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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: AbdouMaliq SimonePublisher: Duke University Press Imprint: Duke University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 0.431kg ISBN: 9780822334453ISBN 10: 0822334453 Pages: 312 Publication Date: 07 October 2004 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Awaiting stock  The supplier is currently out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out for you. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction: Remaking African Cities 1 1. The Informal: The Projet de Ville in Pikine, Senegal 21 2. The Invisible: Winterveld, South Africa 63 3. The Spectral: Assembling Douala, Cameroon 92 4. Movement: The Zawiyyah as the City 118 5. Reconciling Engagement and Belonging: Some Matters of History 136 6. The Production and Management of Urban Resources 178 7. Cities and Change 213 Notes 245 References 269 Index 291ReviewsFor the City Yet to Come is about much more than the planning and politics of cities in Africa. AbdouMaliq Simone lays out a challenging, intellectually wide-ranging and yet very grounded consideration of present and possible dispensations of social life in Africa, maintaining a delicate balance between attention to the improvisational and creative within African urban spaces and critique of the sufferings and injustices of city life. -Timothy Burke, author of Lifebuoy Men, Lux Women: Commodification, Consumption, and Cleanliness in Modern Zimbabwe This is by far the best book about African cities as well as a theoretically provocative experiment in urban criticism. Using a combination of both large-scale and focused analyses, Abdoumaliq Simone brings to light the nuances, shades, and imaginative universes of contemporary African urban life that have eluded most analysts. In the process, he profoundly renews our understanding of the politics of everyday life. -Achille Mbembe, author of On the Postcolony This is by far the best book about African cities as well as a theoretically provocative experiment in urban criticism. Using a combination of both large-scale and focused analyses, Abdoumaliq Simone brings to light the nuances, shades, and imaginative universes of contemporary African urban life that have eluded most analysts. In the process, he profoundly renews our understanding of the politics of everyday life. --Achille Mbembe, author of On the Postcolony For the City Yet to Come is about much more than the planning and politics of cities in Africa. AbdouMaliq Simone lays out a challenging, intellectually wide-ranging and yet very grounded consideration of present and possible dispensations of social life in Africa, maintaining a delicate balance between attention to the improvisational and creative within African urban spaces and critique of the sufferings and injustices of city life. --Timothy Burke, author of Lifebuoy Men, Lux Women: Commodification, Consumption, and Cleanliness in Modern Zimbabwe Author InformationAbdouMaliq Simone is Assistant Director of the Graduate Program in International Affairs at New School University. He is the author of In Whose Image? Political Islam and Urban Practices in Sudan and, with David Hecht, Invisible Governance: The Art of African Micropolitics. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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