Description
An examination of Africa's urban residents' experimentations living amidst crisis, this book seeks to explore and understand responses to diminishing state presence and social marginalization in distressed cities across the world.
About the Author
Stephen Marr is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Global Political Studies at Malmoe University, Sweden. Patience Mususa is Senior Researcher at the Nordic Africa Institute, Sweden. She has previously lectured at the University of Cape Town's department of Social Anthropology (South Africa), and at the Copperbelt University's School of Architecture (Zambia).
Reviews
This lively and important new collection pushes the study of the politics of urban development in African cities in to new terrain. A must-read for students of the African city. * Claire Mercer, London School of Economics, UK *
Book Information
ISBN 9781786999023
Author Stephen Marr
Format Paperback
Page Count 256
Imprint Zed Books Ltd
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC