Domestic Realms, Social Bonds, and Class: Ideologies and Indigenizing Modernity in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Lewinson, Anne S.

doi:10.1080/00083968.2006.10751402

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“…I do not intend to suggest that boundary work is unique to the middle classes, but rather that there is something distinctive about the suburban boundary work in which Dar es Salaam's middle classes engage in their attempts to distinguish themselves from the urban poor and the very rich. Indeed, research that has been conducted in the city's poorer neighbourhoods provides insight into the rationalities and moralities that shape the boundary work of the urban poor (Lugalla, ; Moyer, ; Lewinson, ; Brennan, ; Degani, ). Their disdain for the inflated super rich who have accumulated unimaginable wealth through questionable means since the onset of liberalization in the mid 1980s has been captured by the Chama Cha Mapinduzi ’s (CCM) recent re‐emphasis on the socialist era's rhetoric of self‐reliance and hard work.…”

Section: Spatializing Middle‐class Boundary Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Boundary Work: Becoming Middle Class in Suburban Dar es Salaam

Mercer¹

2018

Int J Urban Regional Res

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Suburban space provides a useful window onto contemporary class practices in Africa, where it is difficult to identify social classes on the basis of income or occupation. In this article I argue that the middle classes and the suburbs are mutually constitutive in the Tanzanian city of Dar es Salaam. Using interviews with residents and local government officials in the city's northern suburbs, I discuss the material and representational practices of middle-class boundary work in relation to land and landscape. If the middle classes do not presently constitute a coherent political-economic force, they are nevertheless transforming the city's former northern peri-urban zones into desirable suburban residential neighbourhoods.

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Section: Spatializing Middle‐class Boundary Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Boundary Work: Becoming Middle Class in Suburban Dar es Salaam

Mercer¹

2018

Int J Urban Regional Res

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“…As of 2002, Kilimanjaro had the second highest rate of literacy after Dar es Salaam, and highest level of school completion. But it has also experienced a net out-migration – by individuals of all educational levels (United Republic of Tanzania 2006: 57–66, 152).…”

Section: The Suburban Vanguard's Upcountry Originsmentioning

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Post-Colonial Migration: Virtual Culture, Urban Farming and New Peri-Urban Growth in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, 1975–2000

Owens¹

2010

Africa

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Using ethnographic and historical approaches, this article examines unplanned, peri-urban settlements on Dar es Salaam's northern and western fringe, where urban farming is central to many residents’ household economy. Contrasting with conventional models of African urban migration, these new districts were established by a vanguard of educated urban professionals, utilizing farming as an economic diversification strategy. Despite disjunctures arising through decolonization and implementation of state socialism in the 1960s and 1970s, this peri-urban vanguard not only engaged in agricultural activities reminiscent of regions on the borderlands of Tanzania, but also contributed to the reproduction of configurations of socio-economic inequality characteristic of other kinds of urban communities. With critical infrastructural improvements and a pool of urban labourers supporting their endeavours, these districts attracted additional, economically influential urban in-migrants following capitalist reforms following the implementation of the Zanzibar Declaration in 1991.

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“…The new house styles built by the middle classes are the latest in a series of changes in domestic architecture in Tanzania since at least the start of the twentieth century (Kyhn 1984;Lewinson 2006). On Kilimanjaro for example, architecture has changed from compounds of conical huts made of banana palms, each with a specialised function (for men, women and cattle), to simple mud-brick two-room bungalows containing a bedroom and living room, to larger extended variations of single-storey bungalows built in permanent materials.…”

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Middle class construction: domestic architecture, aesthetics and anxieties in Tanzania

Mercer

2014

J. Mod. Afr. Stud.

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This paper examines the new styles of houses under construction in contemporaryTanzania and suggests that they can be understood as the material manifestation of middle class growth. Through an examination of the architecture, interior décor and compound space in a sample of these new houses in urban Dar es Salaam and rural Kilimanjaro, the paper identifies four domestic aesthetics: the respectable house, the locally aspirant house, the globally aspirant house, and the minimalist house, each of which map on to ideas about ujamaa, liberalization and the consumption of global consumer goods in distinct ways. The paper argues that these different domestic aesthetics demonstrate intraclass differences, and in particular the emergence of a new middle class.

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Domestic Realms, Social Bonds, and Class: Ideologies and Indigenizing Modernity in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Cited by 17 publications

References 4 publications

Boundary Work: Becoming Middle Class in Suburban Dar es Salaam

Boundary Work: Becoming Middle Class in Suburban Dar es Salaam

Post-Colonial Migration: Virtual Culture, Urban Farming and New Peri-Urban Growth in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, 1975–2000

Middle class construction: domestic architecture, aesthetics and anxieties in Tanzania

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