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Histories of Dirt
Media and Urban Life in Colonial and Postcolonial Lagos
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Englisch
Veröffentlicht/Copyright:
2020
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Focusing on colonial and postcolonial Lagos, Stephanie Newell traces the ways in which urban spaces come to be regarded as dirty by showing how colonial perceptions of dirt and cleanliness structured colonial governance, urban planning, public health policies, and relationships between colonists and native Lagosians.
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Stephanie Newell is Professor of English at Yale University and Professor Extraordinaire at the University of Stellenbosch. She is the author of several books, most recently, The Power to Name: A History of Anonymity in Colonial West Africa.
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"Stephanie Newell's Histories of Dirt does for this generation what Mary Douglas did with Purity and Danger several decades ago. Focusing on what seems ubiquitous and thus utterly banal—dirt—Newell shows how the phenomenon of dirt is interpretable from a variety of sometimes contradictory perspectives both by local Africans and by the team of researchers that set about investigating the phenomenon. This is a high-order interdisciplinary work, full of fresh insights and with a turn toward what Africans think about themselves that will provide salutary methodological and conceptual lessons for scholars in African Studies and well beyond."
-- Ato Quayson, Stanford University
“Brilliantly reading imperial discourse against the grain, Stephanie Newell offers compelling dissections of the perspectives, assumptions, privileged subject positions, and framings that characterize imperial thought. At the same time, she gives close attention and consideration to the range of voices of the people of Lagos, producing powerful arguments about the popular, cultural, and social structures that express urban values. With great ingenuity, Newell has constituted an archive of the present that provides local voices and views on subjects initially warped by colonial discourse. Histories of Dirt is an important and major contribution.”
-- Kenneth W. Harrow, author of Trash: African Cinema from Below
"Histories of Dirt is a work of great creativity and nuance, and its message is especially urgent today. 'Èkó ò ní bàjé,' goes a political slogan turned popular now—Lagos will not spoil."
-- Samuel Fury Childs Daly International Journal of African Historical Studies
"The book is noteworthy for its contribution to our knowledge of how modernity has evolved in African cities, in a period over a century, a process illustrated through the histories of dirt in the city of Lagos. It is certainly useful to all those interested in the political and social history of cities and urban planning in Africa."
-- Carlos Nunes Silva Planning Perspectives
"Newell's prose is lucid and not belabored with theoretical jargons.… The book is also a huge contribution to postcolonial studies and public health. The most recent example through which we can come to terms with Newell on this cutting-edge scholarship is in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, in which different world leaders and citizens invoke dirt rhetoric against Asian bodies."
-- Olájídé Salawu Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry
“Histories of Dirt is a helpful manual for how dirt, as a word, an object, and a discourse, can be used to constitute archives, influence public opinion, and spark imagination.”
-- Ainehi Edoro-Glines Journal of African History
"Histories of Dirt is a formidable accomplishment of interdisciplinary scholarship and storytelling. . . . The book is exemplary for the fluidity of its narrative arc, for its methodological reflexivity, for its detailed attention to vernacular language, and for its richly textured, polyphonic portrait of Lago as a (post)colonial metropolis."
-- Fabien Cante Africa
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Frontmatter
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CONTENTS
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ABBREVIATIONS
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AUTHOR’S NOTE
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PREFACE. The Cultural Politics of Dirt in Africa (Dirtpol) Project
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
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INTRODUCTION
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1 European Insanitary Nuisances
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2 Malaria: Lines in the Dirt
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3 African Newspapers, the “Great Unofficial Public,” and Plague in Colonial Lagos
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4 Screening Dirt: Public Health Movies in Colonial Nigeria and Rural Spectatorship in the 1930s and 1940s
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5 Methods, Unsound Methods, No Methods at All?
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6 Popular Perceptions of “Dirty” in Multicultural Lagos
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7 Remembering Waste
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8 City Sexualities: Negotiating Homophobia
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CONCLUSION. Mediated Publics, Uncontrollable Audiences
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APPENDIX. Words, Phrases, and Sayings Relating to Dirt in Lagos
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NOTES
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REFERENCES
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INDEX
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20. Dezember 2019
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