在沙滩上分享:加纳阿克拉的旅行、坑和坑洼

Katherine Dawson
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本文将沙子作为参与加纳阿克拉市当代生计的一种潜在方式,阿克拉是西非城市化地区许多大都市节点之一。作为具体城市化核心的真实材料,也隐喻着生活和生计的机会和收入的变化,沙子是一种观察和书写城市的方式。本文以更具体的方式将城市沙子的这两个方面结合在一起,考虑城市的物质生产如何成为城市生活制造的不均匀,不确定的基础。根据在阿克拉进行的为期14个月的人种学田野调查,这篇文章研究了沙子在整个城市的流动,从采掘区(或矿坑)到卡车,再到消费地点。通过研究沙子在改变形状、形式和方向时的物质行为和时间节点,文章描绘了沙子成为城市地区不同人群交换、谈判和最终收入平台的方式。反过来,它提供了沙子的一部分,作为在沙子上和通过沙子提出的各种主张的试探性容纳空间,将它们定位为居民主导的新兴政治的象征,要求分享收入、生计和城市未来。
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A share in the sands: trips, pits and potholes in Accra, Ghana
Abstract This article deploys sand as a potential way of engaging with contemporary livelihoods in the Ghanaian city of Accra – one of many metropolitan nodes in an urbanizing region of West Africa. Both as a very real material at the heart of concrete urbanization and as metaphorically indicative of the shifting landscapes of opportunity and income on which lives and livelihoods are marked out, sand is offered as a way of seeing and writing about the city. The article brings these two facets of urban sand together in more concrete ways, considering how the material production of the city becomes the uneven, uncertain ground of urban life-making. Drawing from fourteen months of ethnographic fieldwork in Accra, the article engages with the movements of sand across the city, as it travels from extraction zones (or pits) to lorries and then to places of consumption. By honing in on the material behaviours and temporal junctures of sand as it shifts its shape, form and directions, the article draws out the ways in which sand emerges as a platform for exchange, negotiation and ultimately income for different people across the city region. In turn, it offers a share in the sands as a tentative holding space for the kinds of claims made on and through sand, positioning them as indicative of a dweller-led, emergent politics that claims a share of an income, livelihood and urban future.
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