8. Concrete Does not Cry: Interdisciplinary Reflections on and Beyond Housing

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. List of Illustrations VII
4. 1. Introduction 1
5. 2. The Rule of Rent: The State, Employers and the Becoming Urban Dweller in Northern Rhodesia Acting Across a Societal Field of Force, c. 1948–1962 31
6. 3. Ruashi, a Pessac in Congo? On the Design, Inhabitation, and Transformation of a 1950s Neighborhood in Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of the Congo 66
7. 4. At Home with Nairobi’s Working Poor: Reading Meja Mwangi’s Urban Novels 98
8. 5. La problématique de l’habitat dans la ville de Lubumbashi (Elisabethville), province du Katanga, 1910–1960 121
9. 6. House, Home, Health and Hygiene – Social Engineering of Workers in Elisabethville/ Lubumbashi (1940s to 1960s) Through the Lens of Language Usage 141
10. 7. Spatio-physical Power and Social Control Strategies of the Colonial State in Africa: The Case of CDC Workers’ Camps in Cameroon 167
11. 8. Concrete Does not Cry: Interdisciplinary Reflections on and Beyond Housing 185
12. Contributors 217
13. Index 221