Anatomy of exclusion in an African city : on ambivalence

Githua, B.

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dc.contributor.author	Githua, B.
dc.contributor.editor	Bakker, Karel A.
dc.contributor.other	African Perspectives Conference Proceedings
dc.coverage.spatial	Africa
dc.coverage.spatial	Kenya
dc.date.accessioned	2017-04-19T08:22:51Z
dc.date.available	2017-04-19T08:22:51Z
dc.date.created	2017
dc.date.issued	2010
dc.description.abstract	This paper draws on psychoanalytic concepts of incipient boundary formation to theorize the ambivalent nature of exclusionary socio-political practices in urban sub Saharan Africa, applying this to an analysis of the Mũngĩkĩ organization in Kenya. Using the notion of a 'return to nature', it concludes that the very ambivalence of exclusionary practices produces an inversion of power relations, as the excluded instrumentalise the very identity for which they have been excluded.	en_ZA
dc.description.sponsorship	Department of Culture, Delegation of the Flemish Government in South Africa, Embassy of Belgium	en_ZA
dc.description.uri	https://africanperspectivesconference.wordpress.com/
dc.format.extent	8 pages	en_ZA
dc.format.medium	PDF	en_ZA
dc.identifier.citation	Githua, B 2010, 'Anatomy of exclusion in an African city : on ambivalence', African Perspectives Conference Proceedings, 25-28 September 2009.	en_ZA
dc.identifier.isbn	978-0-620-49356-7
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/2263/59959
dc.language.iso	en	en_ZA
dc.publisher	Department of Architecture, University of Pretoria	en_ZA
dc.rights	Department of Architecture, University of Pretoria © 2010	en_ZA
dc.subject	Architecture	en_ZA
dc.subject	Social exclusion	en_ZA
dc.subject	Ambivalence	en_ZA
dc.subject	Object relations	en_ZA
dc.subject	Mũngĩkĩ	en_ZA
dc.subject.lcsh	Architecture--Africa
dc.title	Anatomy of exclusion in an African city : on ambivalence	en_ZA
dc.type	Conference paper	en_ZA