Recentering the city : an anthropology of secondary cities in Africa

dc.contributor.authorDe Boeck, F.
dc.contributor.authorCassiman, A
dc.contributor.authorVan Wolputte, S.
dc.contributor.editorBakker, Karel A.
dc.contributor.otherAfrican Perspectives Conference Proceedings
dc.coverage.spatialAfrica
dc.date.accessioned2017-04-19T07:32:25Z
dc.date.available2017-04-19T07:32:25Z
dc.date.created2017
dc.date.issued2010
dc.description.abstractThis text summarises an ongoing research project about small cities which are usually not included in the research agenda on global cities. We aim at bridging between research focused on global or world cities and that on smaller or secondary cities in Africa. Arguing against the view of smaller Third World cities as mere towns, as “not yet cities”, and therefore irrelevant to world city theorizing, this project intends to develop an alternative analytical approach to think differently about these small cities in the South. Basing ourselves on ongoing ethnographic research in Ghana, Congo and Namibia, we argue that these secondary cities are fully urban in that they generate networks and practices that extend far beyond the local limits of these cities and their immediate rural hinterland, and that they often manage to do so in more successful ways than their larger counterparts. At the same time these secondary cities are sites in which new and different forms of urban life and imagination are being shaped, offering the perspective of an alternative African urban future.en_ZA
dc.description.sponsorshipDepartment of Culture, Delegation of the Flemish Government in South Africa, Embassy of Belgiumen_ZA
dc.description.urihttps://africanperspectivesconference.wordpress.com/
dc.format.extent10 pagesen_ZA
dc.format.mediumPDFen_ZA
dc.identifier.citationDe Boeck, F, Ann Cassiman, A & Van Wolputte, S 2010, 'Recentering the city : an anthropology of secondary cities in Africa', African Perspectives Conference Proceedings, 25-28 September 2009.en_ZA
dc.identifier.isbn978-0-620-49356-7
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/59948
dc.language.isoenen_ZA
dc.publisherDepartment of Architecture, University of Pretoriaen_ZA
dc.rightsDepartment of Architecture, University of Pretoria © 2010en_ZA
dc.subjectArchitectureen_ZA
dc.subjectSecondary cities
dc.subjectNetworks
dc.subjectUrban anthropology
dc.subject.lcshArchitecture--Africa
dc.titleRecentering the city : an anthropology of secondary cities in Africaen_ZA
dc.typeConference paperen_ZA

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