The Aesthetics of Belonging: Indigenous Urbanism and City Building in Oil-Boom Luanda by Gastrow, Claudia
The Aesthetics of Belonging: Indigenous Urbanism and City Building in Oil-Boom Luanda by Gastrow, Claudia

The Aesthetics of Belonging: Indigenous Urbanism and City Building in Oil-Boom Luanda

After centuries of colonial rule, the end of Angola's three-decade civil war in 2002 provided an irresistible...
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Author: Claudia Gastrow
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The Aesthetics of Belonging: Indigenous Urbanism and City Building in Oil-Boom Luanda by Gastrow, Claudia

The Aesthetics of Belonging: Indigenous Urbanism and City Building in Oil-Boom Luanda

$90.58
The Aesthetics of Belonging: Indigenous Urbanism and City Building in Oil-Boom Luanda by Gastrow, Claudia

The Aesthetics of Belonging: Indigenous Urbanism and City Building in Oil-Boom Luanda

$90.58
Author: Claudia Gastrow
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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After centuries of colonial rule, the end of Angola's three-decade civil war in 2002 provided an irresistible opportunity for the government to reimagine the Luanda cityscape. Awash with petrodollars cultivated through strategic foreign relationships, President Jose Eduardo dos Santos rolled out a national reconstruction program that sought to transform Angola's capital into what he considered to be a modern, world-class metropolis. Until funds dried up in 2014, the program--in conjunction with sweeping private investments in real estate--involved mass demolitions of vernacular architecture to make way for high-rise buildings, large-scale housing projects, and commercial centers. The program thus underestimated the values enshrined in the materials and designs of Luanda's existing "informally" constructed neighborhoods, or musseques.

The Aesthetics of Belonging explores the political significance of aesthetics in the remaking of the city. Claudia Gastrow's archival and ethnographic work, which includes interviews with city planners, architects, nonprofit leaders, and urban dwellers, shows how government infrastructure projects and foreign-inspired designs came to embody displacement and exclusion for many. This, Gastrow argues, catalyzed a countermovement, an aesthetic dissent rooted in critically reframing informal urbanism as Indigenous--a move that enabled the possibility of recognizing the political potential of informal settlements as spaces that produce belonging.

Author: Claudia Gastrow
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 10/29/2024
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.83lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.55d
ISBN: 9781469682181
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