Monrovia Modern
Urban Form and Political Imagination in Liberia
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ISBN-13:
9780822358848
Veröffentl:
2017
Erscheinungsdatum:
14.11.2017
Seiten:
232
Autor:
Danny Hoffman
Gewicht:
674 g
Format:
255x179x15 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Danny Hoffman is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Washington and the author of The War Machines: Young Men and Violence in Sierra Leone and Liberia, also published by Duke University Press. As a photojournalist, he documented conflicts in southern Africa and the Balkans from 1994 to 1998.
Illustrations xiii Preface xvii Acknowledgments xxiii Introduction 1 1. Live Dangerously, My Brothers: Ex-Combatants and the Political Economy of Space 33 2. The Ministry of Defense: Excessive Architecture 61 3. E. J. Roye: The Corporate (Post)Modern 91 4. Hotel Africa: The Uncritical Ruin 115 5. Liberia Broadcasting System: Three Utopias 143 6. Finding Urban Form: A Coda 175 Notes 183 References 189 Index 203
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