Governing Cities in Africa: Politics and Policies - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 0796924163 ISBN 13: 9780796924162

Casa editrice: Human Sciences Research Council, 2013

Riassunto

Rather than grouping African nations by Anglophone, Francophone, and Lusophone historical influences as many books do, this study employs a novel approach in discussing them: thematic instead of single-city chapters. The book argues that cities in sub-Saharan Africa provide the pivot around which issues of policy, practice, planning, and service delivery turn, at different scales and from the top down as well as from the bottom up. Each chapter is written by multiple authors, each of whom displays a depth of knowledge of one of three or more cities treated in each case. Party politics, for example, is examined at city level while urban security is demonstrated within both state and nonstate contexts. This account will interest scholars of African and urban studies in addition to urban policymakers and practitioners.

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L'autore:

Simon Bekker is a professor emeritus in sociology at the University of Stellenbosch, a former professor of development studies at Rhodes University, and the former director of the Center for Social and Development Studies at the University of Natal. He is the coeditor of Capital Cities in Africa; Identity? Theory, Politics, History; Reflections on Identity in Four African Cities; and Shifting African Identities. Laurent Fourchard is a senior researcher for the National Foundation of Political Science at the Centre d’Étude d’Afrique Noire at the University of Bordeaux. He is coeditor of the journal Politique africaine and has had papers published in Africa journal, History Compass online journal, and the Journal of African History.

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• Editore: Human Sciences Research Council
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0796924163
• ISBN 13: 9780796924162
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 205
• Redattore: Bekker Simon, Fourchard Laurent