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Associational Life in African Cities
Arne Tostensen
Inge Tvedten
Mariken Vaa
其他書名
Popular Responses to the Urban Crisis
出版
Nordic Africa Institute
, 2001
主題
Social Science / Sociology / General
Social Science / Sociology / Urban
Social Science / Developing & Emerging Countries
ISBN
9171064656
9789171064653
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=H7ZOn1GxtbgC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
The book contains 17 chapters with material from 13 African countries, from Egypt to Swaziland and from Senegal to Kenya. Most of the authors are young African academics. The focus of the volume is the multitude of voluntary associations that has emerged in African cities in recent years. In many cases, they are a response to mounting poverty, failing infrastructure and services, and more generally, weak or abdicating urban governments. Some associations are new, in other cases, existing organizations are taking on new tasks. Associations may be neighbourhood-based, others may be city-wide and based on professional groupings or a shared ideology or religion. Still others have an ethnic base. Some of these organizations are engaged in both day-to-day matters of urban management and more long-term urban development. Urban associations challenge the monopoly of local and central government institutions.