Gone to Ground : A History of Environment and Infrastructure in Dar Es Salaam

Emily Brownell

ISBN 10: 0822946114 / ISBN 13: 9780822946113

Edité par University Of Pittsburgh Press Mär 2020, 2020

A propos de cet article

Neuware - Finalist, 2021 ASA Bethwell A. Ogot Book Prize Gone to Ground is an investigation into the material and political forces that transformed the cityscape of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania in the 1970s and early 1980s. It is both the story of a particular city and the history of a global moment of massive urban transformation from the perspective of those at the center of this shift. Built around an archive of newspapers, oral history interviews, planning documents, and a broad compendium of development reports, Emily Brownell writes about how urbanites navigated the state's anti-urban planning policies along with the city's fracturing infrastructures and profound shortages of staple goods to shape Dar's environment. They did so most frequently by 'going to ground' in the urban periphery, orienting their lives to the city's outskirts where they could plant small farms, find building materials, produce charcoal, and escape the state's policing of urban space. Taking seriously as historical subject the daily hurdles of families to find housing, food, transportation, and space in the city, these quotidian concerns are drawn into conversation with broader national and transnational anxieties about the oil crisis, resource shortages, infrastructure, and African socialism. In bringing these concerns together into the same frame, Gone to Ground considers how the material and political anxieties of the era were made manifest in debates about building materials, imported technologies, urban agriculture, energy use, and who defines living and laboring in the city.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Gone to Ground : A History of Environment and Infrastructure in Dar Es Salaam
• Éditeur: University Of Pittsburgh Press Mär 2020
• Date de parution: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0822946114
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780822946113
• Reliure: Buch
• État de l'article: Neu
• Dimensions: 231 L x 160 H x 28 P (en millimètres) 231 millimètres de largeur par 160 millimètres de hauteur par 28 millimètres de profondeur
• Poids: 522 grammes

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Synopsis

Finalist, 2021 ASA Bethwell A. Ogot Book Prize Gone to Ground is an investigation into the material and political forces that transformed the cityscape of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania in the 1970s and early 1980s. It is both the story of a particular city and the history of a global moment of massive urban transformation from the perspective of those at the center of this shift. Built around an archive of newspapers, oral history interviews, planning documents, and a broad compendium of development reports, Emily Brownell writes about how urbanites navigated the state’s anti-urban planning policies along with the city’s fracturing infrastructures and profound shortages of staple goods to shape Dar’s environment. They did so most frequently by “going to ground” in the urban periphery, orienting their lives to the city’s outskirts where they could plant small farms, find building materials, produce charcoal, and escape the state’s policing of urban space. Taking seriously as historical subject the daily hurdles of families to find housing, food, transportation, and space in the city, these quotidian concerns are drawn into conversation with broader national and transnational anxieties about the oil crisis, resource shortages, infrastructure, and African socialism. In bringing these concerns together into the same frame, Gone to Ground considers how the material and political anxieties of the era were made manifest in debates about building materials, imported technologies, urban agriculture, energy use, and who defines living and laboring in the city.

À propos de l'auteur

Emily Brownell is a Lecturer in Environmental History at the University of Edinburgh. Her work focuses on environmental, technological, and planning histories in Africa.