Africa and Urban Anthropology Theoretical and Methodological Contributions from Contemporary Fieldwork

• Main Authors: Pellow, Deborah, Scheld, Suzanne
• Format: eBook Book
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Routledge 2023; Taylor & Francis; Taylor and Francis
• Edition: 1
• Series: Routledge Studies in Anthropology
• Subjects: Anthropology; Artisanal Gold Miners; Colonial Administration; Cultural & Social; Diaspora Investors; Diaspora Returnees; Diaspora Somalis; Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning; Extra-state Violence; Female Genital Cutting; Geography; Human geography; Interdisciplinary studies; International Central Gospel Church; Ivory Coast; Land use, Urban > Africa; Liberation Wars; Linguistic Landscape; NGO Worker; Northern Ghanaians; Pentecostal Churches; Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects; Regional / International studies; Regional Studies; RLI; Social and cultural anthropology; Social groups, communities and identities; Social Science; Social Support Activities; Social Support Initiatives; Society and culture: general; Society and Social Sciences; Sociology; Sociology and anthropology; South Sudan; South Sudanese; Stone Town; Urban Africa; Urban Anthropology; Urban communities; Urbanization > Africa; Van Dijk 2010a; Young Men; Zanzibar Stone Town; Zanzibar Stone Town; Juba; Ivory Coast; Stone Town; South Sudanese; Extra-state Violence; RLI; Northern Ghanaians; Pentecostal Churches; Language; Urban Anthropology; Young Men; African Urban; Urban Ethnography; Liberation Wars; Colonial Administration; Diaspora Somalis; South Sudan; International Central Gospel Church; Van Dijk 2010a; Diaspora Returnees; Artisanal Gold Miners; Urban Africa; Female Genital Cutting; NGO Worker; Linguistic Landscape; Kafanchan; Diaspora Investors; Modernity; Social Support Initiatives; Social Support Activities; Precarious Citizenship
• DOI: 10.4324/9781003003533
• ISBN: 9781032211947; 9780367431716; 1032211946; 0367431718; 9781000684223; 9781000684278; 9781003003533; 100068427X; 1000684229; 1003003532

This volume offers valuable anthropological insight into urban Africa, covering a range of cities across a continent that has become one of the fastest urbanizing geographic areas of the globe. Consideration is given to the structures, social formations, and rhythms that constitute the definition of an African city, town, or urban space, and to current concepts for thinking about African cities in the twenty-first century. The contributors examine topics including notions of belonging, the effects of globalization, colonialism, and transnationalism on African urban life, the cultural dimensions of infrastructure and public resources, mobility, labor issues, spatial organization, language, and popular culture trends, among other themes. The book reflects on how the ethnography of urban Africa fits within anthropology and urban studies, and on new theoretical concepts and methodologies that can be created through anthropological fieldwork in African cities. It will be of particular interest to scholars and students from anthropology, African studies and urban studies, as well as sociology and geography.