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State of Slum

By Paul Stacey

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State of Slum

By Paul Stacey

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Home to eighty thousand people, Accra's Old Fadama neighbourhood is the largest illegal slum in Ghana. Though almost all its inhabitants are Ghanaian born, their status as illegal 'squatters' means that they live a precarious existence, marginalised within Ghanaian society and denied many of the rights to which they are entitled as citizens. The case of Old Fadama is far from unique. Across Africa, over half the population now lives in cities, and a lack of affordable housing means that growing numbers live in similar illegal slum communities, often in appalling conditions. Drawing on rich, ethnographic fieldwork, the book takes as its point of departure the narratives that emerge from the everyday lives and struggles of these people, using the perspective offered by Old Fadama as a means of identifying wider trends and dynamics across African slums. Central to Stacey's argument is the idea that such slums possess their own structures of governance, grounded in processes of negotiation between slum residents and external actors. In the process, Stacey transforms our understanding not only of slums, but of governance itself, moving us beyond prevailing state-centric approaches to consider how even a society's most marginal members can play a key role in shaping and contesting state power.
Product details
Edition:
illustrated
Number of Pages:
234
Release Date:
2019-04-15
Publication Date:
2019-04-01
Publisher:
Bloomsbury 3PL
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1786992043
ISBN13:
9781786992048
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
466 g
Height:
145 cm
Width:
222 cm
Thickness:
17 cm
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