Street Archives and City Life: Popular Intellectuals in Postcolonial Tanzania

Emily Callaci

Published by Duke University Press 2017

Street Archives and City Life

Popular Intellectuals in Postcolonial Tanzania

Emily Callaci

In the series Radical Perspectives

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822372325

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About this book

Emily Callaci maps a new terrain of political and cultural production in mid-twentieth-century Tanzanian cities. While the postcolonial Tanzanian ruling party adopted a policy of rural socialism—Ujamaa—an influx of youth migrants to the city of Dar es Salaam generated innovative forms of urbanism through the production and circulation of street archives.

Author / Editor information

Emily Callaci is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Reviews

"A brilliant book. . . . Callaci’s original approach enables readers to better understand the making of urban life beyond colonial and postcolonial cities. . . . She does this in such a way that the reader is engrossed by novelty and guided by a sense of theoretical clarity."

-- Patrick Hege H-Soz-Kult, H-Net Reviews

"Explores a variety of texts—didactic booklets aimed at young women, pulp fiction novellas, and song lyrics . . . A notable strength of the book is its treatment of these sources not only as reflective and productive of a particular moral imagination but also as inextricably entangled in the making of material gender positionalities through the material and reputational economies involved in the creation of these texts. . . . A valuable contribution to the historiography of this well-studied city [Dar es Salaam] and its inhabitants."

-- Leander Schneider American Historical Review

"Callaci has provided an excellent exploration of a crucial aspect of Tanzanian history and urban studies, and in the process, she creates a model for scholars seeking a broad understanding of African city dwellers and communities. This volume will be valuable reading for upper division students as well as graduate students and scholars in history, African Studies, post-socialist studies, urban studies, qualitative sociology, and anthropology."

-- Anne S. Lewinson International Journal of African Historical Studies

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Chapter 1 TANU, African Socialism, and the City Idea Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	18
Chapter 2 “All Alone in the Big City” Elite W omen, “Working Girls,” and Struggles over Domesticity, Reproduction, and Urban Space Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	59
Chapter 3 Dar after Dark Dance, Desire, and Conspicuous Consumption in Dar es Salaam’s Nightlife Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	102
Chapter 4 Lovers and Fighters Pulp-F iction Publishing and the Transformation of Urban Masculinity Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	141
Chapter 5 From Socialist to Street-Smart A Changing Urban Lexicon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	180
Conclusion Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	207
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	215
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	253
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	277

Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 296
Illustrations
- Other: 16 illustrations

eBook

Published: October 24, 2017
ISBN: 9780822372325