1st Edition

Crisis Urbanism and Postcolonial African Cities in Postmillennial Cinema

By Addamms Mututa Copyright 2022
150 Pages
by Routledge

150 Pages
by Routledge

150 Pages
by Routledge

This book provides a framework to rethink postcoloniality and urbanism from African perspectives. Bringing together multidisciplinary perspectives on African crises through postmillennial films, the book addresses the need to situate global south cultural studies within the region. The book employs film criticism and semiotics as devices to decode contemporary cultures of African cities, with... Read more

1. Crisis Urbanism in Context  2. Crisis of Nonentity - ‘Unknowing’ Johannesburg’s Postapartheid Townships  3. Laissez Faire Urbanism: Economies of Dystopia in Postcolonial Kinshasa  4. Urbanism of the Commons: Inhabiting Trash and a Crisis of Communing in Nairobi  5. Rarray Urbanism: The Superficies of Monrovia’s Hustlers in Postwar Urban Crisis  6. Revolt Urbanism: Cairo’s Crisis Citizenship Under Construction  7. Outlier Urbanism: Inside Luanda’s Postwar Cantonments  8. Crisis Urbanism and the Future of African Cities

Biography

Addamms Mututa is a postdoctoral research fellow at the African Centre for Cities, University of Cape Town. He practices interdisciplinary research on cinema and global south cities and holds a joint PhD from the University of Tübingen, Germany, and the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.