Cities in Contemporary Africa 2006
DOI: 10.1057/9780230603349_2
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Douala/Johannesburg/New York: Cityscapes Imagined

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“…Topological spatialities might become a comparative analytic tool for assessing the ways in which cities already inhabit each other. As Simone (2004), De Boeck and Plissart (2006) and Malaquais (2007) demonstrate, the livelihood strategies and imaginative worlds of city residents in places such as Doula and Kinshasa are entwined with other places elsewhere (such as New York and Brussels) both practically and imaginatively, in the sense that residents are always in the process of preparing to leave for an imagined elsewhere, that they already know much about other cities, or live an imaginary world that is both here and there. Within a topological imagination, making one's way in a city commonly entrains a wide diversity of other places.…”
Section: The Potential Of Comparative Researchmentioning
confidence: 94%
“…Topological spatialities might become a comparative analytic tool for assessing the ways in which cities already inhabit each other. As Simone (2004), De Boeck and Plissart (2006) and Malaquais (2007) demonstrate, the livelihood strategies and imaginative worlds of city residents in places such as Doula and Kinshasa are entwined with other places elsewhere (such as New York and Brussels) both practically and imaginatively, in the sense that residents are always in the process of preparing to leave for an imagined elsewhere, that they already know much about other cities, or live an imaginary world that is both here and there. Within a topological imagination, making one's way in a city commonly entrains a wide diversity of other places.…”
Section: The Potential Of Comparative Researchmentioning
confidence: 94%
“…For Lagos and other cities in Africa, 'wild' urbanism is located in the chaotic, constant, tangled circulations of everyday life in which 'movement becomes place'. 44 Whether referring to the shift in Detroit's urban form in the past few decades or the confusing connections that exemplify informalised economic and social life in Lagos, the rise of these new urban jungles (and the new urban explorers they engender) is no relic of the past or just characteristic of a few marginal outliers. Rather, they unmask an often neglected part of global urban capitalism's present.…”
Section: Lagos and Detroit: Worlding Wildingmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…So why call it Brussels? How the people of Butembo see Brussels is shaped by global imaginaries (Appadurai, 1996; De Boeck and Plissart, 2004; Malaquais, 2006), an intangible flow made up of mental representations, a flow constructive and decisive for the way Brussels is imagined, thought over, and thought to be. It consists of visual and audible scraps and snippets of accounts that blend into the imagined new thing .…”
Section: The Many Ways Of Being Brusselsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…It consists of visual and audible scraps and snippets of accounts that blend into the imagined new thing . Following Dominique Malaquais (2006: 34), I would rather use the term imaginaire than imagination, as imaginaire ‘encompasses both the act of imagining and that which is imagined, the sum total of what can, or might, be imagined of a given place, person, or idea’. The citizens of Butembo's imaginaire as a whole is made up of the totality of their individual contributions, active efforts of the mind built upon associations and connotations rather than upon genuine material.…”
Section: The Many Ways Of Being Brusselsmentioning
confidence: 99%