Rogue Urbanism: Emergent African Cities

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Critics of these dominant discourses, such as Jennifer Robinson, AbdouMaliq Simone, Dominique Malaquais, Achille Mbembe, Asef Bayat, Ibrahim Abdullah, Okwui Enwezor, Onookome Okome, Jean Tshonda, Philip de Boeck, Sarah Nuttall, amongst many others, point to multiple alternatives in approaching and understanding the African city.

The unique ambition of Rogue Urbanism is to produce new and relevant theoretical work on African urbanism in a way that works within the border zone between inherited theoretical resources and artistic representations of everyday practices and phenomenology in African cities. The assumption is that urban theorists can renew and expand their search for grounded approaches to theorize African urbanism through an engagement with the epistemology of artists, cultural practitioners and designers; and theorists who work on the urban condition and spatiality can find new entry points to enrich their own creative processes. Where reflections fail to work directly with the insights of artists, scholars can at least work through their understanding of the ordinary in the everyday, however this may manifest or inspire.

CONTENTS
Edgar Pieterse: Grasping the unknowable: Coming to grips with African urbanisms
Matthew Barac: Place resists Grounding African urban order in an age of global change
Dominique Malaquais & Kadiatou Diallo: Igniting SPARCK
Mark Swilling: Reconceptualising urbanism, ecology and networked infrastructure
Koen van Synghel & Filip de Boeck: Bylex’s tourist city: A reflection on Utopia in the post-political city
Mario Micalau: Photo-essay: After the revolution
Nnamdi Elleh: Perspectives on the architecture of Africa’s underprivileged urban dwellers
Tshikala K. Biaya: Les jeunes, la violence et la rue   Kinshasa. Entendre, comprendre
Orli Bass: Palimpsest African Urbanity: Connecting pre-colonial and post-apartheid urban narratives in Durban
Rana El Nemr: Photo-essay Pararell worlds, buffer and twilight zones
Akin Adesokan: Anticipating Nollywood: Lagos circa 1996
Andria Moassab & Patricia Anahory: A provocation for island urbanity
Sandra Roque: Cidade and Bairro: Classification, constitution and experience of urban space in Angola
AbdouMaliq Simone: Deals with imaginaries and perspectives: Reworking urban economies in Kinshasa
Jenny F. Mbaye: On the rogue practices of West African musical entrepreneurs
Joanna Grabski: Market logics – How locality and mobility make artistic livelihoods in Dakar
Lard Buurman: Photo-essay – Boom Times
Tanya Zack: Seeking logic in the chaos precinct: The spatial and property dynamics of trading space in Jeppe
Joseph Tonda: Eblouissements urbains. Images de sapeurs, d’ordures et de Brazza   Brazzaville
Mamadou Abdoul Diop: Jeunesse, culture urbaine, et citoyennete en Mauritania
Caroline Wanjiku Kihato: The city from its margins: Rethinking urban governance through the everyday lives of migrant women in Johannesburg
Christine Hentschel: Outcharming crime in (D)urban space
Akintunde Akinleye: Photo-essay – Paradox
Olawale Ismail: Public-private partnerships and urban renewal in metropolitan Lagos: The good, the bad and the ugly
Elvira Dyangani Ose: What makes a place a city? Untimely contemporary artists and the African city
Ousmane Dembele: Abidjan ville Africaine! Hiatus entre culture locale et modernite dans la metropole Ivoirienne
Kim Gurney: Abracadabra
Kutlwano Moagi: Photo-essay – Reflections from a rusty jewel
Jay Pather: Shifting spaces, tilting time
Mokena Makeka: Thoughts on architecture, design & the emergent African city
Tau Tavengwa & Edgar Pieterse: Designing against the grain: Confronting the political economy of knowledge production
Pep Subir’s: Between dystopia and hope

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