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Space of Transformation

By Geert Castryck

Space of Transformation

By Geert Castryck

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Drawing on a wide range of archives, historical publications, oral history, graphic, audiovisual and web sources, Geert Castryck presents Kigoma-Ujiji as both shaping and being shaped by global transformations. On the surface, the book offers almost two centuries of urban history on Lake Tanganyika in western Tanzania, close to the Burundian and Congolese borders, in a place that has been a transport hub throughout that time. Beneath the surface, it is also about major transformations on a global scale, and about people dealing with and coping with these global challenges far from the supposed global powerhouses. Urbanization and infrastructure, colonization and decolonization, liberalization and democratization, war refugees, world heritage and translocal identities are the entry points for interpreting transformations that are local and global at the same time. The author uses the analytical categories of "liminal space" and "portal of globalization" to link the marginality and uncertainty that characterize the successive transformations in Kigoma-Ujiji with the urban resilience and creativity used to manage these transformations.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
264
Release Date:
2025-08-18
Publication Date:
2025-08-18
Publisher:
de Gruyter Oldenbourg
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
3111436616
ISBN13:
9783111436616
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
478 g
Height:
157 cm
Width:
231 cm
Thickness:
22 cm
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