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Post-genocide identity politics and colonial durabilities in Rwanda 卢旺达种族灭绝后的身份政治和殖民的持久性

Critical African Studies Pub Date : 2021-06-21 DOI: 10.1080/21681392.2021.1938404

A. Purdeková, David Mwambari

引用次数: 13

Longola Marche Arrière! Chinese diesel engines on Congo’s inland waterways Longola Marche arrival !刚果内河航道上的中国柴油发动机

Critical African Studies Pub Date : 2021-06-07 DOI: 10.1080/21681392.2021.1931385

P. Lambertz

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引用次数: 1

The making and re-making of the ‘rape capital of the world’: on colonial durabilities and the politics of sexual violence statistics in DRC “世界强奸之都”的制造和再造:关于刚果民主共和国的殖民持久性和性暴力统计的政治

Critical African Studies Pub Date : 2021-05-13 DOI: 10.1080/21681392.2021.1902831

Chloé Lewis

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引用次数: 6

In the shadows of the third Chimurenga?: African migrant intermediaries and beneficiaries within Zimbabwe’s agrarian reform matrix 在第三个奇穆伦加的阴影下?:津巴布韦土地改革矩阵内的非洲移民中介和受益者

Critical African Studies Pub Date : 2021-05-04 DOI: 10.1080/21681392.2021.1935087

Anusa Daimon

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引用次数: 3

Staging the Zimbabwean ‘revolution’: ‘Carnivalising’ the November 2017 demonstration 上演津巴布韦“革命”:将2017年11月的示威活动“狂欢化”

Critical African Studies Pub Date : 2021-05-04 DOI: 10.1080/21681392.2021.1894956

Nkulukelo Sibanda

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引用次数: 1

Inhabitant By Sello Pesa and Vaughn Sadie (2011) or how to (re)imagine public spaces in Johannesburg through art Sello Pesa和Vaughn Sadie的《居住者》(2011)或如何通过艺术(重新)想象约翰内斯堡的公共空间

Critical African Studies Pub Date : 2021-04-06 DOI: 10.1080/21681392.2021.1902830

P. Guinard

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引用次数: 0

The promises, poetics and politics of verticality in the really high African city 在这个真正的高非洲城市里，垂直的承诺，诗意和政治

Critical African Studies Pub Date : 2021-01-11 DOI: 10.1080/21681392.2020.1850305

J. Cane

{"title":"The promises, poetics and politics of verticality in the really high African city","authors":"J. Cane","doi":"10.1080/21681392.2020.1850305","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21681392.2020.1850305","url":null,"abstract":"This article is an attempt to foreground considerations in African cities of three-dimensional urbanism, or what Eyal Weizman has called the ‘politics of verticality’. Through analysis of the work of three builder/artists the article resists a strain of persistent horizontality in African urban studies. The focus of this article is on three specific urban forms which are contested in interesting and provocative ways. The first, the Tower, in Limete Kinshasa is simultaneously a built form, an imagined space, a set of processes, a film and a theoretical proposition for Filip de Boeck and Sammy Baloji. The second structure is a radical reimagining of Bodys Isek Kingelez’s childhood agricultural village as a megacity of cardboard skyscrapers, paper parks and polystyrene promenades. Kimbembele Ihunga (1994) is a three-by-two-meter ‘extreme maquette’ in which Kingelez presents an unbuildable city which is nevertheless intended in all seriousness as a visionary proposal for post-independence African urbanism. The third structure is a literary residential high-rise, the Maianga Building in Luanda. Ondjaki’s novel, Transparent City (2018) presents the biography of a building in a general state of decay but which is, counterintuitively, not a burden to its residents; in fact, its idiosyncratic dysfunction offers some promising, pleasant and useful affordances.","PeriodicalId":37966,"journal":{"name":"Critical African Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85194927","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 3

Visions, writings and walls: perceptual learning and the artwork of Kemang Wa Lehulere 视觉，文字和墙壁:感性学习和克曼·瓦·勒胡勒尔的艺术作品

Critical African Studies Pub Date : 2021-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/21681392.2021.1884107

R. Salley

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引用次数: 0

Sovereignty and development: law and the politics of traditional knowledge in Kenya 主权与发展:肯尼亚传统知识的法律与政治

Critical African Studies Pub Date : 2021-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/21681392.2021.1884108

J. Harrington, H. Deacon, P. Munyi

引用次数: 1

Institutional culture and transformation in higher education in post-1994 South Africa: a critical race theory analysis 1994年后南非高等教育的制度文化与转型:一个批判的种族理论分析

Critical African Studies Pub Date : 2021-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/21681392.2021.1911448

C. Adonis, F. Silinda

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引用次数: 12