Overview
- THEORY and PRAXIS: The author's Critical Spatial Literacy offers a new analytic framework as well as a blueprint for action.
- GROUNDED ANALYSIS: AmmoAdare grounds her study in the everyday lived experience of actual Ghanaian women.
- BROADLY APPLICABLE: The book offers a highly creative way to explain the various issues that female migrants and immigrants face upon encountering urban life and cities.
Part of the book series: Gender and Cultural Studies in Africa and the Diaspora (GCSAD)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Introduction: Critical Spatial Literacy is Urgent Political Praxis
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Feminist Positionality: Renegade Architecture in a Certain Ambiguity
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Politics of (Post)Modern Space: Asante Women’s Place in a Capitalist Spatiality
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Auntie Pauline Sampene (Mobility)
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Auntie Evelina Amoakohene (Education)
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Akosua Serwa Opoku-Bonsu (Economics)
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Nana Sarpoma (Asante Identity)
Reviews
"In this compelling new book, Epifania Akosua Amoo-Adare offers a much-needed bottom-up analysis of urban space in Africa ... The author effectively balances advanced theory with richly detailed, insightful narratives that make the text accessible and essential for students, scholars, and practitioners alike." - Journal of the American Planning Association
"The coruscatingly pathbreaking and iconoclastic text opens up new approaches to our understanding of the relationship among space, scale, gender, pedagogy, and the coloniality of being. It is a must read." - Peter McLaren, Professor, Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles, and author of Che Guevara, Paulo Freire, and the Pedagogy of Liberation
"Drawing on her personal mobility and professional history as an architect with an Asante heritage, the author offers feminists, planners, architects, globalists, and Africanists a new way of conceptualizing race, class, sex, and culture through critical spatial literacy. She grounds the everyday lives of fifteen Asante women in Accra in their migration to the city where education, centrality of money and hard work, and pride in their identity brings to life a vibrant analysis about fluidity amid rapid urbanization and the need for a womanist politics of urban space." - Jacqueline Leavitt, Professor, Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Luskin School of Public Affairs, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
"What Amoo-Adare brings to the literature is an intensely critical approach that is self-refl ective. Her identity informs the work and gives it urgency . . . Yet she is aware of her role as both insider and outsider, given her identity as a woman architect and scholar with African roots, a Western education and extensive travel in her adult life. She intentionally brings that hybrid identity into her analysis. By doing so, she gives readers a model for how to think about their own identities and trainings and how that affects their interpretation of urbanization in different parts of the world." – Jorunal of the American Planning Association
"In this compelling new book, Epifania Akosua Amoo-Adare offers a much-needed bottom-up analysis of urban space in Africa ... The author effectively balances advanced theory with richly detailed, insightful narratives that make the text accessible and essential for students, scholars, and practitioners alike." - Journal of the American Planning Association
"The coruscatingly pathbreaking and iconoclastic text opens up new approaches to our understanding of the relationship among space, scale, gender, pedagogy, and the coloniality of being. It is a must read." - Peter McLaren, Professor, Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles, and author ofChe Guevara, Paulo Freire, and the Pedagogy of Liberation
"Drawing on her personal mobility and professional history as an architect with an Asante heritage, the author offers feminists, planners, architects, globalists, and Africanists a new way of conceptualizing race, class, sex, and culture through critical spatial literacy. She grounds the everyday lives of fifteen Asante women in Accra in their migration to the city where education, centrality of money and hard work, and pride in their identity brings to life a vibrant analysis about fluidity amid rapid urbanization and the need for a womanist politics of urban space." - Jacqueline Leavitt, Professor, Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Luskin School of Public Affairs, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Spatial Literacy
Book Subtitle: Contemporary Asante Women’s Place-making
Authors: Epifania Akosua Amoo-Adare
Series Title: Gender and Cultural Studies in Africa and the Diaspora
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137281074
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Social Sciences Collection, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-28106-7Published: 06 February 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-137-57595-1Published: 06 February 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-28107-4Published: 06 February 2013
Series ISSN: 2946-3793
Series E-ISSN: 2946-3807
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 173
Topics: African Culture, Sociology, general, Gender Studies, Urban Studies/Sociology, Feminism