Book Description
DIVA study of how colonial and postcolonial legacies manifest in African cities and African urban planning./div
Author : Abdou Maliqalim Simone
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 40,80 MB
Release : 2004-10-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780822334453
DIVA study of how colonial and postcolonial legacies manifest in African cities and African urban planning./div
Author : Hiba Bou Akar
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 17,95 MB
Release : 2018-09-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1503605612
“Through elegant ethnography and nuanced theorization . . . gives us a new way of thinking about violence, development, modernity, and ultimately, the city.” —Ananya Roy, University of California, Los Angeles Beirut is a city divided. Following the Green Line of the civil war, dividing the Christian east and the Muslim west, today hundreds of such lines dissect the city. For the residents of Beirut, urban planning could hold promise: a new spatial order could bring a peaceful future. But with unclear state structures and outsourced public processes, urban planning has instead become a contest between religious-political organizations and profit-seeking developers. Neighborhoods reproduce poverty, displacement, and urban violence. For the War Yet to Come examines urban planning in three neighborhoods of Beirut’s southeastern peripheries, revealing how these areas have been developed into frontiers of a continuing sectarian order. Hiba Bou Akar argues these neighborhoods are arranged, not in the expectation of a bright future, but according to the logic of “the war yet to come”: urban planning plays on fears and differences, rumors of war, and paramilitary strategies to organize everyday life. As she shows, war in times of peace is not fought with tanks, artillery, and rifles, but involves a more mundane territorial contest for land and apartment sales, zoning and planning regulations, and infrastructure projects. Winner of the Anthony Leeds Prize “Upends our conventional notions of center and periphery, of local and transnational, even of war and peace.” —AbdouMaliq Simone, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity “Fascinating, theoretically astute, and empirically rich.” —Asef Bayat, University of Illinois — Urbana-Champaign “An important contribution.” —Christine Mady, International Journal of Middle East Studies
Author : Rev. Jay Werman
Publisher : Academia Ministerial
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 49,63 MB
Release : 2024-07-25
Category : Bibles
ISBN :
In this book, we will explain every aspect related to the Antichrist, such as his rise and fall. The duration that has been set for his reign, the biblical order in which this will take place, and the nations that will be involved in his kingdom. We will detail all the key words associated with the marks listed in Revelation 13:17 and who will be affected when these marks are enforced by the government of the ten kingdoms. The biblical duration of the Great Tribulation period and its biblical context, such as the people who will be involved. Also, the explanation of the Scriptures that refer to this period in the book of Daniel, Revelation, Zechariah, Matthew, etc. The biblical scenario concerning the formation of the ten kingdoms mentioned in Daniel 7:24 and the land from which the Antichrist will come. A detailed explanation of each of the seals and their effects after they are opened. The three divine programs set forth in Scripture dealing with the Gentile nations, the Jewish nation, and the Body of Christ, and also the divine programs that will come into effect when the Great Tribulation period begins to unfold, such as the marking of the 144,000 Jews and those Gentiles who will be saved during this period. There are other details that we have explained throughout the development of each biblical subject that relate to the Antichrist and his reign. It's important to know all of these details because they are part of the Word of God, and a correct knowledge of each of these details will help us in teaching others who are ignorant of them. I'm confident that your biblical perspective will be strengthened by the explanation of the biblical scenario detailed in this book, that is, if you are interested in learning and studying the Scriptures.
Author : Paul Dobraszczyk
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 17,29 MB
Release : 2025-03-15
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1789141044
Brings together architecture, fiction, film, and visual art to reconnect the imaginary city with the real, proposing a future for humanity that is firmly grounded in the present and the diverse creative practices already at our fingertips. Though reaching ever further toward the skies, today’s cities are overshadowed by multiple threats: climate change, overpopulation, social division, and urban warfare all endanger our metropolitan way of life. The fundamental tool we use to make sense of these uncertain city futures is the imagination. Architects, artists, filmmakers, and fiction writers have long been inspired to imagine cities of the future, but their speculative visions tend to be seen very differently from scientific predictions: flights of fancy on the one hand versus practical reasoning on the other. In a digital age when the real and the fantastic coexist as near equals, it is especially important to know how these two forces are entangled, and how together they may help us best conceive of cities yet to come. Exploring a breathtaking range of imagined cities—submerged, floating, flying, vertical, underground, ruined, and salvaged—Future Cities teases out the links between speculation and reality, arguing that there is no clear separation between the two. In the Netherlands, prototype floating cities are already being built; Dubai’s recent skyscrapers resemble those of science-fiction cities of the past; while makeshift settlements built by the urban poor in the developing world are already like the dystopian cities of cyberpunk.
Author : Mateusz Laszczkowski
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 13,76 MB
Release : 2016-08-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1785332570
Astana, the capital city of the post-Soviet Kazakhstan, has often been admired for the design and planning of its futuristic cityscape. This anthropological study of the development of the city focuses on every-day practices, official ideologies and representations alongside the memories and dreams of the city’s longstanding residents and recent migrants. Critically examining a range of approaches to place and space in anthropology, geography and other disciplines, the book argues for an understanding of space as inextricably material-and-imaginary, and unceasingly dynamic – allowing for a plurality of incompatible pasts and futures materialized in spatial form.
Author : Abdou Maliqalim Simone
Publisher :
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 38,98 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0415993210
City Life from Jakarta to Dakar focuses on the politics incumbent to this process – an "anticipatory politics" – that encompasses a wide range of practices, calculations and economies. As such, the book is not a collection of case studies on a specific theme, not a review of developmental problems, nor does it marshal the focal cities as evidence of particular urban trends. Rather, it examines how possibilities, perhaps inherent in these cities all along, are materialized through the everyday projects of residents situated in the city and the larger world in very different ways.
Author : Michael E. Payton MA
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 13,89 MB
Release : 2023-09-29
Category : Religion
ISBN :
Michael Payton, who has brought us three top-selling motivational books, “Just for Thought-Articles of Motivation,” “Time to Think-Meditation and Reflection,” and “Hope: The Strongest Motivation,” now takes us into the world of Christian gospel music and the motivational impact it has had on Christianity throughout the years. Gospel music, whether it be Southern Baptist, country or rock, all have inspired and motivated people around the world to seek Christianity as the rule and guide of their lives. With “Gospel Music: Motivation Through Song,” Michael Payton presents 50 Christian songs, combining both traditional and modern-day, giving his interpretation of how each song inspires and motivates the individual to accept Jesus Christ as personal Lord and Savior. At the end of each chapter the reader will have the opportunity to record his/her own personal thoughts on what the song means to them. “Gospel Music: Motivation Through Song,” showcases the great motivational tool Christian music has been and still is in leading all of us to Christ.
Author : Yael Allweil
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 483 pages
File Size : 12,24 MB
Release : 2016-09-19
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1315395967
On 29 March 2016 the New York based online journal, Realty Today reported ‘Israel is facing a housing crisis with ...[the] home inventory lacking 100,000 apartments... House prices, which have more than doubled in less than a decade, resulted in a mass protest back in 2011’. As Yael Allweil reveals in her fascinating book, housing has played a pivotal role in the history of nationalism and nation building in Israel-Palestine. She adopts the concept of ‘homeland’ to highlight how land and housing are central to both Zionism and Palestinian nationalism, and how the history of Zionist and Palestinian national housing have been inseparably intertwined from the introduction of the Ottoman Land Code in 1858 to the present day. Following the Introduction, Part I, ‘Historiographies of Land Reform and Nationalism’, discusses the formation of nationalism as the direct result of the Ottoman land code of 1858. Part II, ‘Housing as Proto-Nationalism’ focuses on housing as the means to claim rights over the homeland. Part III, ‘Housing and Nation-Building in the Age of State Sovereignty’, explores the effects of statehood on national housing across several strata of Israeli society. The Afterword discusses housing as the quintessential object of agonistic conflict in Israel-Palestine, around which the Israeli polity is formed and reformed.
Author : Emily Callaci
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 39,10 MB
Release : 2017-10-24
Category : History
ISBN : 0822372320
In Street Archives and City Life Emily Callaci maps a new terrain of political and cultural production in mid- to late twentieth-century Tanzanian urban landscapes. While the postcolonial Tanzanian ruling party (TANU) adopted a policy of rural socialism known as Ujamaa between 1967 and 1985, an influx of youth migrants to the city of Dar es Salaam generated innovative forms of urbanism through the production and circulation of what Callaci calls street archives. These urban intellectuals neither supported nor contested the ruling party's anti-city philosophy; rather, they navigated the complexities of inhabiting unplanned African cities during economic crisis and social transformation through various forms of popular texts that included women's Christian advice literature, newspaper columns, self-published pulp fiction novellas, and song lyrics. Through these textual networks, Callaci shows how youth migrants and urban intellectuals in Dar es Salaam fashioned a collective ethos of postcolonial African citizenship. This spirit ushered in a revolution rooted in the city and its networks—an urban revolution that arose in spite of the nation-state's pro-rural ideology.
Author : Ananya Roy
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 23,9 MB
Release : 2015-11-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0820348449
Territories of Poverty challenges the conventional North-South geographies through which poverty scholarship is organized. Staging theoretical interventions that traverse social histories of the American welfare state and critical ethnographies of international development regimes, these essays confront how poverty is constituted as a problem. In the process, the book analyzes bureaucracies of poverty, poor people’s movements, and global networks of poverty expertise, as well as more intimate modes of poverty action such as volunteerism. From post-Katrina New Orleans to Korean church missions in Africa, this book is fundamentally concerned with how poverty is territorialized. In contrast to studies concerned with locations of poverty, Territories of Poverty engages with spatial technologies of power, be they community development and counterinsurgency during the American 1960s or the unceasing anticipation of war in Beirut. Within this territorial matrix, contributors uncover dissent, rupture, and mobilization. This book helps us understand the regulation of poverty—whether by globally circulating models of fast policy or vast webs of mobile money or philanthrocapitalist foundations—as multiple terrains of struggle for justice and social transformation.