Space of Transformation
Drawing on a wide range of archives, historical publications, oral history, graphic, audiovisual and web sources, Geert Castryck presents Kigoma-Ujiji as both shaping and being shaped by global transformations. On the surface, the book offers almost two centuries of urban history on Lake Tanganyika...
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2026
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| description | Drawing on a wide range of archives, historical publications, oral history, graphic, audiovisual and web sources, Geert Castryck presents Kigoma-Ujiji as both shaping and being shaped by global transformations. On the surface, the book offers almost two centuries of urban history on Lake Tanganyika in western Tanzania, close to the Burundian and Congolese borders, in a place that has been a transport hub throughout that time. Beneath the surface, it is also about major transformations on a global scale, and about people dealing with and coping with these global challenges far from the supposed global powerhouses. Urbanization and infrastructure, colonization and decolonization, liberalization and democratization, war refugees, world heritage and translocal identities are the entry points for interpreting transformations that are local and global at the same time. The author uses the analytical categories of "liminal space" and "portal of globalization" to link the marginality and uncertainty that characterize the successive transformations in Kigoma-Ujiji with the urban resilience and creativity used to manage these transformations. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1761332026-06-04T08:15:36Z Space of Transformation Castryck, Geert Globalgeschichte Kigoma-Ujiji Tansania Ost- und Zentralafrika Stadtgeschichte thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHH African history thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHB General and world history Drawing on a wide range of archives, historical publications, oral history, graphic, audiovisual and web sources, Geert Castryck presents Kigoma-Ujiji as both shaping and being shaped by global transformations. On the surface, the book offers almost two centuries of urban history on Lake Tanganyika in western Tanzania, close to the Burundian and Congolese borders, in a place that has been a transport hub throughout that time. Beneath the surface, it is also about major transformations on a global scale, and about people dealing with and coping with these global challenges far from the supposed global powerhouses. Urbanization and infrastructure, colonization and decolonization, liberalization and democratization, war refugees, world heritage and translocal identities are the entry points for interpreting transformations that are local and global at the same time. The author uses the analytical categories of "liminal space" and "portal of globalization" to link the marginality and uncertainty that characterize the successive transformations in Kigoma-Ujiji with the urban resilience and creativity used to manage these transformations. 2026-05-01T05:55:33Z 2026-05-01T05:55:33Z 2026-04-30T09:48:35Z 2025 book ONIX_20260429T161216_9783111436630_2 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/112740 9783111436630 9783111436616 9783111436623 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/176133 eng Africa in Global History open access De Gruyter De Gruyter Oldenbourg af2fbfcc-ee87-43d8-a035-afb9d7eef6a5 Universität Leipzig d73c3d08-9f7b-4986-9bad-8fa42982ca37 9783111436630 9783111436616 9783111436623 De Gruyter Oldenbourg 281 Basel/Berlin/Boston [...] open access |
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