Rijke-Epstein Children of the Soil

The Power of Built Form in Urban Madagascar
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-4780-2740-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 368 Seiten

Tasha Rijke-Epstein offers an urban history of the Indian Ocean port city of Mahajanga, Madagascar, showing how the built environment was central to how its residents negotiated imperial encroachment, colonial rule, and global racial capitalism over two centuries.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rijke-Epstein, Tasha

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Architektur: Allgemeines
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Afrikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Historische & Regionale Volkskunde

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Note on Toponyms ix
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction: Material Histories 1
I. Building Power
1. Casting the Land: Architectural Tactics and the Politics of Durability 27
2. Vibrant Matters: The Rova and More-Than-Human Forces 54
II. Anticipatory Landscapes
3. Storied Refusals: Labor and Laden Absences 87
4. Sedimentary Bonds: Treasured Mosques and Everyday Expertise 123
III. Residual Lives and Afterlives
5. Garnered Presences: Constructing and Belonging in the Zanatany City 161
6. Violent Remnants: Infrastructures of Possibility and Peril 195
Epilogue: Unfinished Histories 225
Notes 241
Bibliography 293
Index 339

Über Autor(innen)

Tasha Rijke-Epstein is Assistant Professor of History at Vanderbilt University.