Urban Life-Worlds in Motion: African Perspectives

Published by transcript Verlag 2012

Urban Life-Worlds in Motion

African Perspectives

Edited by: Hans Peter Hahn and Kristin Kastner

In the series Global Studies

https://doi.org/10.1515/transcript.9783839420225

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About this book

Urban agglomerations host the most vital and creative societies. This applies particularly to Africa, where cities have the highest growth rates world-wide and where the urban population is younger than anywhere else. Urban life-worlds are the basis for the development of new lifestyles and new cultural phenomena. Based on empirical ethnographic research, this book presents case studies that enhance our understanding of the dynamics of urbanity in Africa and beyond - by envisioning cities as crossroads where cultures, biographies and networks meet.

Author / Editor information

Hans Peter Hahn is professor of anthropology at Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main. His research interests include material culture and globalisation. In addition to international museum cooperation projects, he has conducted ethnographic research on migration in West Africa, consumer goods and mobile phones.
Kristin Kastner (Dr. phil.) is research assistant at the Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main (Germany). She has recently completed her doctoral thesis on Nigerian migrants on their way to Europe. Her research interests include the anthropology of the body, anthropology of borders, mobility and migration.

Reviews

Reviewed in:

UniReport, 4 (2012)
Diplomatisches Magazin, 2 (2013)

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
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Preface Hans Peter Hahn and Kristin Kastner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	7
Introduction Urban Life-Worlds in Motion Hans Peter Hahn Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	9
The Urban Poor, the Informal Sector and Environmental Health Policy in Nigeria Geoffrey I. Nwaka Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	29
‘I go chop your Dollar’ Scamming Practices and Notions of Morality among Youth in Bamenda, Cameroon Bettina Frei Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	41
Women and Magic in Dakar Rural Immigrants Coping with Urban Uncertainties Amber Gemmeke Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	73
‘They ehave as though hey ant to ring eaven own’ Some Narratives on the Visibility of Cameroonian Migrant Youths in Cameroon Urban Space Primus M. Tazanu Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	101
Movements into Emotions Kinetic Tactics, Commotion and Conviviality among Traffic Vendors in Accra Gabriel Klaeger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	131
The Transnational Choice Young Tuareg Traders between Niger and Nigeria Tilman Musch Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	157
The Issue of the Diaspo in Ouagadougou Ludovic Kibora Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	173
Haalpulaar Migrants’ Home Connections Travel and Communication Circuits Abdoulaye Kane Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	187
Epilogue Images and Spaces Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	207
Abstracts and Information on Authors (in alphabetical order) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	217

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Edition: 1. Aufl.
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 228
Keywords: African Studies; Mobility; Transnationalism; Space; Urban Anthropology; Globalization; Urbanity; Ethnology; Africa

eBook

Published: March 27, 2014
ISBN: 9783839420225