No Place Like Home in a New City (eBook)

Anti-Urbanism and Life in Nairobi

Bettina Ng'weno (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2025
238 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-42122-6 (ISBN)

Infos

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Nairobi, known as the Green City in the Sun, has taken shape through anti-urban ideologies that insist that the city cannot be home for most residents. Based on decades of experience in rapidly changing Nairobi, No Place Like Home in a New City traverses rivers, cemeteries, parks, railways, housing estates, roads, and dancehalls to explore how policies of anti-urbanism manifest across time and space, shaping how people live in Nairobi. With deeply personal insights, Bettina Ng’weno highlights how people contest anti-urbanism through their insistence on building life in the city, even in the current dynamic of ubiquitous demolition and reconstruction. Through quotidian practices and creative resistance, they imagine alternatives to displacement, create belonging, and build new urban futures.

Inhalt

Contents
 
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
 
Introduction: Dawn
1. The Rain at Home
2. Growing Old in a New City
3. One Hundred Years of Segregation
4. Dancing to the Sound of Nairobi
5. Remnant of a Green City in the Sun
6. Remains of an Unrealized Yesterday
7. Place of Sweet Water
8. No Place Like Home
Epilogue: Civil Twilight
 
Notes
Bibliography
General Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 9.9.2025
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Schlagworte: African Studies • Anthropology • Citizen • Community • Development • ethnography • Identity • Kenya • Local studies • Migrant • Policy • resistance
• ISBN-10: 0-520-42122-1 / 0520421221
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-42122-6 / 9780520421226