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urn:uuid:2dc78bdc-de63-40fd-b84e-5f7fb03d9795 03 01 01 urn:uuid:2dc78bdc-de63-40fd-b84e-5f7fb03d9795 15 9783110601183 06 10.1515/9783110601183 00 EB E107 10 Creative Commons License 02 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ 01 01 The Politics of Housing in (Post-)Colonial Africa Accommodating Workers & Urban Residents 1 B01 21 0000-0002-9437-3769 Kirsten Rüther 2 B01 Martina Barker-Ciganikova 3 B01 21 0000-0002-6953-8445 Daniela Waldburger 4 B01 Carl-Philipp Bodenstein 01 eng 00 230 03 10 SOC008010 03 00 <p>Housing matters, no matter when or where. This volume of collected essays on housing in colonial and postcolonial Africa seeks to elaborate how and why housing is much more than an everyday practice. The politics of housing unfold in disparate dimensions of time, space and agency. Depending on context, they acquire diverse, often ambivalent, meanings. Housing can be a promise, an unfulfilled dream, a tool of self- and class-assertion, a negotiation process, or a means to achieve other ends. This volume analyzes housing in its multifacetedness, be it a lens to offer insights into complex processes that shape societies; be it a tool of empire to exercise control over private relations of inhabitants; or be it a means to create good, obedient and productive citizens. Contributions to this volume range from the field of history, to architecture and urban planning, African studies, linguistics, and literature. The individual case studies home in on specific aspects and dimensions of housing and seek to bring them into dialogue with each other. By doing so, the volume aims to add to the debate on studying urban practices and their significance for current social change.</p> 04 00 List of illustrations 1. Introduction | Martina Barker-Ciganikova 2.The Rule of Rent: The State, Employers and the Becoming Urban Dweller in Northern Rhodesia Acting Across a Societal Field of Force, c. 1948–1962 | Kirsten Rüther 3. Ruashi, a Pessac in Congo? On the Design, Inhabitation, and Transformation of a 1950s Neighborhood in Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of the Congo | Sofie Boonen and Johan Lagae 4. At Home with Nairobi’s Working Poor: Reading Meja Mwangi’s Urban Novels | Martina Kopf 5. La problématique de l’habitat dans la ville de Lubumbashi (Elisabethville), province du Katanga, 1910–1960 | Donatien Dibwe dia Mwembu 6. House, Home, Health and Hygiene – Social Engineering of Workers in Elisabethville/ Lubumbashi (1940s to 1960s) Through the Lens of Language Usage | Daniela Waldburger 7. Spatio-physical Power and Social Control Strategies of the Colonial State in Africa: The Case of CDC Workers’ Camps in Cameroon | Ambe Njoh and Liora Bigon 8. Concrete Does not Cry: Interdisciplinary Reflections on and Beyond Housing | Nicholas Sungura and Marlene Wagner in discussion with Martina Barker-Ciganikova and Kirsten Rüther Contributors Index 20 00 Open Access African Minds 01 African Minds Cape Town, South Africa 04 01 20210518 13 15 9783110598278 09 African Minds 29 Publisher's website: download the title https://books.africanminds.co.za/10.1515/9783110601183.pdf 99 01 09 African Minds 02 Publisher's website: web shop https://www.africanminds.co.za/politics-of-housing-in-postcolonial-africa/ 99 01