Description: State of Slum : Precarity and Informal Governance at the Margins in Accra, Hardcover by Stacey, Paul, ISBN 1786992043, ISBN-13 9781786992048, Brand New, Free shipping in the US Home to eighty thousand people, Accra&;s Old Fadama neighborhood 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, marginalized 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, more than 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, th 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.
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Book Title: State of Slum : Precarity and Informal Governance at the Margins
Number of Pages: 240 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: State of Slum : Precarity and Informal Governance at the Margins in Accra
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic & Professional
Subject: Africa / West, Africa / General, General, Anthropology / General, Sociology / Urban
Item Height: 0.7 in
Publication Year: 2019
Item Weight: 15.9 Oz
Type: Textbook
Author: Paul Stacey
Item Length: 8.5 in
Subject Area: Political Science, Social Science, History
Series: Politics and Society in Urban Africa Ser.
Item Width: 5.5 in
Format: Hardcover
