ISBN:
978-1-78938-024-8 (ePDF)
,
978-1-78938-023 (ePUB)
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (vi, 172 Seiten)
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Illustrationen
Edition:
African luxury 2019.pdf
Keywords:
Afrika, Subsahara Afrika
;
Luxusgüter
;
Mode
;
Konsum
;
Reichtum
;
Materielle Kultur
;
Ästhetik
;
Politik
;
Kulturanthropologie
Abstract:
Moving far beyond predominant views of Africa as a place to be 'saved', and even more recent celebratory formulations of it as 'rising', African Luxury: Aesthetics and Politics highlights and critically interrogates the visual and material cultures of lavish and luxurious consumption already present on the continent. Methodologically, conceptually and analytically, the collection dismantles taken-for-granted ideas that the West is the source and focus of high-end and hyper-desirable material cultures. It explores what the culture of consumption means in Africa in both historical and contemporary contexts, studying diverse luxury phenomena including fashion advertising, reality television, retail, gendered consumption and gardening to re-centre the discussion on existing contemporary luxury cultures across the continent. (Umschlagtext)
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction: The politics and aesthetics of luxury in Africa by Simidele Dosekun and Mehita Iqani -- Section One: Africa Risen -- Chapter 1: The last luxury frontier? how global consulting firms discursively construct the African market by Mehita Iqani -- Chapter 2: African utopianism: the invention of Africa in Diesel's The Daily African - a retrogressive reading by Hlonipha Mokoena -- Chapter 3: For love or money? romance, luxury and class distinction on Mzansi Magic's Date My Family by Alexia Smit -- Section Two: Re/Crafting African Style -- Chapter 4: From African print to global luxury: Dutch wax cloth rebranding and the politics of high-value by M. Amah Edoh -- Chapter 5: The playful and privileged Africanicity of luxury: @AlaraLagos by Simidele Dosekun -- Chapter 6: Fields of Marigold: makers and wearers of African luxury beaded necklaces by Pamila Gupta -- Section Three: Ambiguous Luxury Spaces -- Chapter 7: Luminance and the moralization of black women's luxury consumption in South Africa by Ndapwa Alweendo and Simidele Dosekun -- Chapter 8: The politics of repair: Talatona and luxury urbanism in Luanda, Angola by Claudia Gastrow -- Chapter 9: Welcome to the jungle: tropical modernism, decadence, gardening in Africa by Jonathan Cane -- Biographies
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