Urban Life-Worlds in Motion: African Perspectives

by Hans Peter Hahn (Editor), Kristin Kastner (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783837620221
Publication date:	05/06/2012
Series:	Global Studies
Pages:	228
Product dimensions:	5.83(w) x 8.86(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

1
Content 5
Preface 7
Introduction 9
The Urban Poor, the Informal Sector and Environmental Health Policy in Nigeria 29
'I go chop your Dollar' 41
Women and Magic in Dakar 73
'They ehave as though hey ant to ring eaven own' 101
Movements into Emotions 131
The Transnational Choice 157
The Issue of the Diaspo in Ouagadougou 173
Haalpulaar Migrants' Home Connections 187
Epilogue 207
Abstracts and Information on Authors (in alphabetical order) 217