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Age of Concrete
Housing and the Shape of Aspiration in the Capital of Mozambique
«“Morton’s argument, delivered with passion and power, gives life to a nuanced, deeply personal understanding of how ordinary residents of disadvantaged urban communities not only make their neighborhoods—they reframe the everyday political order. The stories he tells resonate across the continent.”»
Age of Concrete is about people building homes on tenuous ground in the outer neighborhoods of Maputo, Mozambique, places thought of simply as slums. But up close, they are an archive: houses of reeds, wood, zinc, and concrete embodying the ambitions of people who built their own largest investment and greatest bequest to the future. Les mer
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Age of Concrete is about people building homes on tenuous ground in the outer neighborhoods of Maputo, Mozambique, places thought of simply as slums. But up close, they are an archive: houses of reeds, wood, zinc, and concrete embodying the ambitions of people who built their own largest investment and greatest bequest to the future.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Ohio University Press
- Innbinding
- Innbundet
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9780821423677
- Utgivelsesår
- 2019
- Format
- 25 x 18 cm
- Priser
- Winner of African Studies Association Bethwell A. Ogot Prize 2020. Short-listed for Canadian Historical Association/Societe historique du Canada Wallace K. Ferguson Prize 2021.
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«“Morton’s argument, delivered with passion and power, gives life to a nuanced, deeply personal understanding of how ordinary residents of disadvantaged urban communities not only make their neighborhoods—they reframe the everyday political order. The stories he tells resonate across the continent.”»
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