| Record Type: |
Electronic resources
: monographic
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| Title Information: |
contemporary Asante women's place-making |
| Author: |
Amoo-AdareEpifania Akosua, 1967- |
| Secondary Intellectual Responsibility: |
Palgrave Connect (Online service) |
| Place of Publication: |
New York |
| Published: |
Palgrave Macmillan; |
| Year of Publication: |
2013 |
| Edition: |
1st ed. |
| Description: |
1 online resource (xviii, 173 p.)ill. : |
| Series: |
Gender and cultural studies in Africa and the diaspora |
| Subject: |
Spatial behavior - Ghana - |
| Subject: |
Women, Ashanti - Social conditions. - |
| Subject: |
Feminist geography - Ghana - |
| Subject: |
Women, Ashanti - Social conditions. - Ghana - |
| Online resource: |
http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9781137281074An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click for information |
| Notes: |
Revision of the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, Los Angeles, 2006. |
| Summary: |
This book makes the case for an urgent praxis of critical spatial literacy for African women. It provides a critical analysis of how Asante women negotiate and understand the politics of contemporary space in Accra and beyond and the effect it has on their lives, demonstrating how they critically "read that world." Additionally, the book provides insight into Asante women's perspectives on their urban living conditions, their sense of place in Ghana's capital and the world at large, and how they make sense of these contemporary spaces, which are the result of transnational economic and cultural flows. In other words, the author discusses and recounts experiences surrounding her development and execution of a renegade African-feminist architecture project that reveals Asante women's critical literacy of contemporary space in terms of what they describe as its significant socio-spatial effects of akwantu, anibuei, ne sikasem: that is, travel, 'civilization,' and economics. |
| ISBN: |
9781137281074electronic bk. |
| ISBN: |
1137281073electronic bk. |
| Content Note: |
Chapter 1. Introduction: Critical spatial literacy is urgent political praxis Chapter 2. Feminist positionality: renegade architecture in a certain ambiguity Chapter 3. Politics of (post)modern space: Asante women's place in a capitalist spatiality Vignette 1. Auntie Pauline Sampene (mobility) Chapter 4. Akwantu: travel and the making of roads Vignette 2. Auntie Evelina Amoakohene (education) Chapter 5. Anibuei: civilization and the opening of eyes Vignette 3. Akosua Serwa Opoku-Bonsu (economics) Chapter 6. Sikas'm: money matters and the love of gold Vignette 4. Nana Sarpoma (Asante identity) Chapter 7. Process not state, becoming not being Chapter 8. Conclusion: towards a pedagogy of critical spatial literacy. |