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Africa in Urban History

Africa in Urban History

Hardcover

Series: Elements in Global Urban History

African HistoryGeneral World History

ISBN10: 1009500724
ISBN13: 9781009500722
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Jan 30 2025
Pages: 90
Weight: 0.64
Height: 0.25 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
This Element in Global Urban History seeks to promote understanding of the urban history of Africa. It does so by undertaking four main tasks. Firstly, it employs race, ethnicity, class, and conflict theory as conceptual frameworks to analyze the spatial structures, social, and political-economic dynamics of African cities from global, comparative, and transnational perspectives. Secondly, it proposes a new typology of the continent's cities. Thirdly, it identifies and draws into focus an important but oft-ignored part of Africa's urban history, namely Indigenous cities. It focuses more intensely on the few that still exist to date. Fourthly, it employs conflict, functional, and symbolic interactionist theories as well as elements of the race ideology to explain the articulation of racism, ethnicity, and classism in the continent's urban space. This is done mainly but not exclusively from historical perspectives.

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