices of infrastructural reach
  • 2.6 A level-abstracted view of the politics of urban transformation
  • Part II Urban Foundations
  • 3 The making of urban territory
  • Introduction
  • 3.1 Land, territory, and property in the making of urban East Africa
  • 3.2 Precolonial dynamics and the emergence of land regimes
  • 3.3 The colonial encounter and urban territorialization
  • 3.4 Independence and revolution
  • 3.5 Land and urban territory under the new rebel statesmen
  • 3.6 Conclusions: Land regimes, urban territory, and violent transitions
  • 4 The making of urban economies
  • Introduction
  • 4.1 The early foundations of a regional trading economy
  • 4.2 Limits to economic transformation in the imperial period
  • 4.3 From high hopes to crisis
  • 4.4 East Africa's development labs
  • 4.5 Conclusions: Towards a contemporary urban political economy
  • Part III Urban Currents
  • 5 New urban visions and the infrastructure boom
  • Introduction
  • 5.1 The politics of urban neglect
  • 5.2 Growing urban appetites
  • 5.3 The African `infrastructure gap' as a twenty-first-century priority
  • 5.4 China and the Ethiopian urban `renaissance': The light railway in Addis Ababa
  • 5.5 Kigali's tourist infrastructures of regional ambition
  • 5.6 The `world's most expensive road': The Kampala-Entebbe Expressway
  • 5.7 The comparative politics of urban mega-infrastructure
  • 6 Urban propertyscapes
  • Introduction
  • 6.1 Real estate out of the ashes
  • 6.2 East African propertyscapes: Landlords, bubbles, and skeletons
  • 6.3 The politics of mass housing
  • 6.4 Reading the politics of urban propertyscapes
  • 7 Working the city: Vendors, ""2018untouchables""2019, and street fugitives
  • Introduction
  • 7.1 Informality and urban life
  • 7.2 The marketplace: Urban politics etched in economic space
  • 7.3 The street economy: Forbearance, hunting, and hustle
  • 7.4 Conclusions
  • 8 The politics of noise and silence: Negotiation, mobilization, refusal
  • Introduction
  • 8.1 The political city in East Africa
  • 8.2 The evolution of urban political cultures
  • 8.3 Kampala: Normalizing noise
  • 8.4 Kigali: Silence and its limits