Amoo-Adare Spatial Literacy

Contemporary Asante Women’s Place-making
2013
ISBN: 978-1-137-28107-4
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 173 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Gender and Cultural Studies in Africa and the Diaspora

This book makes the case for an urgent praxis of critical spatial literacy for African women. It provides a critical analysis of how Asante women negotiate and understand the politics of contemporary space in Accra and beyond and the effect it has on their lives, demonstrating how they critically 'read that world.'

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Amoo-Adare, E.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Critical Spatial Literacy is Urgent Political Praxis Feminist Positionality: Renegade Architecture in a Certain Ambiguity Politics of (post)Modern Space: Asante Women's Place in a Capitalist Spatiality Auntie Pauline Sampene (Mobility) Akwantu: Travel and the Making of RoadsAuntie Evelina Amoakohene (Education) Anibuei: Civilization and the Opening of Eyes Akosua Serwa Opoku-Bonsu (Economics) Sikas?m: Money Matters and the Love of Gold Nana Sarpoma (Asante Identity) Process not State, Becoming not Being Towards a Pedagogy of Critical Spatial Literacy

Über Autor(innen)

Epifania Akosua Amoo-Adare is a research specialist at Reach Out to Asia (ROTA), a non-profit organization affiliated with the Qatar Foundation. She has a PhD in Education from the University of California, Los Angeles and is a RIBA part II qualified architect, with over 26 years of experience working within the fields of education, international development, and social housing in countries like Afghanistan, Georgia, Ghana, Qatar, the United Kingdom, and the United States.