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The aesthetics of belonging : indigenous urbanism and city building in oil-boom Luanda /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gastrow, Claudia (Author)
Corporate Author: JSTOR (Organization)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2024]
Subjects:
City planning > Angola > Luanda (Luanda)
Slums > Angola > Luanda (Luanda) > History > 21st century.
City dwellers > Political activity > Angola > Luanda (Luanda)
Vernacular architecture > Political aspects > Angola > Luanda (Luanda)
Aesthetics > Political aspects.
Indigenous peoples > Material culture > Political aspects.
Luanda (Luanda, Angola) > Politics and government > 21st century.
Angola > History > Civil War, 1975-2002 > Influence.
Angola > Histoire > 1975-2002 (Guerre civile) > Influence.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Building Luanda
  • Making the "new Luanda": national reconstruction and phantasmagorias of care
  • Musseque city: Indigenous urbanism in provisional spaces
  • Beyond the law: demolition, belonging, and the moral economy of materiality
  • The aesthesis of class: infrastructure and the politics of comfort
  • Aesthetic dissent: negotiating worlding from an African metropolis
  • Beyond "cut and paste" urbanism.