Crisis Urbanism and Postcolonial African Cities in Postmillen... - 9780367640835

Taylor & Francis

Crisis Urbanism and Postcolonial African Cities in Postmillennial CinemaAuthor(s): Addamms Mututa\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367640835, 978-0367640835\nSynopsis\nThis book provides a framework to rethink postcoloniality and urbanism from African perspectives. Bringing together multidisciplinary perspectives on African crises through postmillennial films, the book addresses the need to situate global south cultural studies within the region. \n\nThe book employs film criticism and semiotics as devices to decode contemporary cultures of African cities, with a specific focus on crisis. Drawing on a variety of contemporary theories on cities of the global south, especially Africa, the book sifts through nuances of crisis urbanism within postmillennial African films. In doing so the book offers unique perspectives that move beyond the confines of sociological or anthropological studies of cities. It argues that .