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Kigali: A New City for the End of the World Volume 20

Kigali: A New City for the End of the World Volume 20 - Paperback

by Samuel Shearer
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Availability:In StockContributor:Samuel ShearerSeries:Atelier: Ethnographic Inquiry in the Twenty-First CenturyPublish date:10/21/2025Pages:238
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of California PressISBN-13:9780520409972ISBN-10:520409973UPC:9780520409972Book Category:Social Science, Political ScienceBook Subcategory:Anthropology, Cultural & Ethnic Studies, Public PolicyBook Topic:Cultural & Social, African Studies, City Planning & Urban DevelopmentSize:8.90 x 5.90 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.7011Product ID:SCPC70Y290
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In the first decade of the twenty-first century, the government of Rwanda hired American and Singaporean design firms to transform the image of Kigali from a wounded city into a competitive destination for foreign investment. The firms produced promotional images of a post-conflict tabula rasa waiting to be rebuilt by foreign investors as an urban solution to climate change. However, to make this marketing image real, much of the actual city would need to be destroyed and its residents converted to consumers of green housing and service delivery systems.

Kigali is an ethnography of a city that is being destroyed so that it can be rebuilt for the end of the world. Drawing on years of ethnographic fieldwork with Kigali residents as they navigate the catastrophes induced by sustainable urbanism, this book offers a searing critique of capitalist solutions to climate change and an account of the city's popular alternatives to sustainable urbanism.
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of California PressISBN-13:9780520409972ISBN-10:520409973UPC:9780520409972Book Category:Social Science, Political ScienceBook Subcategory:Anthropology, Cultural & Ethnic Studies, Public PolicyBook Topic:Cultural & Social, African Studies, City Planning & Urban DevelopmentSize:8.90 x 5.90 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.7011Product ID:SCPC70Y290
Samuel Shearer is Assistant Professor in the Department of African and African American Studies at Washington University in St. Louis.
Publisher: University of California Press

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