The Post-Global City
The University of Michigan Press (Verlag)
978-0-472-05782-5 (ISBN)
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Katrien Pype is Associate Professor in the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at KU Leuven University and Honorary Research Fellow at the Department of African Studies and Anthropology at the University of Birmingham. Omolade Adunbi is Professor of Anthropology and Afroamerican and African Studies and the Director of the African Studies Center at the University of Michigan. Michael M. J. Fischer is Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Anthropology and Science and Technology Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Biographies
Illustrations
Preface and Acknowledgments
Introduction: Post-Global City Formations: Technology and Africa’s Urban Futures
Omolade Adunbi, Katrien Pype, and Michael M.J. Fischer
Chapter 1: The Post-Global City. South-South Geographies and Political Affects in Kinshasa’s Emerging Tech Scene
Katrien Pype
Chapter 2: Technologies of Dream Life and the Life of Dreams in Afrodystopia
Joseph Tonda, translated by Katrien Pype
Chapter 3. Inga as Enclave: the (dis)comfort of being serious men
Barbara Carbon
Chapter 4: Enchanting Urban Futures through Geothermal Explorations in Nakuru,
Kenya
Nick Rahier
Chapter 5: Dreaming about X-rays in Kikwit: Visibility, medical technology, and fracture care in an intermediate Congolese city
Trisha Phippard
Chapter 6: The « bend-skin », a connector in and co-constructor of Mbouda. Or, how post-global flows enable urban mobility
Vivien M. Meli, translated by Victoria Bernal and Katrien Pype
Chapter 7 Techni-city and co-citizenship: Campus connectivity in Tanzania
Koen Stroeken and Mohamed Ghasia
Chapter 8: Digital technology and urban entrepreneurship: gendered tactics of online entrepreneurship in and from pre-war Khartoum
Griet Steel
Chapter 9. The Oil Cities: Urbanity, Engineers, and Innovators in the Construction of Refineries in Nigeria
Omolade Adunbi
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 3.3.2026 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | African Perspectives |
| Zusatzinfo | 11 illustrations, 1 table |
| Verlagsort | Ann Arbor |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-472-05782-0 / 0472057820 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-472-05782-5 / 9780472057825 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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